Talk:United States Second Fleet

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Nice note about what it does in peacetime. I assume that in wartime it, er, breaks things and kills people? Buckshot06 05:10, 24 October 2006 (UTC)


 * Not exactly, more like provides communications, command and control to help fighting forces not break the wrong things and kill the wrong people.Tovias 12:48, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
 * I didn't mean the Fleet headquarters and its C3 function. I mean the whole force, incorporating within its various task forces men, women, ships, submarines and aircraft. I very much hope they retain their capability to 'break things and kill people'. Buckshot06 12:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

What in the world are "38 million square miles of ocean"?
Are 38 million mi² equal to 98 Mm², or are they 130 Mm²? The differences between statute and nautical miles are magnified when you square them. Gene Nygaard 21:26, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

Quick insert about Eighth Fleet:Sandbox
'Eighth Fleet, established 15 March 1943 from Northwest African Force, operated in the Mediterranean Sea during World War II with a main mission of amphibious warfare. At the outset of the War the forces that eventually evolved into US Eighth Fleet were designated Amphibious Forces, Atlantic Fleet, and later United States Forces North-West African Waters. Under the command of Admiral H. Kent Hewitt, the Fleet supported landings in Sicily and at Salerno, the first sustained land assault and invasion of the European mainland in World War II. Eighth Fleet supported the August 1944 landing of Allied troops on the coast of southern France with heavy naval gunfire and aircraft attack. With the reorganization of the Navy after World War II in December 1945, Eighth Fleet was reactivated on 01 March 1946 under the command of Admiral Marc A. Mitscher.' Source:http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/navy/unit/fleet_n.htm

New crest
http://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=106814

Please insert if possible.

Sammartinlai (talk) 15:37, 23 August 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ Done. - the WOLF  child  20:19, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

CSIS video
https://www.csis.org/events/maritime-security-dialogue-return-great-power-competition-and-second-fleet-vadm-andrew-woody

The Commander explaining the new 2nd Fleet. Video only.

Sammartinlai (talk) 13:44, 29 November 2018 (UTC)

Reestablishment
I shifted the section out of history to a higher section as it is recent news and prominent.

BlueD954 (talk) 02:53, 20 March 2019 (UTC)