United States Fleet Forces Command

The United States Fleet Forces Command (USFF)^[1] is a service command of the United States Navy that provides naval forces to a wide variety of U.S. forces.

The naval resources may be given to Combatant Commanders such as United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) under the authority of the Secretary of Defense.

In 2002, the Fleet was made-up over 118,000 Navy and Marine Corps personnel serving on 186 ships and in 1,300 aircraft, with an area of responsibility ranging over most of the Atlantic Ocean from the North Pole to the South Pole, the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and the waters of the Pacific Ocean along the coasts of Central and South America (as far west as the Galapagos Islands).

The command is based at Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads in Norfolk, Virginia.^[2]^[3]^[4]

United States Fleet Forces Command Media

Atlantic Squadron parade Seattle, 1908
President Theodore Roosevelt addresses crewmen on Connecticut, upon her return from the Fleet's cruise around the world, 22 February 1909.
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Augusta (CA-31) underway on 10 December 1942. Note that she is painted in the seldom used Camouflage Measure 17.
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The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) underway during builder's trials, April 1937.
The U.S. Navy heavy cruiser USS Vincennes (CA-44) passing through the Panama Canal on 6 January 1938, while en route to join the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Note the crewmen on her deck, watching the airplane from which the photograph was taken.