U.S. 3rd Fleet Shifts Command Hub to Hawaii as Vinson CSG, Air Wing Join Global
From news.usni.org
2021-08-10 19:13:00
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San Diego-based U.S. 3rd Fleet relocated its command-and-control hub to Hawaii to support the Navy’s Large Scale Exercise 2021 and join an integrated exercise that’s combining live ships, including the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), and new technologies with simulated forces designed to synchronize the joint force.
Third Fleet staff set up shop in an expeditionary maritime operations center at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam that was raised over three days with help from Joint Mobile Ashore Support Team Pacific, officials said. The EMOC – a series of large, air-conditioned tents housing command-and-control systems – is serving as the fleet’s forward-based headquarters during LSE 21, which began Aug. 3 and runs through Aug. 16.
“The power of 3rd Fleet is our ability to integrate warfighters, command battlespace, fight and win,” Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Steve Koehler said in a statement. “We go where the fight takes us, and we maintain the warfighting advantage through our ability to solve problems and innovate in the middle of that fight. We can do that from a tent ashore, a ship in the Pacific or anywhere else there is a need.”
