5th Fleet Focus: Order of Battle

Order of Battle in the 5th Fleet Area of Responsibility.

The Enterprise Carrier Strike Group

USS Enterprise (CVN 65)
USS Gettysburg (CG 64)
USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51)
USS Stout (DDG 55)
USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98)
USS James E. Williams (DDG 95)
USS Philadelphia (SSN 690)


Task Force 150

FGS Augsburg (F 213)
FS Commandant Ducuing (F795)
FS La Motte Picquet (D645)
PNS Tariq (D 181)
USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41)

In Theater

Ocean 6
USS Wasp (LHD 1)
RSS Persistence (L 209)
HMS Richmond (F 239)
HMS Campbeltown (F 86)
HMAS Anzac (F 150)
USS Scout (MCM 8)
USS Gladiator (MCM 11)
USS Ardent (MCM 12)
USS Dexterous (MCM 13)
HMS Ramsay (M 110)
HMS Blyth (M 111)


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Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group

USS Kearsarge (LHD 3)
USS Ponce (LPD 15)
USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44)
USS Vicksburg (CG 69)
USS Porter (DDG 78)
USS Carr (FFG 52)
USS Miami (SSN 755)


Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2)

TCG Orucreis (F245)
HMS Northumberland (F238)
NMM Aliseo (F574)
HS Aegeon (F460)
SPS Canarias (F86)
FGS Rhoen (A1443)
USS Laboon (DDG 58)


The official location of SNMG2 remains unknown. The USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) is being directed to the 7th Fleet area of operations to assist in the disaster in Bangladesh due to the recent cyclone. It is unclear which ships of the strike group are going to Bangladesh.

Over the next several days there will be a number of new ships entering the 5th Fleet Area of Operation. The French, Australians, British, Canadians. and US all have new forces at sea heading to the region as part of the next series of scheduled rotations and regional responses to piracy issues.