5th Fleet Focus: Order of Battle

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

The Truman Carrier Strike Group

USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75)
USS San Jacinto (CG 56)
USS Hue City (CG 66)
USS Carney (DDG 64)
USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79)
USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81)
HMS Manchester (D95)
HMCS Charlottetown (FFH 339)
USNS Artic (T-AOE 8)
USS Montpelier (SSN 765)


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)


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)


Task Force 150

FGS Augsburg (F 213)
FS Guepratte (F714)
FS Commandant Ducuing (F795)
FS Premier Maitre L'Her (F792)
PNS Tariq (D 181)
PNS Babur (D 182)
PNS Tippu Sultan (D 185)
USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41)


In Theater

Ocean 6
USS Wasp (LHD 1)
RSS Persistence (L 209)
HMS Campbeltown (F 86)
HMAS Anzac (FFH 150)
HMAS Arunta (FFH 151)
USS Scout (MCM 8)
USS Gladiator (MCM 11)
USS Ardent (MCM 12)
USS Dexterous (MCM 13)
HMS Ramsay (M 110)
HMS Blyth (M 111)


Notes: Expect the Enterprise CSG to depart the region this week, the Enterprise CSG is expected to be home by Christmas. The French have added frigates and rotated the Motte-Picquet out. The Motte-Picquet was reported to have suffered a fire departing the region, 1 sailor injured. The French increase is specific to help the UN ships off Somalia deliver food (tons of great insights here). The Australians are currently in the middle of a rotation, which is the reason for two ships in theater. The British rotation has completed, the Richmond is on her way home. Finally, the Kearsarge is assisting the cyclone recovery and not technically in the region, while the Tarawa ESG has been diverted to stop in the Cyclone hit area while in route to the Gulf, so its arrival will be later than originally expected.

All in all, the reasons for the higher than usual numbers of ships is because of regular rotations being done by several nations most of which are occurring at around the same few week period of time. This is intentional to insure the sailors are home by the new year.