The USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker is sponsored by CNA.
These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of Jan. 29, 2018, based on Navy and public data. In cases where a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, the map reflects the location of the capital ship.

Total U.S. Navy Battle Force:

280

Ships Underway

Ships Deployed by Fleet

In the Eastern Pacific

The America Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) – which deployed July 10, 2017, from San Diego, Calif. – is headed east for the final drive home. USS America (LHA-6) stopped in Pearl Harbor on Wednesday and Thursday and picked up friends and family of the sailors and Marines for a Tiger Cruise. They departed Hawaii on Friday and will return home to San Diego later this week.

Other ships in the ARG are amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD-52) and amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego (LPD-22).

Aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) got underway from San Diego on Jan. 26 for training in the Southern California Operating Area.

In the Western Pacific

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is in port in Yokosuka, Japan, for a maintenance availability. Reagan hosted Adm. James Caldwell, director of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. During his visit, Caldwell had an opportunity to see Reagan sailors work during the availability and hold discussions on the future of nuclear power in the service.

The Wasp Expeditionary Strike Group is in port in Sasebo, Japan.

“The amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) departed Sasebo, Japan, on Jan. 23, to conduct its second day of a Readiness for Sea Assessment following the completion of a four-month in-port maintenance period. The assessment, which requires a day of at-sea operations, takes place in advance of a regularly scheduled patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations,” said a statement from the service.

The Bonhomme Richard deployment is expected to be the beginning of the ship’s return transit to the United States.

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group (CSG) has now entered into the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations.

Carrier Strike Group 1

Aircraft carrier:
USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), homeported in San Diego, Calif.

Carrier Air Wing 2

CVW 2 is embarked aboard Carl Vinson and includes nine squadrons and detachments:

• The “Bounty Hunters” of Strike Fighter Squadrons (VFA) 2 from Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif.
• The “Blue Blasters” of VFA-34 from Naval Air Station Oceania, Va.
• The “Kestrels” of VFA-137 from Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif.
• The “Golden Dragons” of VFA-192 from Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif.
• The “Gauntlets” of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 136 from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash.
• The “Black Eagles” of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 113 from Naval Air Station Point Mugu, Calif.
• The “Providers” of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 30 from Naval Air Station North Island, Calif.
• The “Black Knights” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4 from Naval Air Station North Island, Calif.
• The “Blue Hawks” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM 78) from Naval Air Station North Island, Calif.

Destroyer Squadron 1
The leadership of DESRON 1 is embarked aboard Carl Vinson and commands the CSG’s guided-missile destroyers.

• USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG-108), homeported in San Diego, Calif.
• USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112), homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Guided-missile Cruiser
USS Lake Champlain (CG-57), homeported in San Diego, Calif.

While USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) is tied-up in maintenance, the Vinson Strike Group is pinch-hitting in the Western Pacific on a short deployment one year after previously operating in the region.

Plans are in works for a U.S. aircraft carrier to make a port call in Vietnam for the first time since end of the Vietnam War, defense officials announced on Thursday. Pending approval from Vietnamese officials, Vinson will make a port visit to Da Nang in March as part of its current deployment to the Western Pacific.

“While the U.S. has sent several destroyers on port visits to Vietnam and conducted limited training with the Vietnam People’s Navy, the arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier will be largest American military presence in the country since the U.S. withdrawal for the Vietnam War in 1975,” reported USNI News last week.
“The port visit was one of several topics discussed during a Thursday meeting in Hanoi between Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Vietnam Minister of National Defense Ngo Xuan Lich.”

In the Persian Gulf

The Theodore Roosevelt CSG is in Manama, Bahrain. The CSG has been conducting air strikes in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. The U.S. airstrikes also intend to maintain pressure on the Taliban throughout the winter period.

Carrier Strike Group 9

Aircraft carrier:
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), homeported in San Diego, Calif.

Carrier Air Wing 17
CVW 17 is embarked aboard Theodore Roosevelt and includes nine squadrons and detachments:

• The “Stingers” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 113 from Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif.
• The “Mighty Shrikes” of VFA-94 from Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif.
• The “Redcocks” of VFA-22 from Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif.
• The “Checkerboards” of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 312 from Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, S.C.
• The “Cougars” of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 139 from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash.
• The “Sun Kings” of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 116 from Naval Air Station Point Mugu, Calif.
• The “Providers” of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 30 from Naval Air Station North Island, Calif.
• The “Indians” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 6 from Naval Air Station North Island, Calif.
• The “Battlecats” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 73 from Naval Air Station North Island, Calif.

Destroyer Squadron 23
The leadership of DESRON 23 is embarked aboard Theodore Roosevelt and commands the CSG’s guided-missile destroyers.

• USS Sampson (DDG-102), homeported in Everett, Wash.
• USS Preble (DDG-88), homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
• USS Halsey (DDG-97), homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Guided-missile Cruiser
USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), homeported in San Diego, Calif.

In the Western Atlantic

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) is conducting training in the Virginia Capes Operating Areas.

In addition to these major formations, not shown are thousands of others serving in submarines, individual surface ships, aircraft squadrons, SEALs, Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Forces, Coast Guard cutters and more serving throughout the globe.