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 Feb. 26, 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:

281

Ships Underway

Ships Deployed by Fleet

In the Western Pacific

The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is operating in the South China Sea as part of the Pacific Partnership 2018 exercises that kicked off on Feb. 23. Participating in the event is Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH-19), which will visit countries bordering the South China Sea, including Vietnam, Indonesia and Malaysia.

USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) is in the Western Pacific at a time the Navy’s only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), is moored in its homeport of Yokosuka, Japan, for a planned maintenance period that Navy officials say is expected to last a couple of months.

Plans are in the works for a U.S. aircraft carrier to make a port call in Vietnam for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War.

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.

Carrier Ronald Reagan is in port in Yokosuka, Japan, for a maintenance availability.
USS Wasp (LHD-1) is pierside in Sasebo, Japan.

The Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group is underway for a regularly scheduled patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. Bonhomme Richard ESG is in Thailand to conduct exercise Cobra Gold 18.

In the Persian Gulf

The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group (CSG) is operating in the Persian Gulf. 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 Middle Atlantic

The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which deployed on Feb. 7 from Mayport, Fla., are now in the middle Atlantic and have chopped into the U.S. 6th Fleet and European Command area of responsibility. The Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) includes amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), amphibious transport dock USS New York (LPD-21), dock landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD-51), Fleet Surgical Team (FST) 8 and FST-4, Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, Tactical Air Control Squadron (TACRON) 22, components of Naval Beach Group (NBG) 2 and the embarked staff of Amphibious Squadron 4.

In the Western Atlantic

The Truman Carrier Strike Group has been underway since Feb. 3 for composite training unit exercise (COMPTUEX), a month-long exercise designed to integrate the units of the strike group and test their ability to carry out combat operations at sea. The Truman CSG is expected to deploy this spring.

Ships and air squadrons will be tested in areas such as air warfare, strait transits and responses to surface and subsurface contacts and electronic attacks.

COMPTUEX is the final stage of pre-deployment workups for the strike group.

Carrier:

• USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)

Air Wing:
Carrier Air Wing One, embarked on Harry S. Truman

Staffs
Carrier Strike Group 8 and Destroyer Squadron 28

Guided-missile destroyers: 

• USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51)
• USS Bulkeley (DDG 84)
• USS The Sullivans (DDG-68)
• USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81)
• USS Farragut (DDG-99)
• USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109)
• USS Forrest Sherman (DDG-98)

Guided-missile cruiser: 

• USS Normandy (CG-60)

Allied Ships

• Royal Norwegian Navy frigate HNoMS Roald Amundsen (F 311)
• German Navy frigate FGS Hessen (F 221)

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.