United States Second Fleet

United States Second Fleet
Active	February 1950 – 30 September 2011, 24 August 2018 – present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Navy
Type	Fleet
Role	Combat & Maritime Operations, Security Cooperation Activities, and Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster Response
Part of	U.S. Fleet Forces Command (COMUSFLTCOM)
Garrison/HQ	Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads, Virginia, U.S.
Commanders
Current commander	VADM Douglas G. Perry
Deputy commander	RDML Martin J. Muckian
Vice commander	RAdm David Patchell (RCN)
Command Master Chief	FORCM Jason S. Avin

The United States Second Fleet is a numbered fleet in the United States Navy responsible for operations in the East Coast and North Atlantic Ocean.^[1] Established after World War II, Second Fleet was deactivated in 2011, when the United States government believed that Russia's military threat had diminished, and reestablished in 2018 amid renewed tensions between NATO and Russia.

Second Fleet's area of responsibility includes about 6,700,000 square miles (17,000,000 km²) of the Atlantic Ocean from the North Pole to the Caribbean and from the shores of the United States to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Second Fleet's United States West Coast counterpart was United States First Fleet from the immediate post-World War II years until 1973, and United States Third Fleet from 1973.

In 2011, Second Fleet oversaw about 126 ships, 4,500 aircraft, and 90,000 personnel homeported at U.S. Navy installations along the United States East Coast.