ComSubPac

Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet
COMSUBPAC Emblem
Active	1914-Present
Country	United States of America
Type	Type Commander
Garrison/HQ	Pearl Harbor
Commanders
Current commander	Rear Admiral Frank Caldwell Jr.[1]

Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet is the principal advisor to the Commander, United States Pacific Fleet for submarine matters. The Pacific Submarine Force (SUBPAC) includes attack, ballistic missile and auxiliary submarines, submarine tenders, floating submarine docks, deep submergence vehicles and submarine rescue vehicles throughout the Pacific.

The Force provides anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface ship warfare, precision land strike, mine warfare, intelligence, surveillance and early warning and special warfare capabilities to the U.S. Pacific and strategic deterrence capabilities to the U.S. Strategic Command.^[2]

Mission

Provide the training, logistical plans, manpower and operational plans and support and tactical development necessary to maintain the ability of the Force to respond to both peacetime and wartime demands.^[3]

Submarines and Units

These are the submarines and related units reporting to COMSUBPAC. ^[4]

Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

Commander, Submarine Squadron 1 (COMSUBRON One)

• USS Bremerton (SSN 698)
• USS La Jolla (SSN 701)
• USS Charlotte (SSN 766)
• USS Greeneville (SSN 772)
• USS Texas (SSN 775)
• USS Hawaii (SSN 776)

Commander, Submarine Squadron 3 (COMSUBRON Three)

• USS Jacksonville (SSN 699)
• USS Olympia (SSN 717)
• USS Chicago (SSN 721)
• USS Key West (SSN 722)
• USS Louisville (SSN 724)

Commander, Submarine Squadron 7 (COMSUBRON Seven)

• USS Pasadena (SSN 752)
• USS Columbus (SSN 762)
• USS Santa Fe (SSN 763)
• USS Tucson (SSN 770)
• USS Columbia (SSN 771)
• USS Cheyenne (SSN 773)

Bangor, Washington

Commander, Submarine Group 9 (COMSUBGRU Nine)

Commander, Submarine Squadron 17 (COMSUBRON Seventeen)

• USS Henry M. Jackson (SSBN 730)
• USS Alabama (SSBN 731)
• USS Nevada (SSBN 733)
• USS Kentucky (SSBN 737)
• USS Nebraska (SSBN 739)
• USS Maine (SSBN 741)
• USS Louisiana (SSBN 743)

Commander, Submarine Squadron 19 (COMSUBRON Nineteen)

• USS Ohio (SSGN 726)
• USS Michigan (SSGN 727)
• USS Pennsylvania (SSBN 735)

Commander, Submarine Development Squadron 5 (COMSUBDEVRON Five)

• USS Seawolf (SSN 21)
• USS Connecticut (SSN 22)
• USS Jimmy Carter (SSN 23)
• Deep Submergence Unit

San Diego, California

Commander, Submarine Squadron 11 (COMSUBRON Eleven)

• USS Albuquerque (SSN 706)
• USS San Francisco (SSN 711)
• USS Helena (SSN 725)
• USS Topeka (SSN 754)
• USS Asheville (SSN 758)
• USS Jefferson City (SSN 759)
• USS Hampton (SSN 767)
• USS Arco (ARDM 5)

Guam

Commander, Submarine Squadron 15 (COMSUBRON Fifteen)

• USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705)
• USS Houston (SSN 713)
• USS Buffalo (SSN 715)
• USS Frank Cable (AS 40)

VA Beach, Virginia

• Commander, Undersea Surveillance
• NOPF Whidbey Island, WA
• IOSC Little Creek

Officers Serving as COMSUBPAC

The following is an incomplete list:

• Rear Admiral Wilhelm Lee Friedell, 1939–1941
• Rear Admiral Thomas Withers, Jr., 1941–May 1942
• Rear Admiral Robert H. English, May 1942–20 January 1943 (killed in an aircraft accident)
• Captain John H. "Babe" Brown (pro tem), 20 Jan 1943–1943
• Rear Admiral Charles A. Lockwood, 1943–1946
• Rear Admiral Allan R. McCann, 1946–1948
• Rear Admiral Oswald S. Colclough, 1948–1949
• Rear Admiral John H. "Babe" Brown, 1949–1951
• Rear Admiral Charles B. "Swede" Momsen, 1951–1953
• Rear Admiral George L. Russell, 1953–1955
• Rear Admiral Leon J. Huffman, 1955–1956
• Rear Admiral Elton W. "Joe" Grenfell, 1956–1959^†
• Rear Admiral William E. "Pete" Ferrall, 1959–1960^†
• Rear Admiral Roy S. "Ensign" Benson, 1960–1962^†
• Rear Admiral Bernard A. "Chick" Clarey, 1962–1964^†
• Rear Admiral Eugene B. Fluckey, 1964–1966^†
• Rear Admiral John H. Maurer, 1966–1968^†
• Rear Admiral Walter L. Small, 1968–1970^†
• Rear Admiral Paul L. Lacy, Jr., 1970–1972 (Last WW2 submarine skipper in the job)
• Rear Admiral Frank D. McMullen, 1972–
• Rear Admiral Douglas J. McAneny, 2008-2010
• Rear Admiral James F. Caldwell, 2010 - present

^† Wartime submarine skipper

During World War II, one of the myriad submarine units in the Pacific Fleet was the Submarine Repair Training Unit, Pacific, (SubTraPac) headquartered at San Diego, California. SubTraPac was the result of a merger with Submarine Repair Unit at San Diego, California.

References

• Blair, Clay (March 2001). Silent victory: the U.S. submarine war against Japan. Naval Institute Press. ISBN 155750217X. http://books.google.com/books?id=KGjfqe6DcrEC&lpg=PA372-IA9&ots=677j4PoMIJ&dq=%22Robert%20Holmes%20Smith%22&pg=PA372-IA9#v=onepage&q=%22Robert%20Holmes%20Smith%22&f=false.  (Google books online preview)

This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

1. ^ "Pacific Submarine Force Changes Command". U.S. Navy. http://www.navy.mil/search/display.asp?story_id=57702. Retrieved 2010-12-11. 
2. ^ "COMSUBPAC About Us". U.S. Navy. http://www.csp.navy.mil/about_us.shtml. Retrieved 2010-08-22. 
3. ^ "COMSUBPAC About Us". U.S. Navy. http://www.csp.navy.mil/about_us.shtml. Retrieved 2010-08-22. 
4. ^ "COMSUBPAC Submarines". U.S. Navy. http://www.csp.navy.mil/content/comsubpac_subsquadrons.shtml. Retrieved 2010-08-22. 

See also

• ComSubLant

Links

• Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet