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U.S. Atlantic Fleet (COMLANTFLT) and renamed COMLANTFLT to Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (COMUSFLTFORCOM), ordered to carry out the missions currently performed by COMFLTFORCOM and COMLANTFLT and serve as primary advocate for fleet personnel, training, requirements, maintenance, and operational issues, reporting administratively directly to the CNO. All forces previously reporting to COMLANTFLT or COMFLTFORCOM now report to COMUSFLTFORCOM. On Oct. 31, 2006, a ceremony was held to officially mark the transition of the United States Atlantic Fleet and Fleet Forces Command to the United States Fleet Forces Command. Three of the 37 previous admirals who held the top post in the Atlantic Fleet attended the ceremony, held aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), then homeported at Naval Station Norfolk. The command is henceforth known as Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command. The U.S. Atlantic Fleet’s mission was to provide fully trained, combat-ready forces to support United States and NATO commanders in regions of conflict throughout the world. The mission of the command expanded when it became USFLTFORCOM. The mission of USFLTFORCOM is to organize, man, train, and equip naval forces for assignment to Unified Command Combatant commanders; to deter, detect, and defend against homeland maritime threats; and to articulate Fleet warfighting and readiness requirements to the Chief of Naval Operations. In 2012, USFLTFORCOM also became the naval component commander for U.S. Northern Command, responsible for all U.S. Navy operational and training matters under Commander, U.S. Northern Command. Can you give a sense of the size and scale of the Navy presence in Hampton Roads? Out of 272 deployable ships and submarines in the Navy, 65 are
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