Expeditionary Strike Group SEVEN/Task Force 76 is a United States Navy task force. It is part of the United States Seventh Fleet and the USN's only permanently forward-deployed expeditionary strike group. It is based at the White Beach Naval Facility at the end of the Katsuren Peninsula in Uruma City, Okinawa, Japan.
Amphibious Ready Group Alpha with USS Princeton (LPH-5) off Vietnam, in 1968.
United States Seventh Fleet
The Seventh Fleet is a numbered fleet of the United States Navy. It is headquartered at U.S. Fleet Activities Yokosuka, in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is part of the United States Pacific Fleet. At present, it is the largest of the forward-deployed U.S. fleets, with 50 to 70 ships, 150 aircraft and 27,000 Sailors and Marines. Its principal responsibilities are to provide joint command in natural disaster or military operations and operational command of all U.S. naval forces in the region.
USS Gambier Bay (CVE-73) and escorts at the Battle off Samar in October 1944.
George Washington, Squadron HC-1 during operation "Desert Shield" in 1990, U.S. Seventh Fleet.
George Washington was flagship of Task Force 70 of the U.S. Seventh Fleet before 2017.
The USS Blue Ridge, flagship, U.S. Seventh Fleet.