abstract:The United States Pacific Fleet (USPACFLT) is a Pacific Ocean theater-level component command of the United States Navy that provides naval forces to the United States Pacific Command. Fleet headquarters is at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, with large secondary facilities at North Island, San Diego Bay on the Mainland.
James "Ace" Lyons, former Commander in Chief of the PacificFleet, both recently told the UnitedStates Naval Institute about contingency plans they prepared to support the United Kingdom during the 1982 Falklands War.
When Hitler controlled a continent and fascism appeared unstoppable, when our harbor was bombed and our Pacificfleet crippled, there were those that declared that the UnitedStates had been reduced to a third-class power.