SUBRON
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SUBRON is the United States Navy (USN) abbreviation for Submarine Squadron. A SUBRON usually consists of three or more submarines. It is the submarine force equivalent to a Destroyer Squadron or DESRON in the surface Navy. However, unlike a DESRON -- which actually moves its staff aboard its ships and deploys with them as an operational Task Element commander -- a SUBRON commander and his staff always remain in homeport, and are responsible only for the training, equipping and administering of the ships under its umbrella. A submarine squadron is usually commanded by a Captain (O-6) who has already had at least one tour as commander of a submarine.
The officer in charge of SUBRON ONE is designated Commander Submarine Squadron One or COMSUBRON ONE.
Several SUBRONs may be organized into a Submarine Group (SUBGRU), headed under a flag officer. For instance, CSS-17 and CSS-19 are both part of SUBGRU-9 in Bangor, Washington. The overall responsibility for submarines on the west coast of the United States is taken by the Commander Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMSUBPAC); on the east coast, the same responsibility rests with the Commander Submarine Force, Atlantic Fleet (COMSUBLANT). The latter is the senior of the two, and thus also plays a secondary role as Commander, Submarine Force (COMSUBFOR).
When a submarine deploys, for instance as part of a Carrier Strike Group, operational command is transferred to the numbered fleet commander for the theater to which the submarine is deploying, e.g., or Commander Fifth Fleet (COMFIFTHFLT).
[edit] List of submarine squadrons
Odd Numbered squadrons are West Coast (Pacific Fleet), Even numbered East Coast (Atlantic Fleet).
- CSS-1 Pearl Harbor, HI
- CSS-3 Pearl Harbor, HI
- CSDS-5 Bangor, WA (Submarine Development Squadron, or DEVRON 5)
- CSS-7 Pearl Harbor, HI
- CSS-11 San Diego, CA (Point Loma)
- CSS-15 Apra Harbor, Guam
- CSS-17 Bangor, WA
- CSS-19 Bangor, WA
- CSS-2 Groton, CT
- CSS-4 Groton, CT
- CSS-6 Norfolk, VA
- CSS-8 Norfolk, VA
- CSDS-12 Groton, CT (DEVRON 12)
- CSS-16 King's Bay, GA
- CSS-20 King's Bay, GA
[edit] List of submarine groups
- CSG-2 Groton, CT (Parent of CSS-2, CSS-4, CSS-6 and CSS-8)
- CSG-7 Yokosuka, Japan (Parent of CSS-15. Also functions as CTF-74 under Seventh Fleet.)
- CSG-8 Naples, Italy (Also functions as CTF-64 and CTF-69 under Sixth Fleet)
- CSG-9 Bangor, WA (Parent of CSS-17 and CSS-19.)
- CSG-10 Kings Bay, GA (Parent of CSS-16 and CSS-20.)
