America's Strategic Presence in the Pacific
Commander, Navy Region Hawaii is tasked to support our Navy’s ships, submarines and aircraft as well as the Sailors who operate them and their families.
This support involves port and housekeeping services for the 29 surface ships and submarines homeported at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, as well as 36 operational aircraft stationed at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe.
Navy Region Hawaii oversees the U.S. Navy’s largest and most strategic island base in the Pacific. The Navy region extends over 23,000 acres of land and water on Oahu and Kauai and serves as the host for the headquarters of seven major Navy commands, including the Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Commander Navy.
Ships, Submarines & Aircraft
This page contains links to and information about the surface ships, submarines and aircraft squadrons homeported in Hawaii.
Commander, Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific
Ships
- USS Chosin (CG-65)
- USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53)
- USS Port Royal (CG 73)
- Destroyer Squadron Thirty One
- USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93)
- USS Hopper (DDG 70)
- USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60)
- USS Preble (DDG 88)
- USS O'Kane (DDG 77)
- USS Chafee (DDG 90)
- USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112)
- USS Halsey (DDG 97)
Submarines
Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet
Commander, Submarine Squadron 1 (COMSUBRON One)
- USS Bremerton (SSN 698)
- USS Jacksonville (SSN 699)
- USS Charlotte (SSN 766)
- USS Greeneville (SSN 772)
- USS Texas (SSN 775)
- USS Hawaii (SSN 776)
- USS North Carolina (SSN 777)
- USS Buffalo (SSN 715)
- USS Mississippi (SSN 782)
Commander, Submarine Squadron 7 (COMSUBRON Seven)
- USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705)
- USS Houston (SSN 713)
- USS Olympia (SSN 717)
- USS Louisville (SSN 724)
- USS Columbus (SSN 762)
- USS Santa Fe (SSN 763)
- USS Tucson (SSN 770)
- USS Columbia (SSN 771)
- USS Cheyenne (SSN 773)
Aircraft
Commander, Patrol and Reconnaissance Wing Two
- VP 9 (Patrol Squadron 9)
- VP 47 (Patrol Squadron 47)
- VPU 2 (Patrol Special Projects Unit 2)
- VP 4 (Patrol Squadron 4)
- HSM 37 (Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 37)
Commander, Naval Surface Group, Middle Pacific
Commander Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific is a U.S. Navy command responsible for maintenance and training of the surface ships homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
Commander Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific is subordinate to Commander Naval Surface Force Pacific located in San Diego, California, for administrative matters, and Commander Third Fleet for operational matters. Its mission is to prepare these ships for forward deployed fleet operations. Commander Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific also provides administrative support to the family members of our sailors.
The COMNAVSURFGRU MIDPAC Staff commands assigned surface combatant, auxiliary, fleet support, and special warfare forces; exercises operational control of forces not assigned to other commanders; and maintains all ships, special forces, and staffs of the Group in an optimum state of training, readiness, discipline, and morale in order to maintain their maximum readiness for sustained combat operations at sea.
