A submarine base was built on the island of Sazan near Vlorë, posing a possible threat to the United States ' Sixth Fleet.

Under long-standing bilateral agreements flowing from NATO membership, Italy hosts important U. S. military forces at Vicenza – home of 173d Airborne Brigade – and Livorno ( USA ); Aviano ( USAF ); and Sigonella, Nisida, and Gaeta – home port for the U. S. Navy Sixth Fleet.

The NATO subheadquarters in Malta was closed at the request of the government, and the U. S. Sixth Fleet discontinued recreational visits to the country.

The larger, newer bunker was built from 1979 to 1986 and acted as a command post for the Sixth Flotilla, stationed on Bug, and the Baltic Fleet ( VOF ).

He commanded the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean during the Arab-Israeli War of 1973 and the Cyprus crisis of 1974.

Murphy's son, Vice Admiral Daniel J. Murphy, Jr., later also commanded the Sixth Fleet, from 1998 to 2000.

Thus, the third task unit of the fifth task group of the second task force of the Sixth Fleet would be numbered 62. 5. 3.

His next assignment was commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Group Eight in Norfolk, Virginia ; he served as a carrier battle group commander embarked in USS Saratoga ( CV-60 ), and also as commander, Battle Force Sixth Fleet in 1987.

* Sixth Fleet ( disambiguation )

The chain of command for Operation Blue Bat was as follows: the Eisenhower administration at the strategic level ; Specified Command, Middle East ( SPECCOMME, a ' double-hat ' for Commander in Chief, U. S. Naval Forces, Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean ) at the operational level ; the Sixth Fleet, with aircraft carriers Saratoga, Essex, and Wasp, cruisers Des Moines and, and two squadrons of destroyers.

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The Sixth Fleet is the United States Navy's operational fleet and staff of United States Naval Forces Europe.

The Sixth Fleet is headquartered at Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy.

The officially stated mission of the Sixth Fleet in 2011 is that it ' conducts the full range of Maritime Operations and Theater Security Cooperation missions in concert with coalition, joint, interagency and other parties in order to advance security and stability in Europe and Africa.

' The commander of the Sixth Fleet is Vice Admiral Frank Craig Pandolfe.

The Sixth Fleet was established in February 1950 by redesignation of the former Sixth Task Fleet.

The title of Naval Forces Mediterranean was changed to Commander Sixth Task Fleet and then, in 1950, Commander, Sixth Fleet.

It was conducted by Naval Striking and Support Forces Southern Europe ( STRIKFORSOUTH ), commanded by Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown, USN, who also commanded the Sixth Fleet.

STRIKEFORSOUTH was effectively the NATO designation for the U. S. Sixth Fleet, though additional NATO headquarters personnel would eventually be assigned, while maintaining American control over its nuclear weapons on board U. S. aircraft carrier as mandated by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.

Although part of USASOS, ASCOM operated under the control of Sixth Army, moving as far forward as combat operations allowed, developed new bases, and operated them until USASOS was ready to take over, at which point the units under ASCOM simply reverted back to USASOS, allowing a seamless transfer of command.

Sixth Fleet has consisted of up to 40 ships, 175 aircraft and 21, 000 people, such as in early 2003, when two carrier battlegroups operated in the Mediterranean in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Since that time, the 14th Street – Canarsie Line service has operated as it is today, except for an extension from Sixth Avenue to Eighth Avenue, which opened in 1931 to connect to the new Eighth Avenue Subway.

Roby is the location of Roby Sixth Form College, which is operated by Knowsley Community College.

For example, a black physician had an office in the 300 block of East Sixth, and several businesses on the north side of the 400 and 500 blocks were operated by blacks and catered to Austin's black community.

The Grand Street Shuttle ( black ) was a New York City Subway service that operated during the long Manhattan Bridge rehabilitation project while the north tracks ( connecting to the IND Sixth Avenue Line via the Chrystie Street Connection ) were closed.

Students are able to continue their education beyond the age of sixteen in the school's co-educational Sixth Form operated jointly with Marling School.

Sixth Avenue ( formerly " Marlowe's Tavern, a dark, narrow barroom on a seedy stretch ") opened in 1983 and operated until May 2003, with mostly indie and punk rock bands performing.

Also operated transport routes to Havana, ( Cuba ); Nassau, ( Bahamas ); and Sixth Air Force Caribbean lend-lease bases, and to Panama and Puerto Rico.

* 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.

* February 18 – Sixth Crusade: Frederick II signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.

At the Sixth Congress, Zhou delivered a long speech insisting that conditions in China were not favorable for immediate revolution, and that the main task of the CCP should be to develop revolutionary momentum by winning over the support of the masses in the countryside and establishing a Soviet regime in southern China, similar to the one that Mao Zedong and Zhu De were already establishing around Jiangxi.

Historians attribute the success of the Canadian Corps in capturing the ridge to a mixture of technical and tactical innovation, meticulous planning, powerful artillery support and extensive training, as well as the failure of the German Sixth Army to properly apply the new German defensive doctrine.

Philippus was overthrown in June 713 and his successor, Anastasius II had exarch Scholasticus deliver to the Pope a letter affirming his support for the Sixth General Council.

After consulting with their support base, the Zapatistas ' issued the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle.

A local organization called the People's Front in Defense of the Land ( FPDT ), which adheres to the Sixth Declaration, called in support from other regional and national adherent organizations.

The responsibility to take Stalingrad was given to the Sixth Army, which immediately turned towards the Volga River and began its advance with heavy air support from the Luftwaffe's Luftflotte 4.

Red Sea expeditions crossing the Red Sea and heading south to Punt are mentioned in the Fifth dynasty of Egypt, the Sixth dynasty of Egypt, the Eleventh dynasty of Egypt, the Twelfth dynasty of Egypt and the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt when Hatshepsut built a fleet to support the trade and journeyed south to Punt herself in a six-month voyage.

The Sixth Fleet provided military, logistical and humanitarian assistance to support NATO operations in Kosovo from the beginning of Operation Allied Force.

:* By 1964 the LSSP's leadership abandoned the party's longstanding opposition to the SLFP, completing a political turn it had attempted in 1960, until the Sixth World Congress condemned the LSSP for offering support to the SLFP.

The Sixth Fleet commander, typically a 3-Star US Navy Vice-Admiral, has operational control of Naval task forces, battle groups, amphibious forces, support ships, land-based surveillance aircraft, and submarines in the Mediterranean Sea.

After Li Lisan ’ s adventurism and the failed Changsha operation of June 1930 lost Li the support of the Party, Kang moved adroitly to align himself with the Comintern ’ s new favorite, Wang Ming, and Pavel Mif ’ s young students from Sun Yat-sen University, later known as the 28 Bolsheviks, who took control of the Party Politburo at the Fourth Plenum of the Sixth Central Committee on January 13, 1931.

Sixth Form Organ Scholarships are even awarded, to support the large Chapel Choir and choristership scheme.

He was to support von Reichenau's German Sixth Army in Belgium and Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist's XXXXI and XIX Corps.

Richthofen provided direct and indirect support to the German Sixth Army, in particular, to Erich Hoepner's XVI Army Corps, part of the Sixth Army.

The same applies to the amount research support grants received in the framework of EU ’ s Sixth and Seventh Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development.

After some initial support, there was widespread opposition to the Sixth Schedule council, led by leaders like Madan Tamang of ABGL.

Sixth form colleges take responsibility for their own employment, pensions and pay arrangements with the support and advice of the Sixth Form College Forum ( SFCF ).

Trường Chinh came to be receptive to reformists and gradually sided with them after visits to the countryside in 1983, amidst the critical economic conditions facing Vietnam at the time, support Nguyễn Văn Linh ; nevertheless, he was replaced by Nguyễn Văn Linh at the Sixth Party Congress in December 1986, part of a sweeping leadership change that marked the beginning of the Đổi mới ( Renovation ) period.

He was awarded the honorary title of " The Sixth Stone " for his early support of the Stones.