Tenant Commands

AFLOAT TRAINING GROUP MAYPORT
Afloat Training Group Mayport (ATGM) provides dynamic, quality training to Navy and Coast Guard Sailors to ensure forces are proficient in maritime missions. ATGM receives surface force training direction and guidance from COMNAVSURFOR via COMNAVSURFLANT and ATG Atlantic, and its primary customers are ships' commanding officers and their Immediate Superiors in Command (ISICs). ATGM trains ships' training teams and crews in establishing and maintaining required operational capabilities and continuous training requirements to increase war-fighting competence and effectively accomplish missions. They train Sailors in organizing, training, assessing and certifying engineering, damage control, combat systems, navigation, seamanship, aviation, anti-terrorism/ force protection and medical training teams. ATGM primarily assists Sailors by increasing combat readiness throughout the unit level training phase, although it also trains and assesses Sailors in the integrated and sustainment training phases. ATGM also conducts search and rescue swimmer training and evaluations, visit board search and seizure training,Monthly In port Training Exercises and surface warfare junior officer training. When necessary, training teams travel out of homeport to conduct scheduled and emergent training and assessments resulting from real world commitments.

U.S. FOURTH FLEET
U.S. Fourth Fleet is the numbered fleet assigned to U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command to execute their mission in the U.S. Southern Command area of focus. Fourth Fleet conducts several exercises and deployments in the region throughout the year, including: Continuing Promise, a humanitarian assistance deployment which provides healthcare, civic assistance, training, and conducts community relations with nations in the region; Southern Partnership Station, a deployment utilizing a variety of platforms to provide training and information-sharing; Southern Seas, an annual deployment focusing on partnership building and conducts a variety of Theatre Security Cooperation events to ensure maritime security in the region; UNITAS, the longest-running maritime exercise, conducted annually to promote interoperability among partner nations throughout the region; and PANAMAX, largest multi-national maritime exercise, conducted annually and focuses on interoperability of an international force to protect the Panama Canal.
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