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== Format ==

As originally designed in 2015, the Tenth Fleet Summit is not a single meeting but a '''series of separate sessions''' held across the convention weekend, each aimed at a different tier of the fleet — so that there is something for essentially every level of the membership:

* '''State of the Fleet Address''' — delivered by the Fleet Commanding Officer or their designated proxy, an address to take stock of where the fleet is presently by examining recent events, and setting goals for the remainder of the year until the next summit.

* '''Commanding Officers' Meeting''' — chapter commanding officers and echelon commanders meet with Fleet Staff to work through the ''how'' of executing the fleet's plan, with open questions and discussion on making things work at the chapter level in alignment with fleet direction.

* '''Senior Enlisted Meeting''' — the same format as the officers' meeting, but run by the [[FSMCPO]] specifically for bosuns, gunnies, and senior enlisted advisors. The enlisted track runs parallel to, and separate from, the officers' track.

* '''Flag Officers' Meeting''' — a smaller, more focused session for flag-rank officers and echelon command only, addressing higher-level topics such as echelon-support alignment and troubleshooting that do not need to be raised in front of the full room.

* '''Awards Ceremony''' — led by the Fleet Commanding Officer, presenting promotions, awards, and recognition for service over the previous fiscal year. It closes out the summit and sends members back to the convention floor on a positive note.

* '''Track Programming''' — panels spread throughout the convention weekend covering a myriad of topics with broad appeal (military history, the business of organized fandom, social media management, recruitment & retention) to invite non-members to discuss and engage with Fleet personnel.

In addition to these sessions, summits have hosted '''commissioning ceremonies''' for newly formed chapters and vessels — for example, {{hms|Cerberus|CLAC-42}} was commissioned at the 2015 summit.<ref name="tg">[[Task Group 91.1]] — task group history documenting the 2015 summit and its commissioning.</ref>

== Host conventions ==

Because the Tenth Fleet's [[Tenth Fleet|area of responsibility]] is geographically vast — spanning California, Oregon, Washington, and beyond — Fleet leadership (the Commanding Officer, Deputy Commanding Officer, and [[FSMCPO]]) established a practice of '''alternating the summit between northern and southern locations''' to keep travel distances equitable for the fleet's widely dispersed ships and members. Accordingly the summit rotates between '''northern''' venues in the Pacific Northwest — such as '''[[NorWesCon]]''' (SeaTac, Washington), '''[[OryCon]]''' (Portland, Oregon), and '''[[RadCon]]''' (Pasco, Washington) — and '''southern''' venues in California, principally '''[[BayCon]]''' (Santa Clara), with a nearby echelon or chapter serving as host each year.<ref name="tf">[[Tenth Fleet]] — fleet history documenting the host chapters and their home regions.</ref>

Because the Tenth Fleet's [[Tenth Fleet|area of responsibility]] is geographically vast — spanning California, Oregon, Washington, and beyond — Fleet leadership (the Commanding Officer, Deputy Commanding Officer, and [[FSMCPO]]) established a practice of '''alternating the summit between northern and southern locations''' to keep travel distances equitable for the fleet's widely dispersed ships and members. Accordingly the summit rotates between '''northern''' venues in the Pacific Northwest — such as '''[[NorWesCon]]''' (SeaTac, Washington), '''[[OryCon]]''' (Portland, Oregon), and '''[[RadCon]]''' (Pasco, Washington) — and '''southern''' venues in California, principally '''[[BayCon]]''' (Santa Clara), with a nearby echelon or chapter serving as host each year.<ref name="tf">[[Tenth Fleet]] — fleet history documenting the host chapters and their home regions.</ref> In the north the host has typically been [[Battlecruiser Squadron 96]] (SeaTac's [[NorWesCon]], 2016 and 2018) or a local chapter such as {{hms|Eardsidh Kamerling|CL-717}} ([[RadCon]], 2020); in the south, [[Task Group 91.1]] (2015, 2017, and 2019), the fleet flagship {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} (2022), and the combined crews of {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} and {{hms|Guadalcanal|LPH-02}}, which co-hosted the 2024 and 2026 summits together. No fleet summit was held in 2023, when the TRMN-wide [[MantiCon]] was co-located with [[BayCon]] and the entire fleet travelled south to attend — an event hosted by {{trmn}} as a whole, with members flying in from across the organization to help run it.

Separately, [[Task Group 91.1]] ~~held~~ its own '''Task Group 91.1 Summit''' for the task group's own members at [[BayCon]] in 2016 and 2018~~; these were distinct from the fleet-wide Tenth Fleet Summit~~. The destroyer {{hms|Chainshot|DD-372}} was commissioned at the first of these, BayCon 2016.<ref name="tg" />

Separately from the fleet-wide summit, when the summit was held in the north [[Task Group 91.1]] convened its own '''Task Group 91.1 Summit''' for the task group's own (largely California-based) members at [[BayCon]] in 2016 and 2018. The destroyer {{hms|Chainshot|DD-372}} was commissioned at the first of these, BayCon 2016.<ref name="tg" />

== Fleet exercises ==

In its earliest years the fleet styled these gatherings as a '''Fleet Exercise''' ("FleetEx") — a term the fleet's Marines borrowed from real-world naval exercises such as [[wikipedia:RIMPAC|RIMPAC]] — and documented them on dedicated event pages listing the participating and observing vessels: [[FleetEx OryCon 37]] (November 2015), [[FleetEx NorWesCon 39]] (which housed the 2016 summit), and [[FleetEx FresCon 2016]]. The FleetEx nomenclature remained in use through about 2017, after which the "Tenth Fleet Summit" name used today superseded it. The governing definitions of a '''Fleet Event''' and the now-deprecated '''Admiralty House Event''' are set out in [[Orders:Admiralty Order 1803-02]] (see [[Event]]).

== Summits by year ==

{| class="wikitable"

! Year !! Convention !! Location !! Host ~~echelon~~ !! Notable events

! Year !! Convention !! Location !! Host !! Notable events

|-

| 2015 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || [[Task Group 91.1]] || Commissioning of {{hms|Cerberus|CLAC-42}}

|-

| 2016 || [[NorWesCon]] || SeaTac, WA || ~~{{hms|Truculent|BC-593}}~~ ||

| 2016 || [[NorWesCon]] || SeaTac, WA || [[Battlecruiser Squadron 96]] || Documented as the fleet event [[FleetEx NorWesCon 39]]

|-

| 2017 || [[~~OryCon~~]] 39 || ~~Portland~~, OR || ~~—~~ ||

| 2017 || [[BayCon]] || San Mateo, CA || [[Task Group 91.1]] ||

|-

| 2019 || [[BayCon]] || ~~Santa Clara~~, CA || ~~—~~ ||

| 2018 || [[NorWesCon]] || SeaTac, WA || [[Battlecruiser Squadron 96]] ||

|-

| 2019 || [[BayCon]] || San Mateo, CA || [[Task Group 91.1]] ||

|-

| 2020 || [[RadCon]] || Pasco, WA || {{hms|Eardsidh Kamerling|CL-717}} || Held that February, before the pandemic shutdown

|-

| 2022 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || ~~—~~ ||

| 2022 || [[BayCon]] || San Mateo, CA || {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} ||

|-

| 2023 || [[MantiCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || {{trmn}} as a whole || No separate Tenth Fleet Summit; the organization-wide [[MantiCon]] co-located with [[BayCon]] served the role, with members flying in from across TRMN to help run it

|-

| 2024 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || &~~mdash~~; ||

| 2024 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} & {{hms|Guadalcanal|LPH-02}} || Jointly hosted by the two crews

|-

| 2025 || [[OryCon]] || Portland, OR || ~~—~~ ||

| 2025 || [[OryCon]] 45 || Portland, OR || [[Task Group 92.1]] ''(presumed)'' || Designated the 10th Fleet Summit by [[Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2504-02|Tenth Fleet Order 2504-02]]<ref name="tfo2504">[[Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2504-02]]</ref>

|-

| 2026 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || &~~mdash~~; || ~~Designated~~ a Flag Event by [[Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01|Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01]]<ref name="tfo2511">[[Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01]]</ref>

| 2026 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} & {{hms|Guadalcanal|LPH-02}} || Jointly hosted by the two crews; designated a Flag Event by [[Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01|Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01]]<ref name="tfo2511">[[Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01]]</ref>

|}

<small>~~Host echelons and venues for the 2018,~~ 2021, ~~and 2023 summits are not yet documented here.~~ [[BayCon]] ~~itself~~ was cancelled ~~in 2020~~ and ~~held only virtually in 2021 during~~ the pandemic; the 2020 ~~fleet~~ summit ~~was nonetheless held~~ at [[RadCon]] that February.<ref name="bc">[[BayCon]] — convention history, including the 2020 cancellation and 2021 virtual event.</ref></small>

<small>No fleet summit was held in 2021, when [[BayCon]] was cancelled/virtual and its northern conventions were likewise disrupted by the pandemic; the 2020 summit had gone ahead at [[RadCon]] that February, before the shutdown.<ref name="bc">[[BayCon]] — convention history, including the 2020 cancellation and 2021 virtual event.</ref> The BayCon-hosted summits of 2017, 2019, and 2022 were held at the San Mateo Marriott; [[BayCon]] relocated to the Santa Clara Marriott in 2023, the venue for the 2024 and 2026 summits. No host announcement has been located for the 2025 summit; it is attributed to [[Task Group 92.1]] on the basis that [[OryCon]] lies in the former area of operations of [[Battlecruiser Squadron 96]] (Oregon and Washington), now covered by Task Group 92.1 and its Battlecruiser Division 961.</small>

== References ==

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[[Category:Fleet Events]]

[[Category:Tenth Fleet]]

[[Category:Glossary]]

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 == Format ==
 As originally designed in 2015, the Tenth Fleet Summit is not a single meeting but a '''series of separate sessions''' held across the convention weekend, each aimed at a different tier of the fleet — so that there is something for essentially every level of the membership:
+* '''State of the Fleet Address''' — delivered by the Fleet Commanding Officer or their designated proxy, an address to take stock of where the fleet is presently by examining recent events, and setting goals for the remainder of the year until the next summit.
 * '''Commanding Officers' Meeting''' — chapter commanding officers and echelon commanders meet with Fleet Staff to work through the ''how'' of executing the fleet's plan, with open questions and discussion on making things work at the chapter level in alignment with fleet direction.
 * '''Senior Enlisted Meeting''' — the same format as the officers' meeting, but run by the [[FSMCPO]] specifically for bosuns, gunnies, and senior enlisted advisors. The enlisted track runs parallel to, and separate from, the officers' track.
 * '''Flag Officers' Meeting''' — a smaller, more focused session for flag-rank officers and echelon command only, addressing higher-level topics such as echelon-support alignment and troubleshooting that do not need to be raised in front of the full room.
 * '''Awards Ceremony''' — led by the Fleet Commanding Officer, presenting promotions, awards, and recognition for service over the previous fiscal year. It closes out the summit and sends members back to the convention floor on a positive note.
+* '''Track Programming''' — panels spread throughout the convention weekend covering a myriad of topics with broad appeal (military history, the business of organized fandom, social media management, recruitment & retention) to invite non-members to discuss and engage with Fleet personnel.
 In addition to these sessions, summits have hosted '''commissioning ceremonies''' for newly formed chapters and vessels — for example, {{hms|Cerberus|CLAC-42}} was commissioned at the 2015 summit.<ref name="tg">[[Task Group 91.1]] — task group history documenting the 2015 summit and its commissioning.</ref>
 == Host conventions ==
-Because the Tenth Fleet's [[Tenth Fleet|area of responsibility]] is geographically vast — spanning California, Oregon, Washington, and beyond — Fleet leadership (the Commanding Officer, Deputy Commanding Officer, and [[FSMCPO]]) established a practice of '''alternating the summit between northern and southern locations''' to keep travel distances equitable for the fleet's widely dispersed ships and members. Accordingly the summit rotates between '''northern''' venues in the Pacific Northwest — such as '''[[NorWesCon]]''' (SeaTac, Washington), '''[[OryCon]]''' (Portland, Oregon), and '''[[RadCon]]''' (Pasco, Washington) — and '''southern''' venues in California, principally '''[[BayCon]]''' (Santa Clara), with a nearby echelon or chapter serving as host each year.<ref name="tf">[[Tenth Fleet]] — fleet history documenting the host chapters and their home regions.</ref>
+Because the Tenth Fleet's [[Tenth Fleet|area of responsibility]] is geographically vast — spanning California, Oregon, Washington, and beyond — Fleet leadership (the Commanding Officer, Deputy Commanding Officer, and [[FSMCPO]]) established a practice of '''alternating the summit between northern and southern locations''' to keep travel distances equitable for the fleet's widely dispersed ships and members. Accordingly the summit rotates between '''northern''' venues in the Pacific Northwest — such as '''[[NorWesCon]]''' (SeaTac, Washington), '''[[OryCon]]''' (Portland, Oregon), and '''[[RadCon]]''' (Pasco, Washington) — and '''southern''' venues in California, principally '''[[BayCon]]''' (Santa Clara), with a nearby echelon or chapter serving as host each year.<ref name="tf">[[Tenth Fleet]] — fleet history documenting the host chapters and their home regions.</ref> In the north the host has typically been [[Battlecruiser Squadron 96]] (SeaTac's [[NorWesCon]], 2016 and 2018) or a local chapter such as {{hms|Eardsidh Kamerling|CL-717}} ([[RadCon]], 2020); in the south, [[Task Group 91.1]] (2015, 2017, and 2019), the fleet flagship {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} (2022), and the combined crews of {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} and {{hms|Guadalcanal|LPH-02}}, which co-hosted the 2024 and 2026 summits together. No fleet summit was held in 2023, when the TRMN-wide [[MantiCon]] was co-located with [[BayCon]] and the entire fleet travelled south to attend — an event hosted by {{trmn}} as a whole, with members flying in from across the organization to help run it.
-Separately, [[Task Group 91.1]] held its own '''Task Group 91.1 Summit''' for the task group's own members at [[BayCon]] in 2016 and 2018; these were distinct from the fleet-wide Tenth Fleet Summit. The destroyer {{hms|Chainshot|DD-372}} was commissioned at the first of these, BayCon 2016.<ref name="tg" />
+Separately from the fleet-wide summit, when the summit was held in the north [[Task Group 91.1]] convened its own '''Task Group 91.1 Summit''' for the task group's own (largely California-based) members at [[BayCon]] in 2016 and 2018. The destroyer {{hms|Chainshot|DD-372}} was commissioned at the first of these, BayCon 2016.<ref name="tg" />
+== Fleet exercises ==
+In its earliest years the fleet styled these gatherings as a '''Fleet Exercise''' ("FleetEx") — a term the fleet's Marines borrowed from real-world naval exercises such as [[wikipedia:RIMPAC|RIMPAC]] — and documented them on dedicated event pages listing the participating and observing vessels: [[FleetEx OryCon 37]] (November 2015), [[FleetEx NorWesCon 39]] (which housed the 2016 summit), and [[FleetEx FresCon 2016]]. The FleetEx nomenclature remained in use through about 2017, after which the "Tenth Fleet Summit" name used today superseded it. The governing definitions of a '''Fleet Event''' and the now-deprecated '''Admiralty House Event''' are set out in [[Orders:Admiralty Order 1803-02]] (see [[Event]]).
 == Summits by year ==
 {| class="wikitable"
-! Year !! Convention !! Location !! Host echelon !! Notable events
+! Year !! Convention !! Location !! Host !! Notable events
 |-
 | 2015 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || [[Task Group 91.1]] || Commissioning of {{hms|Cerberus|CLAC-42}}
 |-
-| 2016 || [[NorWesCon]] || SeaTac, WA || {{hms|Truculent|BC-593}} ||
+| 2016 || [[NorWesCon]] || SeaTac, WA || [[Battlecruiser Squadron 96]] || Documented as the fleet event [[FleetEx NorWesCon 39]]
 |-
-| 2017 || [[OryCon]] 39 || Portland, OR || &mdash; ||
+| 2017 || [[BayCon]] || San Mateo, CA || [[Task Group 91.1]] ||
 |-
-| 2019 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || &mdash; ||
+| 2018 || [[NorWesCon]] || SeaTac, WA || [[Battlecruiser Squadron 96]] ||
+|-
+| 2019 || [[BayCon]] || San Mateo, CA || [[Task Group 91.1]] ||
 |-
 | 2020 || [[RadCon]] || Pasco, WA || {{hms|Eardsidh Kamerling|CL-717}} || Held that February, before the pandemic shutdown
 |-
-| 2022 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || &mdash; ||
+| 2022 || [[BayCon]] || San Mateo, CA || {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} ||
+|-
+| 2023 || [[MantiCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || {{trmn}} as a whole || No separate Tenth Fleet Summit; the organization-wide [[MantiCon]] co-located with [[BayCon]] served the role, with members flying in from across TRMN to help run it
 |-
-| 2024 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || &mdash; ||
+| 2024 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} &amp; {{hms|Guadalcanal|LPH-02}} || Jointly hosted by the two crews
 |-
-| 2025 || [[OryCon]] || Portland, OR || &mdash; ||
+| 2025 || [[OryCon]] 45 || Portland, OR || [[Task Group 92.1]] ''(presumed)'' || Designated the 10th Fleet Summit by [[Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2504-02|Tenth Fleet Order 2504-02]]<ref name="tfo2504">[[Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2504-02]]</ref>
 |-
-| 2026 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || &mdash; || Designated a Flag Event by [[Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01|Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01]]<ref name="tfo2511">[[Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01]]</ref>
+| 2026 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} &amp; {{hms|Guadalcanal|LPH-02}} || Jointly hosted by the two crews; designated a Flag Event by [[Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01|Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01]]<ref name="tfo2511">[[Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01]]</ref>
 |}
-<small>Host echelons and venues for the 2018, 2021, and 2023 summits are not yet documented here. [[BayCon]] itself was cancelled in 2020 and held only virtually in 2021 during the pandemic; the 2020 fleet summit was nonetheless held at [[RadCon]] that February.<ref name="bc">[[BayCon]] — convention history, including the 2020 cancellation and 2021 virtual event.</ref></small>
+<small>No fleet summit was held in 2021, when [[BayCon]] was cancelled/virtual and its northern conventions were likewise disrupted by the pandemic; the 2020 summit had gone ahead at [[RadCon]] that February, before the shutdown.<ref name="bc">[[BayCon]] — convention history, including the 2020 cancellation and 2021 virtual event.</ref> The BayCon-hosted summits of 2017, 2019, and 2022 were held at the San Mateo Marriott; [[BayCon]] relocated to the Santa Clara Marriott in 2023, the venue for the 2024 and 2026 summits. No host announcement has been located for the 2025 summit; it is attributed to [[Task Group 92.1]] on the basis that [[OryCon]] lies in the former area of operations of [[Battlecruiser Squadron 96]] (Oregon and Washington), now covered by Task Group 92.1 and its Battlecruiser Division 961.</small>
 == References ==
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 [[Category:Fleet Events]]
 [[Category:Tenth Fleet]]
+[[Category:Glossary]]

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