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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, 2019) | 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 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" /> | 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 == | == Summits by year == | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
! Year !! Convention !! Location !! Host | ! Year !! Convention !! Location !! Host !! Notable events | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2015 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || [[Task Group 91.1]] || Commissioning of {{hms|Cerberus|CLAC-42}} | | 2015 || [[BayCon]] || Santa Clara, CA || [[Task Group 91.1]] || Commissioning of {{hms|Cerberus|CLAC-42}} | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2016 || [[NorWesCon]] || SeaTac, WA || [[Battlecruiser Squadron 96]] || | | 2016 || [[NorWesCon]] || SeaTac, WA || [[Battlecruiser Squadron 96]] || Documented as the fleet event [[FleetEx NorWesCon 39]] | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2017 || [[ | | 2017 || [[BayCon]] || San Mateo, CA || [[Task Group 91.1]] || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2018 || [[NorWesCon]] || SeaTac, WA || [[Battlecruiser Squadron 96]] || | | 2018 || [[NorWesCon]] || SeaTac, WA || [[Battlecruiser Squadron 96]] || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2019 || [[BayCon]] || | | 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 | | 2020 || [[RadCon]] || Pasco, WA || {{hms|Eardsidh Kamerling|CL-717}} || Held that February, before the pandemic shutdown | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2022 || [[BayCon]] || | | 2022 || [[BayCon]] || San Mateo, CA || {{hms|Medusa|SD-316}} || | ||
|- | |- | ||
| 2023 || | | 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 || & | | 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 || & | | 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>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> | <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> | ||
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Latest revision as of 23:25, 31 July 2026
| Tenth Fleet Summit | |
| Flag Event (FE) | |
| Type: | Fleet muster & annual gathering |
| Status: | Active |
| Location: | Rotating — conventions within the Tenth Fleet area of responsibility |
| When: | Annual |
| First held: | 2015 |
| Host: |  Tenth Fleet
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The Tenth Fleet Summit is the annual in-person gathering of the Tenth Fleet. Rather than being tied to a single venue, the summit is held each year at a science-fiction convention somewhere within the fleet's area of responsibility — which spans California, Oregon, and Washington — and is hosted by a local echelon or chapter. It serves as the fleet's principal muster, bringing together the crews of its member chapters for a program of meetings and ceremonies over the convention weekend.
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 was commissioned at the 2015 summit.[1]
Host conventions
Because the Tenth Fleet's 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.[2] 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 (RadCon, 2020); in the south, Task Group 91.1 (2015, 2017, and 2019), the fleet flagship HMS Medusa (2022), and the combined crews of HMS Medusa and HMS Guadalcanal, 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 The Royal Manticoran Navy: The Official Honor Harrington Fan Association, Inc. as a whole, with members flying in from across the organization to help run it.
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 was commissioned at the first of these, BayCon 2016.[1]
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 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
| Year | Convention | Location | Host | Notable events |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | BayCon | Santa Clara, CA | Task Group 91.1 | Commissioning of HMS Cerberus |
| 2016 | NorWesCon | SeaTac, WA | Battlecruiser Squadron 96 | Documented as the fleet event FleetEx NorWesCon 39 |
| 2017 | BayCon | San Mateo, CA | Task Group 91.1 | |
| 2018 | NorWesCon | SeaTac, WA | Battlecruiser Squadron 96 | |
| 2019 | BayCon | San Mateo, CA | Task Group 91.1 | |
| 2020 | RadCon | Pasco, WA | HMS Eardsidh Kamerling | Held that February, before the pandemic shutdown |
| 2022 | BayCon | San Mateo, CA | HMS Medusa | |
| 2023 | MantiCon | Santa Clara, CA | The Royal Manticoran Navy: The Official Honor Harrington Fan Association, Inc. 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 | HMS Medusa & HMS Guadalcanal | Jointly hosted by the two crews |
| 2025 | OryCon 45 | Portland, OR | Task Group 92.1 (presumed) | Designated the 10th Fleet Summit by Tenth Fleet Order 2504-02[3] |
| 2026 | BayCon | Santa Clara, CA | HMS Medusa & HMS Guadalcanal | Jointly hosted by the two crews; designated a Flag Event by Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01[4] |
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.[5] 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.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Task Group 91.1 — task group history documenting the 2015 summit and its commissioning.
- ↑ Tenth Fleet — fleet history documenting the host chapters and their home regions.
- ↑ Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2504-02
- ↑ Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01
- ↑ BayCon — convention history, including the 2020 cancellation and 2021 virtual event.