Tenth Fleet Summit
| Tenth Fleet Summit | |
| Flag Event (FE) | |
| Type: | Fleet muster & annual gathering |
| Status: | Active |
| Location: | BayCon, Santa Clara, California |
| When: | Annual, in conjunction with BayCon |
| First held: | 2015 |
| Host: |  Tenth Fleet
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The Tenth Fleet Summit is the annual in-person gathering of the Tenth Fleet, convened each year in conjunction with BayCon — the flagship convention of the fleet's area of responsibility — in Santa Clara, California. It serves as the fleet's principal muster, bringing together the crews of its member chapters for ceremonial, administrative, and social activities over the course of 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:
- 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.
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 and HMS Chainshot at the 2016 summit.[1]
Alternating summits (2015–2019)
From 2015 through 2019 the fleet and its principal California task group alternated hosting duties. The fleet-wide Tenth Fleet Summit convened in the odd-numbered years — 2015, 2017, and 2019 — with Task Group 91.1 serving as host echelon. In the intervening even-numbered years, 2016 and 2018, Task Group 91.1 instead held a Task Group 91.1 Summit for its own members; the first of these was held at BayCon 2016.[1]
The rotation was interrupted when BayCon was cancelled in 2020 and held only virtually in 2021 during the pandemic.[2] Following the fleet's post-pandemic recovery, the Tenth Fleet Summit resumed in 2024, and the 2026 summit was formally designated a Flag Event and the 10th Fleet Summit for that year by Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01.[3]
Summits by year
| Year | Host | Type | Notable events |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Task Group 91.1 | Tenth Fleet Summit | Commissioning of HMS Cerberus |
| 2016 | Task Group 91.1 | Task Group 91.1 Summit | First TG 91.1 Summit; commissioning of HMS Chainshot |
| 2017 | Tenth Fleet | Tenth Fleet Summit | |
| 2018 | Task Group 91.1 | Task Group 91.1 Summit | |
| 2019 | Tenth Fleet | Tenth Fleet Summit | |
| 2024 | Tenth Fleet | Tenth Fleet Summit | |
| 2026 | Tenth Fleet | Tenth Fleet Summit | Designated a Flag Event by Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Task Group 91.1 — task group history documenting the 2015/2016 summits and their commissionings.
- ↑ BayCon — convention history, including the 2020 cancellation and 2021 virtual event.
- ↑ Orders:Tenth Fleet Order 2511-01