US Re-Launches Navy’s Second Fleet, With an Eye on Russia

US Re-Launches Navy’s Second Fleet, With an Eye on Russia
A fighter jet lands the deck of the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier on May 11, 2018 in the Atlantic Ocean. Eric Baradat/AFP/Getty Images
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As Russia expands its military activity in the North Atlantic and Europe, the United States is responding by reactivating the Navy’s storied Second Fleet.

“There are some bad actors on the world’s stage,” fleet commander Vice Adm. Andrew “Woody” Lewis said during a ceremony at the fleet’s home port of Norfolk, Virginia, according to the Navy Times.