Vice Adm. Steve Koehler

Former PACFLEET Maritime Operations Director Boyle Takes Command of 3rd Fleet

Vice Adm. Michael Boyle takes command of U.S. 3rd Fleet on June 16, 2022. US Navy Photo

Vice Adm. Michael Boyle is now the commander of U.S. 3rd Fleet after a change of command ceremony Thursday at Naval Base Point Loma, Calif.

Boyle relieved Vice Adm. Steve Koehler, who led the California command for just over a year. Koehler will report to the Pentagon as the director for Strategy, Plans and Policy, J-5, on the Joint Staff.

Boyle previously served as the director of maritime operations at U.S....

https://news.usni.org/2022/06/16/former-pacfleet-maritime-operations-director-boyle-takes-command-of-3rd-fleet

U.S. 3rd Fleet Shifts Command Hub to Hawaii as Vinson CSG, Air Wing Join Global Large-Scale Exercises 

Operations Specialist 2nd Class Vincent Hernandez stands watch at U.S. 3rd Fleet’s expeditionary maritime operations center (EMOC), forward-based at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, during Large-Scale Exercise (LSE) 2021. US Navy Photo

San Diego-based U.S. 3rd Fleet relocated its command-and-control hub to Hawaii to support the Navy’s Large Scale Exercise 2021 and join a globally-integrated exercise that’s combining live ships, including the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), and new...

https://news.usni.org/2021/08/10/u-s-3rd-fleet-shifts-command-hub-to-hawaii-as-vinson-csg-air-wing-join-global-large-scale-exercises

VIDEO: U.S. 3rd Fleet Change of Command

Adm. Samuel Paparo, commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet, congratulates Vice Adm. Stephen Koehler upon assuming command of U.S. 3rd Fleet during a change of command ceremony on Naval Base Point Loma, June 3, 2021. US Navy Photo

The Navy’s numbered Fleet in the Eastern Pacific has a new commander following a Thursday ceremony, the service announced on Friday.

Vice Adm. Scott Conn passed the leadership of U.S. 3rd Fleet to Vice Adm. Steve Koehler, formerly the deputy commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, in a...

https://news.usni.org/2021/06/04/video-u-s-3rd-fleet-change-of-command