RADM Steven Waddell,Royal Canadian Navy,has joined the staff of the new U.S. 2nd Fleet as Vice Commander.RADM Waddell was most recently Director of Naval Strategic Readiness for the RCN.VADM Andrew Lewis ,Commander U.S. 2nd Fleet and NATO Joint Force Command Norfolk,welcomed RADM Waddell,who is the first foreign national officer on the 2nd Fleet staff, to his new post.*
U.S. 2nd Fleet was legislatively re-established on 1 July 2018 in the wake of Russian aggression in Eastern Europe,including its invasions of Georgia in 2008 and Ukraine in 2014,where it illegally annexed Crimea and wages hybrid warfare in Eastern Ukraine.It is also a response to the growing strategic and commercial importance of the Arctic.*
Speaking at a press conference in Norfolk,Virginia,VADM Lewis said that:
the 2nd Fleet has the capability to command and control forces assigned in high end maritime operations as it is expected of any other numbered fleet.*
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