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Article: Atlantic Fleet gets new name, more work.
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- November 1, 2006
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Byline: Jack Dorsey
Nov. 1--NORFOLK -- For more than 100 years, the Atlantic Fleet has stood as the East Coast arm of the Navy, providing roughly half the force to protect and defend ocean waters between here, Europe and beyond.
President Theodore Roosevelt formally established it Jan. 1, 1906, and made the world take notice when he later sent the "Great White Fleet" out of Hampton Roads on a 14-month globe-trotting mission.
On Tuesday, aboard the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, with a huge sketch of "Teddy Roosevelt" looking down from a hangar bay door, the Atlantic Fleet was no more -- at least not in name.
It was disestablished ...