Naval Surface Group SIX
The Naval Surface Reserve Force implemented major restructuring in 1994 and 1995 under which Naval Surface Group Six was disestablished. A total of seventeen ships were decommissioned in this period, including eight Frigate trainers (FFT), resulting in a decline in the number of ships in the Naval Surface Reserve Force from 33 in 1993 to 16 in 1994.
In June 1993 two Knox-class training frigates from Naval Stations Mobile and Ingleside, Texas, participated in a first-ever joint military training exercise in the Gulf of Mexico. The Mobile-homeported USS Jesse L. Brown (FFT 1089) and USS McCandless (FFT 1084) conducted two days of training involving maneuvering exercises between Combat Information Centers, stationing ships alongside one another and towing drills. The two ships -- part of the U.S. Navy's Innovative Naval Reserve Concept under Commander, Naval Surface Group Six, headquartered at Mobile -- were training together for the first time since the reserve training concept was initiated.
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