Cruiser-Destroyer Group Twelve

Carrier Strike Group 14
Carrier Strike Group 14 crest
Active	1 October 2004 - c.2011/2012?
Country	United States of America
Branch	United States Navy
Type	Carrier Strike Group
Role	Ballistic Missile Defense Regional Air Defense Battle Space Management Maritime Interdiction Operations Maritime Security Operations Cruise-missile Strike Operations
Part of	United States Fleet Forces Command
Garrison/HQ	Naval Station Mayport, Florida
Website	Official Navy Carrier Strike Group 14 Web Site
Aircraft flown
Helicopter	SH-60B Seahawk

Carrier Strike Group 14 (CSG-14 or CARSTRKGRU 14, sometimes with the "Fourteen" spelt out) was a U.S. Navy carrier strike group. The group was for some time the only U.S. carrier strike group that did not have an assigned aircraft carrier or carrier air wing. As of December 2010, it directed the cruisers USS Gettysburg (CG-64) and USS Philippine Sea (CG-58). Carrier Strike Group 14 was seemingly last based at Naval Station Mayport. Without a carrier flagship, it did not conduct the typical deployments of other carrier strike groups; instead, its two cruisers made independent voyages.

The group is not listed in the Administrative Organisation of the Operating Forces of the United States Navy: Fleet Chain of Command, March 2012, and thus appears to have been disestablished.

The group commander exercised oversight of unit-level training, integrated training, and readiness for assigned units, as well as maintains administrative functions and material readiness tracking for the group's units.

The group reported to the Commander of the United States Fleet Forces Command. The group's pre-deployment training and certification would have theoretically come under the control of Fleet Forces Command following the disestablisment of the U.S. Second Fleet on 30 September 2011. However, without a carrier assigned, the group does not conduct pre-deployment group workups.

Administratively, Gettysburg and Philippine Sea were under the authority of Commander, Naval Surface Forces Atlantic.

Ticonderoga class cruisers provide a wide range of capabilities, including ballistic missile defense (BMD), regional air defense (RAD), battlespace management (BSM), maritime interdiction operations (MIO), maritime security operations (MSO), and precision strike tomahawk (PST) strike missions.