OK - from the looks of things, there (hopefully) is nothing to worry about mikesn9. You are still on your first patrol from Pearl with the Sulu Sea assignment, which was the original Fremantle assignment from before you transferred to Pearl. The Area F7 assignment is from a "Status Update" where you sent a message in after completing the Sulu Sea objective, and they gave you the Makassar Strait objective. When you do a Status Update, it takes into account your current location, and assigns the next objective based on that, and not on where you are "home port" based. It is possible, being a CenPac sub and in the CenPac side of the Luzon Straits, to be assigned a South China Seas objective if you call in a Status Update while north of Luzon. The game has no idea of Command divides like SoWesPac or CenPac, and just uses 1000km or 1200km, or whatever the DynamicMiss.cfg file's entry has to base those assignments on. You wouldn't even have to do that Area F7 in Makassar Straits anyway, especially if you're still sinking ships like you had been. The F7 renown is at most 300 points. Just head back for Pearl, and ignore Lockwood's assignment and get back to English's authority area...
- good screenies, btw, and thank you for that.