25 September 2025 Ships Announced to Participate in Navy and Marine Corps 250th Birthday Celebration The cities of Philadelphia and Camden will host the Navy Marine Corps 250 celebration October 9-16, 2025, with four U.S. Navy ships, two Coast Guard cutters, and four U.S. Navy Academy Yard Patrol boats (YPs) and sailboats. These vessels will participate in the Parade of Ships on Thursday, Oct 9...
25 September 2025 U.S. Navy Decommissions Avenger-class Mine Countermeasures Ships in Bahrain After nearly 40 years of active service, three recently decommissioned U.S. Navy Avenger-class mine countermeasures ships and their crews were recognized in conjunction with a final decommissioning ceremony for USS Devastator (MCM 6) on board Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain, Sept. 25...
24 September 2025 U.S., ROK Navies Conduct CONSOL During Freedom Edge 25 Military Sealift Command’s commercial charter oiler motor tanker Allied Pacific conducted a consolidated cargo replenishment at sea with Republic of Korea’s Cheonji-class fast combat support ship ROKS Daecheong (AOE-58), Sept. 18, in support of Freedom Edge 25...
23 September 2025 Successful Trident II D5 Life Extension (D5LE) Launches Demonstrate Continued Readiness of Nation’s Sea-Based Deterrent ATLANTIC OCEAN - The U.S. Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs conducted four scheduled missile test flights of unarmed Trident II D5LE missiles from an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine off the east coast of Florida from September 17-21. One launch test event Sunday evening lit up the night...
22 September 2025 U.S. Navy, Timor-Leste Defense Forces Commence 14th CARAT DILI, Timor-Leste — The U.S. Navy (USN) and Timor-Leste Defense Forces (F-FDTL), also known as Falintil- Forças de Defesa de Timor-Leste (F-FDTL), marked the start of the 14th Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Timor-Leste 2025, with an opening ceremony in Dili, Sept. 22...
22 September 2025 USS John L. Canley (ESB 6) arrives in Koror, Palau, Sept. 22, during Pacific Partnership 2025 KOROR, Palau– The Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base USS John L. Canley (ESB 6) arrived in Koror, Palau Sept. 22, 2025...
22 September 2025 FRCE develops test program to increase H-1 readiness A team of engineers at Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) recently developed a new capability that is saving the fleet time and money, and increasing fleet readiness. ...
19 September 2025 Freedom Edge 2025: Building Trilateral Trust Across the Indo-Pacific Japan, Republic of Korea, and the United States completed Freedom Edge 25, the premier trilateral multi-domain exercise between the three nations, Sept. 15-19...
18 September 2025 Blue Ridge visits Pyeongtaek, South Korea U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) arrived in Pyeongtaek, South Korea for a port visit, Sept. 18, 2025, after completing the trilateral exercise Freedom Edge...
17 September 2025 Connecticut River Valley to Host Inaugural Navy Week, September 22-28 Navy Week will set its “anchor” along the Connecticut River for the first time since the inception of the program in 2005, with a variety of outreach events scheduled Sept. 22-28 across the Hartford, Connecticut and Springfield, Massachusetts region...