23 April 2025 MAKO Sentry 2025-2: Generating Warfighting Capability and Lethality in the Pacific CORONADO, Calif. – Over 300 Navy Reserve Component Sailors on staff at U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLT), U.S. 7th Fleet, U.S. 3rd Fleet and U.S. 10th Fleet participated in MAKO Sentry 2025-2 in Coronado, California, and other Department of Defense locations including Norfolk, Virginia, Denver,...
22 April 2025 USS Mount Whitney conducts Tripoli and Benghazi port visits to promote regional stability, national unity and Libyan sovereignty TRIPOLI, Libya - The Blue Ridge-class command and control ship, USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20), arrived in Libya for scheduled port visits, April 20-21, in support of enduring U.S.-Libya cooperation and regional security. While in Libya, Mount Whitney visited both Tripoli and Benghazi for key...
21 April 2025 Navy Week Program Sets Sail for Duluth The U.S. Navy proudly announces Navy Week Duluth, Minnesota, taking place June 30 to July 6, 2025. As part of a nationwide outreach effort, Duluth Navy Week will bring 50-75 Sailors to engage directly with the community through a week-long series of performances, educational events and service...
20 April 2025 Mission Readiness in Focus During Senior DoD Health Visit to U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa CAMP FOSTER, OKINAWA, Japan – U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Okinawa hosted Susan Orsega, deputy assistant secretary of defense for health services policy and oversight, during a visit April 9 that focused on health care delivery and operational readiness across the Indo-Pacific...
18 April 2025 Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center Holds Change of Command Ceremony SAN DIEGO -- Rear Adm. T. J. Zerr relieved Rear Adm. Wilson Marks as commander, Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC) at Naval Base San Diego, April 17...
18 April 2025 U.S. Transfers Two 34m Patrol Boats to Tunisia During Visit of USS Mount Whitney to Celebrate 220 Years of U.S.-Tunisian Maritime Partnership TUNIS, Tunisia - The Blue Ridge-class command and control ship, USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20), arrived in Tunis, Tunisia, for a scheduled port visit on April 17, to reinforce the enduring partnership between the United States and Tunisia...
18 April 2025 First Royal Australian Navy Enlisted Students Graduate Nuclear Power Training MT. PLEASANT, S.C. – The first eight enlisted sailors and five additional officers from the Royal Australian Navy graduated from the U.S. Navy’s Nuclear Power Training Unit (NPTU) Charleston as part of the Australia, United Kingdom, United States (AUKUS) trilateral security...
18 April 2025 USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group arrives in Guam APRA HARBOR, Guam - Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68), flagship of Carrier Strike Group (CSG 11), embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW 17) and destroyers USS Gridley (DDG 101), USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) arrived in Guam for a regularly scheduled port visit, April 18...
17 April 2025 USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul Makes Multiple Drug Busts CARIBBEAN SEA — The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS 21), in coordination with joint partners, stopped two alleged drug smuggling operations in the Caribbean Sea within a 72-hour span...
17 April 2025 Secretary of the Navy John Phelan Visits PCU John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (April 16, 2025) – The Secretary of the Navy John Phelan visited Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) John F. Kennedy (CVN 79) at Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS), a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), April 16, 2025. ...