16 April 2025 Blue Ridge Conducts Port Call in Cairns, Australia U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) arrived in Cairns, Australia for a routine port visit April 16, 2025. This is Blue Ridge’s first visit to the city since 2013...
18 January 2023 USS Mississippi Conducts Weapons Handling Exercise with Royal Australian Navy GARDEN ISLAND, Australia - The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Mississippi (SSN 782) completed a weapons-handling exercise involving the transfer of an inert training shape from Mississippi to Royal Australian Navy (RAN) assets ashore and back to the submarine, while moored at HMAS...
06 December 2022 USS Mississippi Sailors Volunteer at Western Australia Wildlife Center BIBRA LAKE, Australia - Sailors from the Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Mississippi (SSN 782) volunteered at a Perth-area wildlife center during their scheduled port visit to Royal Australian Navy HMAS Stirling Naval Base, Australia, Dec. 2...
02 December 2022 Naval Oceanography Visits Australia SYDNEY, Australia - Rear Adm. Ron Piret, Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, visited Australia to meet with his counterparts from the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organisation (AGO) and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) during a scheduled visit to the region, Nov 7-11...
21 November 2022 USNS Mary Sears Hosts U.S Ambassador to Australia SYDNEY, Australia - Pathfinder-class oceanographic survey ship USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS 65) hosts U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy during the ship’s scheduled visit to Sydney, Australia, on Nov 8, 2022...
17 November 2022 US, UK, Australian and Canadian Forces Operate as a Combined Force in Exercise Virtual Flag: Coalition KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. - “Fights on” loudly echos across the battlespace kicking off exercise VIRTUAL FLAG: Coalition 23-1 at the Distributed Mission Operations Center at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico, and distributed sites across four countries, during the first day of an...
08 November 2022 USNS Mary Sears Hosts U.S Ambassador to Australia SYDNEY, Australia - Pathfinder-class oceanographic survey ship USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS 65) hosts U.S. Ambassador Caroline Kennedy during the ship’s scheduled visit to Sydney, Australia, on Nov 8, 2022...
24 August 2022 Stronger Indo-Pacific: Australian Geo-Spatial Intelligence Visits Naval Oceanography STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - Naval Oceanography hosted representatives from the Australian Geospatial-Intelligence Organization (AGO) for an in-depth tour of Naval Oceanography’s global-reaching, environmental-information capabilities, Aug. 12, 2022...
24 August 2022 CSG 7 Visits Australia, Talks Interoperability CANBERRA, Australia – Rear Adm. Rick Seif, commander, Submarine Group (CSG) 7/Task Force (CTF) 74, visited multiple sites in Australia as part of a visit to highlight the importance of interoperability between U.S. and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) forces to regional security, Aug. 14-16, 2022...
01 December 2021 U.S. Fleet Oiler Conducts Replenishments-at-Sea, Enhances Interoperability with Australia During Annual Exercise PHILIPPINE SEA - Military Sealift Command’s (MSC) Henry J. Kaiser-class replenishment oiler USNS Big Horn (T-AO198) conducted underway replenishments with partners and allies as part of Annual Exercise (ANNUALEX), in the Philippine Sea, Nov. 21-30...