Nineteen NATO Allies, one NATO partner nation, 50 ships, more than 45 aircraft, and approximately 6,000 personnel kicked off the 52nd iteration of Baltic Operations 2023 (BALTOPS 23) today in Tallinn, Estonia, June 4, 2023...

Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLT), announced the 2023 Sailors of the Year (SOY) during a ceremony held June 1, 2023 aboard Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Operations Specialist 1st Class Matthew Yeager was selected as the Sea Sailor of the Year and Logistics Specialist 1st Class Putra Nagara...

NORFOLK, Va. - Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC), named Operations Specialist 1st Class Kandace Tomkin, of Commander, Task Force 80, as the 2022 USFFC Sea Sailor of the Year (SOY) and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Heather Rufohuse, of United States Marine Corps Forces...

PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Pensacola Navy community celebrated the 81st Battle of Midway Commemoration where retired Rear Adm. Samuel Cox, director of the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) served as the guest speaker at the National Naval Aviation Museum on Naval Aviation Station Pensacola,...

ROTA, Spain - Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) departed Naval Station Rota, Spain on Monday, May 29th, 2023 in anticipation of the start of Flotilla Exercise 2023 (FLOTEX-23) hosted by the Spanish Navy in the western Mediterranean Sea...

HARBOR-HICKAM, Hi - The Department of the Navy (DON) today submitted to the Hawaii Department of Health (DOH) Supplement 2 to the Red Hill Tank Closure Plan for their approval...

NATO, Portugal - The 52nd iteration of Baltic Operations 2023 (BALTOPS 23), NATO’s premier maritime-focused exercise in the Baltic Region, is set to begin from Tallinn, Estonia, June 4-16...

OEIRAS, Portugal - U.S. Sixth Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO) concluded Europe’s largest integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) exercise, Formidable Shield 2023, May 26, 2023...

LANGKAWI, Malaysia -  U.S. Navy ships, aircraft and Sailors participated in the biennial Langkawi International Maritime Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) 23, from May 23-27...

GOTHENBURG, Sweden - The USS Normandy (CG 60), a part of the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, arrived in Gothenburg, Sweden for its first regularly scheduled port visit of its U.S. Sixth Fleet deployment May 25, 2023...