18 October 2022 Secretary of the Navy Announces Preferred Location for New National Museum of the United States Navy WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced the Department of the Navy’s preferred location for a new National Museum of the United States Navy (NMUSN) during an event Oct. 18 at the Washington Navy Yard, in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the service's 247th...
17 October 2022 Fourth Fleet Navy Reserve Sailors Support PANAMAX 2022 PANAMA - For more than 100 years, the Panama Canal has linked our world by bridging the divide between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Since its completion in 1914, the canal has been one of the most vital shipping routes on the planet with nearly 14,000 vessels making the transit every year. If...
14 October 2022 NATO kicks off Vigilance Activity Neptune Strike 2022.2 OEIRAS, Portugal - Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO) and U.S. Sixth Fleet (SIXTHFLT) commenced Vigilance Activity Neptune Strike 2022.2 (NEST 22.2) at STRIKFORNATO headquarters in Oeiras, Portugal, Oct. 14...
13 October 2022 Kearsarge ARG Returns after Deployment in the High North and Baltic Sea NORFOLK, Va. - Sailors and Marines assigned to the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) returned home to Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia after completing a seven-month deployment in the Sixth Fleet area of operations, Oct. 13...
13 October 2022 U.S. Naval Forces in Middle East Interdict $29 Million in Illegal Drugs MANAMA, Bahrain - A U.S. Coast Guard fast response cutter seized an estimated $29 million worth of illicit narcotics from a fishing vessel while patrolling the Gulf of Oman, Oct. 12, two weeks after another sizable interdiction...
11 October 2022 U.S. Coast Guard Ship Seizes $48 Million in Drugs in Middle East MANAMA, Bahrain - A U.S. Coast Guard fast response cutter seized an estimated $48 million worth of drugs from a fishing vessel while patrolling the Gulf of Oman, Oct. 10...
10 October 2022 Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 Departs Taranto, Italy, Starts Mare Aperto 22-2 TARANTO, Italy - Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) departed Naval Station Taranto Oct. 3 for the start of Exercise Mare Aperto 22-2 (MA 22-2), a large, live exercise conducted by the Italian Navy in company with Allied and EU partners...
09 October 2022 UK Frigate Seizes $45 Million Illegal Drug Shipment MANAMA, Bahrain - A frigate from the United Kingdom Royal Navy seized 870 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine worth an estimated $45 million from a fishing vessel in the Middle East, Oct. 2...
07 October 2022 U.S., UK Navies Conduct Unmanned Exercise in Arabian Gulf Naval forces from the United States and United Kingdom conducted a bilateral exercise in the Arabian Gulf, Oct. 7, which featured the use of unmanned systems and artificial intelligence to enhance maritime monitoring by crewed ships and operators ashore...
06 October 2022 U.S., Japan, and the Republic of Korea Conduct a Trilateral Ballistic Missile Defense Exercise SEA OF JAPAN - Following the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) ballistic missile launch over Japan on Oct. 4 (local time), which was part of a larger series of launches over the past two weeks, Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) and Arleigh...