Crewmembers from the Coast Guard cutter Northland and Station Miami Beach are scheduled to offload approximately 1,250 pounds of cocaine, worth an estimated value of $19 million at Base Miami Beach, Monday. While on routine patrol in the Eastern Pacific on May 29, 2013, the crew of the Coast Guard C
The Spanish AEGIS frigate BLAS DE LEZO (F-103), flag ship of COMSNMG-2 Rear Admiral Eugenio Díaz del Rio, will soon participate in an air defence and ballistic missile defence (BMD) exercise with the US Navy destroyer USS Mahan (DDG-72) in Mediterranean waters. Both ships share the AEGIS combat syst
A Sailor aboard the U.S. Navy’s forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) received the Pacific Fleet 2013 Aviation Boatswain’s Mate of the Year award, June 24. Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Equipment) 1st Class (AW/SW) Luis Martinez, the leading petty officer for 242 Sailors in t
The iconic aft superstructure of the Royal Navy’s next-generation aircraft carrier was on Friday fixed firmly on her flight deck – all but completing the look of HMS Queen Elizabeth. The 753-tonne structure, which serves as the air traffic control centre for the 65,000-tonne warship, was lowered int
Huntington Ingalls Industries announced on Friday, June 28th, that the company has received a $745 million cost-plus-incentive fee contract for the inactivation of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65). The work will be done at HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division. The ship was towe
Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Ottawa, recently departed Esquimalt, B.C., for the eastern Pacific Ocean to support Operation Caribbe, Canada’s contribution to the multinational campaign against illicit trafficking by transnational organized crime in the Americas and the Caribbean. The Halifax-cl
The Navy and Lockheed Martin, with Marinette Marine Corp., held a keel-laying ceremony for the future USS Little Rock, the Navy’s ninth littoral combat ship (LCS), June 27, in Marinette, Wis. The keel-laying ceremony recognizes the first joining together of a ship’s components. While modern shipbuil
The Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS Richmond will sail up the River Thames and go alongside at West India Dock today for the start of a five-day visit to the capital. HMS Richmond is affiliated to Richmond-upon-Thames – and also to Richmond in North Yorkshire – and the ship’s commanding officer, Comm
Rear Adm. Mark L. Tidd, Chief of Navy Chaplains, arrived aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) June 26. Tidd visited the Nimitz Strike Group to conduct training with chaplains while also visiting Sailors and leaders. “I appreciate the opportunity to be aboard Nimitz and to spend a little b
The Royal Australian Navy has joined forces with the United States Navy (USN) and Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) to participate in a tri-lateral exercise, Pacific bond 2013, June 22-26. Pacific Bond is a multi-national naval exercise designed to advance participating nations’ military-to-
The forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) embarked Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) in support of joint force operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility, June 25. During the onload, Bonhomme Richard’s combat cargo department loaded mo
The U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier departed Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan for its 2013 patrol, June 26. This marks USS George Washington’s (CVN 73) fifth patrol of the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility since relieving the now-decommissioned USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63) in 2008.
Maritime forces from four countries began participation in the multinational naval exercise FRUKUS, in port Brest, France, June 25. FRUKUS, which is led this year by the French navy, is focused on improving maritime security through open dialogue and increased training of the participating nations,
Guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60) returned to its homeport of Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam June 24 following a nine-month deployment to the Western Pacific and U.S. Central Command areas of responsibility. “We have been gone 277 days and we are just thrilled to be home to the Nav
