On Monday, 8 September, EU Naval Force Belgian frigate, BNS Leopold I, conducted a replenishment at sea with the German support ship FGS Berlin in the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC). As the ships sailed close to each other, maintenance equipment was transferred from FGS Berlin
The US Coast Guard and Washington State Department of Ecology responded to a report of a 65-foot pleasure craft that went aground near Pleasant Harbor in Brinnon, Washington, Sunday morning. There was reportedly up to 500 gallons of diesel fuel aboard the vessel and an unrecoverable sheen was repo
Naval forces from Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and the United States kicked off UNITAS 2014, an annual multinational exercise, in Cartagena, Colombia, Sept. 12. Personnel from Argentina, Brazil, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Honduras, Italy, Panama, United Kingdom and New Zealand are also part
More than 4,000 Sailors and Marines with the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the embarked 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) arrived in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR), Sept. 12, after participating in a joint exercise with the Malaysian military and conducting a patr
A MH-60R Seahawk helicopter crew embarked aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109), performed the at-sea rescue of an USS New York (LPD 21) Sailor Sept. 11. The amphibious transport dock USS New York initiated the successful search and rescue mission after the Sailor failed t
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) transited the Bosphorus Strait departing the Black Sea, Sept. 12, after conducting a series of engagements designed to promote peace and stability in the region. Ross’ presence in the Black Sea served to demonstrate the United Stat
More than 600 Royal UK Marines and 1500 sailors, soldiers and airman have arrived in the waters off the small Adriatic nation of Albanian as the first amphibious workout of the Response Force Task Group’s annual Cougar deployment gets underway. Albanian Lion, as the exercise is called, will projec
Ships from various countries are underway in formation during Sea Breeze 2014. Sea Breeze is a multinational maritime exercise with naval forces participants from Ukraine, Georgia, Romania, Turkey, Latvia, and the U.S., as well as ships from Standing NATO Maritime Group Two, Task Unit 02, conducti
The Colombian Navy’s frigate ARC “Almirante Padilla”, along with its Bo-105 type helicopter and a detachment of Marine Special Forces, represented Colombia in the 2014 RIMPAC naval exercises alongside 22 other nations. The vessel returned to the Naval ARC “Bolívar” Base in Cartagena on September 1
The Royal Australian Navy’s largest maritime warfare exercise has ended after a final week of war games off the coast of Darwin. Exercise KAKADU, held from 25 August to 12 September 2014, involved eight ships, 26 aircraft and more than 1200 people from 15 Asia Pacific and Indian Ocean navies. The
The crew of the Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigate USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60) held a ceremony on Sept. 8 to pay tribute to the ship’s namesake on the 47th anniversary of his passing. Sgt. Rodney Maxwell Davis, from Macon, Georgia, was posthumously awarded the nation’s highest milit
Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic (CNAL) released the results of the Judge Advocate General Manual (JAGMAN) investigation in to the crash of an MH-53E Sea Dragon off the coast of Virginia January 8, that resulted in the death of three Sailors. The MH-53E, assigned to Helicopter Mine Countermeasu
In the final days of exercise of KAKADU, Commodore Peter Leavy, Commodore Warfare, visited a number of coalition ships before embarking on PNS Saif, 9 September 2014. Commodore Levy was greeted by Commodore Zahid Ilyas, Mission Commander of Pakistani Ships and Captain Jawad Ahmed, Commanding Offic
The Danish Defence Select Committee visited NATO Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) yesterday as part of a broader program of visits to UK-based commands. Discussions at MARCOM focused on maritime operations, including NATO counter-terrorism Operation ACTIVE ENDEAVOUR in the Mediterranean and counte
