Rear Admiral Antonio Natale, Italian Navy, handed over command of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) on Saturday, 15 June 2013 to Rear Admiral Eugenio Díaz Del Río, Spanish Navy, concluding a very successful six-month NATO deployment. The ceremony, presided over by Vice Admiral Peter Hudson, NAT
LHD ship Juan Carlos I set sail from Rota Naval Base on June 6th and arrived at Pontevedra Estuary to embark nearly one hundred Naval Academy students, future Spanish Navy officers; more specifically, 1st, 2nd and 3rd year students as well as candidates to the Supply Corps. They are all students of
Six Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) midshipmen trained on the guided- missile destroyer USS Higgins (DDG 76) to experience shipboard life, May 30 to June 17. The summer training program is designed to expose midshipmen to daily operations aboard U.S. Navy ships, aircraft, and submarines
The forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) completed loading ordnance, while preparing for a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet Area of Responsibility (AOR), June 13. For more than 12 hours, the weapons department Sailors offloaded more than 120 pallets of non-
Sailors and Marines participated in a Maritime Prepositioning Force (MPF) training event during amphibious exercise Dawn Blitz at Naval Amphibious Base June 13. The MPF training event tested logistics capabilities of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps and proficiency in moving supplies and equipment ash
A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft landed on Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) helicopter destroyer Hyuga (DDH 181) for the first time June 14. The landing aboard Hyuga was the culmination of extensive planning by Sailors and Marines from Commander, U.S. Third Fleet, Expedi
Exercise SEA LION 2013 got underway on June 10 as HMAS Choules slipped out to sea with a complement of more than 400 Army and Navy personnel onboard, and various pieces of equipment firmly secured on the vehicle deck. EX SEA LION 13, which is the first major joint amphibious exercise for the year, i
Sailors from Trident Training Facility (TTF) Bangor laid to rest faded and torn flags during a flag retirement ceremony in honor of Flag Day, June 14, at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor’s Deterrent Park. The Sailors placed the flags into the fire and rendered a salute while the flags were honorably burned.
Romanian helicopter manufacturer IAR Brasov has chosen Thales to supply TMS 2000 sonobuoy processors to equip IAR-330 Pumahelicopters operated by the Romanian Navy. The processors will give the Romanian Navy a decisive anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capability to detect submarines in the Black Sea, in
The Philippine Navy (PN) welcomed the Indian Navy (IN) ships at Berth 15, South Harbour, Manila on June 12, 2013 as they arrived for a 5-day goodwill visit from 12 to 16 of June 2013. Under the Command of Rear Admiral (IN) P. Ajit Kumar, the Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet (FOCEP), the ships t
The region comes to a crisis and United Nations Security Council is adopting a resolution legitimizing the international group of ships to come into the region and stabilize the situation. This is the basic assumption for the scenario of this year’s BALTOPS exercise. Eight Polish Navy ships, two hel
The 19th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise between the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and the Malaysian Armed Forces commenced with the arrival of a U.S. Navy task group to Kuantan Naval Base, June 15. The task group includes the guided missile destroyer USS Curtis Wil
HMS Dragon Escorts Gigantic LNG Carrier through Strait of Hormuz HMS Dragon helped shepherd a gigantic gas tanker through one of the world’s most important ‘choke points’ during an exercise to hone protecting sea trade. Multinational Amphibious Exercise Dawn Blitz 2013 Kicks Off Marines and sailors
Commander, Carrier Strike Group (CSG) Eight held a change of command ceremony while deployed aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (IKE), June 14. Rear Adm. Michael Gilday relieved Rear Adm. Michael Manazir in front of assembled members of CSG 8, IKE, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7
