27 July 2024 MAKO Global 2024 Enhances Warfighting Readiness for Reserve Sailors Reserve Sailors from across the U.S. gathered for the first MAKO Global 2024, an operational level of war (OLW) exercise featuring a Maritime Operations Center (MOC) training scenario simultaneously run in three locations, coast to coast. The introduction of MAKO Global into the MAKO exercise series...
04 December 2023 U.S. Department of State Foreign Press Center Journalists Visit Norfolk NORFOLK, Va. - U.S. Fleet Forces Command and NATO leaders hosted twenty journalists from the U.S. Department of State Foreign Press Center for two days of media engagements and unit visits Nov. 29-30, 2023.Journalists gained crucial insights into how the Navy engages globally alongside its...
30 September 2022 Vice Chief of Naval Operations Discusses Quality of Service and Readiness with Norfolk Leadership NORFOLK, Va. - Vice Chief of Naval Operations Lisa Franchetti visited multiple commands in Norfolk, Virginia, to meet with local military leadership, Sept. 30...
07 September 2022 USS Ross (DDG 71) concludes time as a FDNF-E ship ROTA, Spain - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) departed the U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa area of operations, marking the end of her time as a Forward Deployed Naval Forces-Europe (FDNF-E) Destroyer, Sept. 6, 2022...
13 July 2022 Future USS Fort Lauderdale begins maiden voyage to commissioning, homeport PASCAGOULA, Miss. – Underway, Shift Colors! The Navy’s newest amphibious transport dock ship, the future USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28), began her maiden voyage as the ship departed from Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss., July 11, en route to her commissioning site in Fort Lauderdale, Fl. and...
28 June 2022 SECNAV presides over ESG2 change of command NORFOLK, VA — By 1030 on June 24, USS Bataan’s (LHD 5) hangar bay was full of Marines in midnight blue coats and Sailors in white chokers. Most of them chatted amongst themselves in hopes it might help kill the 30 remaining minutes before show time. A smaller handful scurried about non-skid to sort...