USS America and 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, Return Home 2018

06/01/2018
The Marines and Sailors of the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit and America Amphibious Ready Group return home after completing a seven-month deployment to the Indo-Asia-Pacific, Horn of Africa, Middle East and Mediterranean, this is their deployment video. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Hannah Perkins) PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 2, 2018)…

3 Carrier Exercise in Western Pacific

11/15/2017
11/15/2017: For the first time in a decade, three U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Groups (CSGs) coordinated operations in the Indo-Asia-Pacific. The USS Nimitz (CVN 68), USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) Strike Groups staged a complex series of air and sea exercises with Japan. According…

Australian Minister of Defense Visit To PACOM

09/25/2017
09/25/2017: Monday Sep. 18, Commander, U.S. Pacific Command (PACOM) Adm. Harry Harris met with Australian Minister of Defence Marise Payne, at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii. Adm. Harris welcomed the Minister’s first visit to PACOM headquarters. During Adm. Harris’ most recent trip to Australia last June, he participated with Minister Payne in…

USS Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group Operate with Malaysian Royal Navy

07/27/2015
07/27/2015:USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), USS Gridley (DDG 101) and KD Lekir (FSG 26) participate in a PASSEX exercise, aimed at developing and expanding bi-lateral exercises with the Malaysian Royal Navy. Carl Vinson Strike group isseen deployed to the 7th Fleet area of operation supporting security and stability in the…

USS Carl Vinson Operations at Sea 2

12/29/2014
12/29/2014: In the first three photos, an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter from the Battle Cats of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 73 lifts off from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17,…

USS Dewey at Sea

12/17/2014
12/17/2014: These photos are of the USS Dewey operating at sea in both August and September 2014. The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105), fires its MK 45 - 5-inch 54/62 caliber gun during a live-fire exercise. Dewey is underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility…