30 July 2013 USS Freedom Underway to Support First Overseas Crew Swap As the deployment to Southeast Asia draws to a close for USS Freedom's (LCS 1) "Gold" crew, an advance team of "Blue" crew Sailors is in Singapore to participate in a brief sea trial that began July 30, as part of the upcoming crew swap...
30 July 2013 Talisman Saber 2013 Wraps Up Aboard USS Blue Ridge The biennial US-Australian exercise concluded with a ceremony hosted by Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III aboard the U.S. 7th Fleet flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) in Cairns, Australia, July 29...
29 July 2013 US, Republic of Singapore Navies Conclude 19th CARAT Singapore The 19th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Singapore exercise concluded with a closing ceremony at Changi Naval Base, July 26...
29 July 2013 George Washington Completes Talisman Saber, Arrives in Brisbane The U.S. Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier and its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, arrived to Brisbane, Australia, July 29, for its first port visit of its 2013 patrol...
29 July 2013 U.S. Navy Admiral Returns Flag to Japan In a gesture of friendship and goodwill, Rear Adm. James F. Caldwell, commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, returned a Japanese good luck flag belonging to a World War II Imperial Japanese soldier, July 26...
28 July 2013 Pacific Partnership Arrives in Solomon Islands USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) arrived in the Solomon Islands July 29 and will work alongside the Royal New Zealand Navy's HMNZS Canterbury (L421) as New Zealand leads this phase of the Pacific Partnership mission...
26 July 2013 Pacific Partnership Concludes Work in Kiribati Pacific Partnership's work in Kiribati — the fifth of six mission ports — was completed July 26...
23 July 2013 Bonhomme Richard ESG Partners with Australians, Completes Air Defense Exercise The Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group teamed up with forces from the George Washington Carrier Strike Group and Australian Defence Force to conduct an air defense exercise as part of exercise Talisman Saber, July 22...
22 July 2013 Boxer ARG Completes Composite Training Unit Exercise The Boxer Amphibious Ready Group successfully completed COMPTUEX July 19, moving one step closer to being certified and prepared for deployment...
21 July 2013 HMNZS Manawanui Concludes Participation in Pacific Partnership The Royal New Zealand Navy diving support vessel HMNZS Manawanui (A09) concluded its mission with Pacific Partnership 2013, July 21...
18 July 2013 Multilateral Pacific Mission Boosts Disaster Response Capacity Two months into the largest disaster response preparedness operation in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region, participants in Pacific Partnership 2013 are taking the mission to the next level in ways the mission commander says will help to ensure its long-term viability despite budgetary constraints...
17 July 2013 Hawaii's last frigate USS Reuben James to be decommissioned USS Reuben James (FFG 57) will be decommissioned July 18 after nearly thirty years of distinguished naval service...
17 July 2013 USS Freedom VBSS Team trains with Singapore Coast Guard during CARAT USS Freedom's (LCS 1) visit, board, search and seizure team staged a compliant boarding exercise with a team from the Singaporean Police Coast Guard, July 17 as part of exercise Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training...
17 July 2013 Chaplains to be Operationally Tested in Talisman Saber Capt. Francis D. Bonadonna, deputy fleet chaplain for U.S. Pacific Fleet, had a rare opportunity to create scenarios for the chaplain corps during the amphibious portion of exercise Talisman Saber 2013, being held off the coast of Australia July 15 through Aug. 6...
16 July 2013 Sailors Share Best Practices During CARAT Medical Exchange Sailors from the guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) and the littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) participated in an Independent Duty Corpsman (IDC) subject matter expert exchange (SMEE) June 16 with their Singaporean counterparts...
16 July 2013 Charlotte Visits Singapore during Western Pacific Deployment The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Charlotte (SSN 766) arrived in Singapore on July 16 for a visit as part of its deployment to the Western Pacific...
16 July 2013 Pacific Partnership Tests Water Quality on Tarawa Pacific Partnership 2013 environmental health specialists from the New Zealand Army are testing the quality of water from a number of rainwater catchment systems throughout Tarawa atoll in the Republic of Kiribati...
16 July 2013 Pacific Partnership Nurses Host Educational Workshops in Kiribati Pacific Partnership 2013 nurses are providing education and refresher training for nurses in the Republic of Kiribati, July 16, the first day of a five-day series of workshops...
16 July 2013 Pearl Harbor Based Independent Deployers Participate in Training Exercises Hawaii-based ships from Commander, Destroyer Squadron 31, as well as a ship from the Royal Navy, started a training and certification exercise off the coast of Hawaii, July 15...
16 July 2013 Australia Leads Pacific Partnership Phase in Papua New Guinea Marking the first time in the mission's eight years that a phase has been led by a partner nation, the Australian Defense Force brought the Papua New Guinea portion of Pacific Partnership to a close July 6 with assistance from Japan and the U.S...