The littoral combat ship got underway from Singapore Feb. 2 after completing her first scheduled preventive maintenance period during a maiden 16-month rotational deployment to the Indo-Asia-Pacific.
The Fighting Marlins returned to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Wash., Jan. 29, following seven months deployed in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations.
The littoral combat ship departed San Diego Jan. 30 for Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., to conduct operational evaluation and testing of the mine countermeasures mission package.
The ships, currently visiting Busan, just concluded a series of bilateral training exercises with the Republic of Korea Navy off the Korean peninsula.
Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit embarked USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) Jan. 26 to participate in amphibious integration training and a certification exercise.
In the early morning hours of Jan. 27, on Oahu's Makapu'u Point, more than 300 chief petty officers and first class petty officers stationed across Hawaii gathered for a hike.
The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship departed San Diego Jan. 26 for Sasebo, Japan, where it will join U.S. 7th Fleet's Forward Deployed Naval Forces.
Sailors and guests bade farewell to the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate during a decommissioning ceremony at Naval Station Everett, Wash., Jan. 23.
U.S. Pacific Fleet Commander Adm. Harry B. Harris, Jr., was among a group of more than 300 who gathered in Honolulu for the awarding of the French Legion of Honor to 34 World War II veterans of the 100th Battalion 442nd Regiment, Jan. 23.
The guided-missile destroyer arrived in Pyeongtaek, Republic of Korea, for a port visit Jan. 21.
