U.S. Naval Surface Force

📢❗NEW Surface Warfare Digital Feature OUT NOW❗👀 🚲Readiness Beyond the Job: Training and Competing in the 2024 Armed Forces Triathlon Championship🏆 For medical professional Lt. Cmdr. Pat Dougherty, the championships marked the seventh time he participated in the event as one of the Navy's team of motivated endurance triathletes. By day, he's full-time as a research physiologist at Commander, Naval Surface Force U.S. Pacific Fleet. But on his own time, Dougherty prioritizes his physical well-being by training for triathlon competitions. 📖 Read the full feature here:⤵️ https://lnkd.in/gmaGKK3v

⚓USS Spruance (DDG 111) Singapore Strait Transit🌅 The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111), sails in front of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) during a strait transit. Abraham Lincoln, flagship of Carrier Strike Group Three, is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. U.S. 7th Fleet is the U.S. Navy’s largest forward-deployed numbered fleet, and routinely interacts and operates with allies and partners in preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific region.

🇺🇸U.S., 🇫🇷France Naval Forces Conduct Bilateral Operations in Indo-Pacific⚓ The operations included U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey (DDG 105) and the French Navy Aquitane-class frigate FS Bretagne (D655). Read More: https://lnkd.in/gQuTHXft

🇺🇸USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) participates in Operation NANOOK🇨🇦 The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) participates in a photo exercise alongside the U.S. Coast Guard and the Royal Canadian Navy during Operation NANOOK (OP NANOOK), Aug. 18, 2024. OP NANOOK is the Canadian Armed Forces' annual series of Arctic exercises designed to enhance defense capabilities, ensure the security of northern regions, and improve interoperability with Allied forces. Black participated in the operation alongside the U.S. Coast Guard and Canadian and Danish Allies to bolster Arctic readiness and fulfill each nation's defense commitments.

⚓USS San Diego Departs for Japan🇯🇵 USS San Diego (LPD 22) will join the Forward-Deployed Naval Forces-Japan (FDNF-J). This is a permanent change of station for the crew and family members. Read More: https://lnkd.in/dKJExbhK

🇺🇸USS Wasp (LHD 1) Operates with the Turkish Navy🇹🇷 The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1), front, and the transport dock landing ship USS Oak Hill (LSD 51), center, of the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group (WSP ARG)-24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC), operate together with the Turkish Navy amphibious assault ship TCG Anadolu (L400) and the Turkish frigate TCG Gokova (F496) in the Mediterranean Sea, Aug. 14, 2024. The WSP ARG-24th MEU (SOC) is on a scheduled deployment to the NAVEUR-NAVAF area of operations, supporting U.S., Allied and partner interests in the region, including in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea, to continue promoting regional stability and deterring aggression.

#ICYMI, Warriors and Warfighting: Surface Navy Association Waterfront Symposium 2024 Leaders from across the Navy, business, and academia gathered to discuss the future of naval surface warfare at the fifth annual Surface Navy Association (SNA) West Coast Waterfront Symposium onboard Naval Base San Diego, Aug. 14-15. Read more: https://lnkd.in/gywPE2N8

⚓First Dual-ship Operations at Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach Ammunition Pier⚓ The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyers USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125) and USS Halsey (DDG 97) conduct the first simultaneous munitions transfer operations at the new Naval Weapons Station Seal Beach ammunition pier. The new ammunition pier allows for safer, more secure and efficient operations while supporting larger Navy vessels.

Vice Adm. Brendan McLane, Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, delivers the closing keynote speech during the Surface Navy Association's (SNA) Waterfront Symposium at Naval Base San Diego, Aug. 15, 2024. The forum brings together military, business, and academic communities who share a common interest in surface warfare and promotes greater camaraderie surrounding professional matters within the surface force. We learned so much from SNA's panelists representing commands around the fleet.

🔴Live at the Surface Navy Association's Waterfront Symposium: Vice Adm. Brendan McLane, Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, delivers his closing keynote address. “We’re fighting in the Red Sea now. Our ships have a deterrent effect, but if that fails, we have to be ready to fight anywhere in the world, and that’s going to take 75 ships at a minimum.”