Yearly Archive: 2020

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy commissioned USS Tripoli (LHA 7), today, July 15, 2020. Although the Navy canceled the traditional public commissioning ceremony due to public health and safety restrictions on large public gatherings, the Navy commissioned the USS Tripoli administratively and the ship t…

WASHINGTON — Sixty-three people have now been treated for minor injuries as the fire aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard burns for a fourth day.

As of Wednesday morning, 40 sailors and 23 civilians have been treated for minor injuries including heat exhaustion and smoke inhalation while fighting th…

HMS Forth joined the Army and RAF in a combined exercise in one of the most remote – and less populated – islands in the Falklands.

After a busy ‘remembrance season’ in the South Atlantic, which saw the patrol ship retrace the route of ships and troops involved in the 1982 conflict, the second-ge…

A detachment of German Air Force Eurofighter fighters have arrived in Lithuania to undertake combined Quick Reaction Alert training alongside the RAF Typhoon fast jets already deployed there.

This opportunity has been arranged to enhance the current twinning programme that has been running betwee…

SIGONELLA, Italy — Two P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol and Reconnaissance Aircraft assigned to Patrol Squadron (VP) 47 participated in the Bulgarian Navy-led exercise Breeze 2020, July 15.

Twenty-six maritime vessels, nine aircraft, and approximately 2,500 sailors from ten countries are scheduled…

NORTH ATLANTIC — The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) demonstrated the newest capabilities in U.S. 6th Fleet (C6F) during exercise Dynamic Mongoose 2020, a NATO-led anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercise held in the northern Atlantic Ocean, June 29-July 10.

C6F…