If well being situations allow, the Navy will conduct training and group outreach all through San Jose and the encompassing communities.
San Jose Navy Week will carry between 50 and 75 Sailors from throughout the nation to volunteer all through the group and talk about why the Navy issues to San Jose. This would be the first Navy Week hosted by San Jose and the encompassing communities.
San Jose Navy Week will characteristic in-person demonstrations, performances, and engagements all through the week that can embody:
- Senior Navy Leaders – Flag officer and senior civilian Navy leaders with ties to San Jose and the encompassing space.
- Namesake Sailors – Sailors serving on USS California (SSN 781), a Virginia-class fast-attack submarine.
- Navy Band Southwest – Performances and masterclasses with Navy Musicians.
- Naval Historical past and Heritage Command – Instructional displays and lesson plans concerning the deep ties between California and the Navy.
- USS Structure – Demonstrations concerning the oldest commissioned ship within the Navy.
- Navy Expeditionary Fight Command – Instructional STEM displays and health demonstrations by technicians, medics, and divers.
- U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command – Instructional presentation on the significance of atmospheric and oceanographic science and the general worth of STEM training to the Navy.
Each Sailor chosen to take part in San Jose Navy Week, besides these with an authorized waiver for well being or non secular causes, might be totally vaccinated towards COVID-19. Moreover, the Navy Workplace of Neighborhood Outreach will work intently with group companions in San Jose and comply with steerage from public well being officers.
Navy Weeks are the service’s signature outreach program, designed to permit the residents of San Jose to study concerning the Navy, its individuals, and its significance to nationwide safety and prosperity. The Navy Workplace of Neighborhood Outreach (NAVCO) coordinates Navy Weeks.
“We’re very excited to carry Navy Week to San Jose,” mentioned NAVCO’s director, Cmdr. John Fage. “Navy Weeks give us the chance to assist join Individuals to their Navy. We’re trying ahead to soundly and responsibly constructing these connections within the San Jose space and exhibiting everybody why their Navy is so necessary.”
Since 2005, the Navy Week program has served because the Navy’s flagship outreach effort to areas with out a important Navy presence, with over 250 Navy Weeks held in additional than 80 totally different U.S. markets.
“We coordinate about 75 outreach occasions throughout a Navy Week via company, civic, authorities, training, media, veterans, and group service engagements,” mentioned NAVCO Navy Week program supervisor Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Chambers. “The 2022 schedule is thrilling for us as a result of we might be in a number of brand-new markets, like San Jose.”
For extra data on San Jose Navy Week, contact Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Chambers at (901) 232-4450 or kevin.l.chambers4.mil@us.navy.mil.
