Miami 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 Miami. This system final visited Miami in 2019.
Miami Navy Week will characteristic in-person demonstrations, performances, and engagements all through the week that can embody:
- Senior Navy Leaders – Flag officer and senior Navy leaders with ties to Miami and the encompassing space.
- Namesake Sailors – Sailors serving on the Ohio-class cruise missile submarine USS Florida (SSGN-728).
- Navy Band Southeast – Performances and masterclasses with Navy Musicians.
- Navy Expeditionary Fight Command – Instructional STEM shows 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.
- Naval Historical past and Heritage Command – Instructional shows and lesson plans concerning the deep ties between Miami and the Navy.
- Navy Expertise Acquisition Group – Instructional shows, group service tasks and static shows.
Navy Weeks are the service’s signature outreach program, designed to permit the residents of Miami to be taught concerning the Navy, its folks, and its significance to nationwide safety and prosperity. The Navy Workplace of Group Outreach (NAVCO) coordinates Navy Weeks.
“We’re excited to carry the Navy Week program to Miami,” stated NAVCO’s director, Cmdr. Anthony Falvo. “Seapower and America’s Navy are extra essential now than ever earlier than. The U.S. Navy stays our nation’s strongest instrument of navy affect and Navy Weeks enable us to showcase how the Navy serves America at sea, within the air, and ashore.”
Since 2005, the Navy Week program has served because the Navy’s flagship outreach effort to areas with out a vital 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 by way of company, civic, authorities, training, media, veterans, and group service engagements,” stated NAVCO Navy Week program supervisor Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Chambers. “We’re trying ahead to a different nice 12 months of engagements and bringing the Navy to each nook of the USA.”
For extra details about Miami Navy Week contact Lieutenant Junior Grade James Caliva at (210) 776-2831 or james.caliva.mil@us.navy.mil.
