The Navy is returning to Cleveland for the primary time since 2018, and this 12 months’s program will coincide with the Battle of Lake Erie Anniversary. The battle occurred between American Naval Forces and the British Fleet on September 10, 1813.
Cleveland Navy Week will convey between 50 and 75 Sailors from throughout the nation to volunteer all through the group and focus on why the Navy issues to Cleveland.
Cleveland Navy Week will characteristic in-person demonstrations, performances, and engagements all through the week that can embrace:
- Senior Navy Leaders – Flag officer and senior civilian Navy leaders with ties to Cleveland and the encircling space.
- Namesake Sailors – Sailors serving on USS Cleveland (LCS 31), a freedom-class littoral fight ship and USS Ohio (SSGN 726), an Ohio-class guided-missile submarine.
- U.S. Fleet Forces Band – Performances and masterclasses with Navy Musicians.
- Naval Historical past and Heritage Command – Instructional displays and lesson plans concerning the deep ties between Ohio 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.
- Workplace of Small Enterprise Applications – Workshops on doing enterprise with the Division of the Navy
- Navy Expertise Acquisition Group – Instructional displays, group service tasks and static shows.
Navy Weeks are the service’s signature outreach program, designed to permit the residents of Cleveland to be taught concerning the Navy, its folks, and its significance to nationwide safety and prosperity. The Navy Workplace of Neighborhood Outreach (NAVCO) coordinates Navy Weeks.
“We’re excited to convey Navy Week to Cleveland,” mentioned 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 army affect and Navy Weeks permit 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,” mentioned NAVCO Navy Week program supervisor Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Chambers. “We’re wanting ahead to a different nice 12 months of engagements and bringing the Navy to each nook of the USA.”
For extra data on Cleveland Navy Week, contact Lt. Caroline Prepared at (910) 915-6386 or caroline.e.prepared.mil@us.navy.mil.
