If well being situations allow, the Navy will take part in varied group outreach occasions in and across the metropolis, with the Mid-South Air Present and Blue Angels efficiency because the weekend anchor occasion.
Memphis Navy Week will deliver between 50 and 100 Sailors from throughout the nation to volunteer all through the group and provides residents as change to satisfy Navy personnel and talk about why the Navy issues to Memphis.
Memphis Navy Week will function in-person demonstrations, performances, and engagements all through the week that embody:
- Senior Navy Leaders – Flag officer and senior civilian Navy leaders with ties to Memphis and the encircling space.
- Namesake Sailors – Sailors serving on USS Tennessee (SSBN 734), an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine.
- Navy Band Nice Lakes – Performances and masterclasses with Navy Musicians.
- Naval Historical past and Heritage Command – Instructional shows and lesson plans that spotlight the ties between Memphis and the Navy.
- USS Structure – Demonstrations in regards to the oldest commissioned ship within the Navy.
- Navy Expeditionary Fight Command – Instructional STEM shows and health demonstrations by technicians, medics, and divers.
- U.S. Navy Parachute Crew – Soar demonstrations by the Navy Leap Frogs.
- 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 Memphis Navy Week, besides these with an authorized waiver for well being or spiritual causes, shall be totally vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19. The Navy Workplace of Neighborhood Outreach (NAVCO) will work carefully with group companions in Memphis and observe steering from public well being officers.
Navy Weeks are the service’s signature outreach program, designed to permit the residents of Memphis to study in regards to the Navy, its folks, and its significance to nationwide safety and prosperity. NAVCO coordinates Navy Weeks.
“We’re very excited to deliver Navy Week to Memphis,” mentioned NAVCO’s director, Cmdr. John Fage. “Navy Weeks give us the chance to assist join Individuals to their Navy. We’re wanting ahead to securely and responsibly constructing these connections within the Memphis space and exhibiting everybody why their Navy is so essential.
Since 2005, the Navy Week program has served because the Navy’s flagship outreach effort to areas and not using a important Navy presence, with over 250 Navy Weeks held in additional than 80 totally different U.S. markets. Memphis is the sixth Navy Week in 2022.
“We coordinate about 75 outreach occasions throughout a Navy Week,” mentioned NAVCO Navy Week program supervisor Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Chambers. “Outreach occasions vary from company, civic, authorities, training, media, veterans, to group service engagements. The 2022 schedule is thrilling for us as a result of we shall be in a number of brand-new markets, and making return visits to nice markets like Memphis.”
For extra data on Memphis Navy Week, contact Ian Lundy at (901) 874-5803 or ian.p.lundy.civ@us.navy.mil.
