Cleveland Navy Week brings Sailors from throughout the fleet to the world to emphasise the significance of the Navy to Cleveland, the state of Ohio, and the nation.
Greater than 50 Sailors will take part in schooling and neighborhood outreach occasions all through the town.
Collaborating Navy organizations embrace U.S. Fleet Forces Band USS Structure, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, United States Ceremonial Guard and Shade Guard, Navy Expertise Acquisition Group Ohio River Valley, U.S. Navy Esports, Navy Historical past and Heritage Command, nuclear-power Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Ohio (SSGN 726), the just lately christened Freedom-variant Littoral Fight Ship USS Cleveland (LCS 31), and U.S. Fleet Forces.
The Navy’s senior executives are Mr. Andrew Haeuptle, director, Navy Employees for the Workplace of the Chief of Naval Operations and Rear Adm. Gregory Newkirk, deputy director for operations, Nationwide Joint Operations Intelligence Staff Two, J3, Joint Employees. Haeuptle is a local of Sandusky and a graduate of The Ohio State College, and Newkirk is a local of Medina and a graduate of Medina Excessive Faculty. Throughout Cleveland Navy Week, they’re collaborating in neighborhood engagements, assembly with college students, and talking with native enterprise, civic, and authorities leaders.
Navy Weeks are a sequence of outreach occasions coordinated by the Navy Workplace of Group Outreach designed to offer Individuals a possibility to study in regards to the Navy, its folks, and its significance to nationwide safety and prosperity. Since 2005, the Navy Week program has served because the Navy’s flagship outreach effort into areas of the nation with out a important Navy presence, offering the general public a firsthand have a look at why the Navy issues to cities like Cleveland.
“We’re excited to convey the Navy Week program to Cleveland,” mentioned NAVCO’s director, Cmdr. Anthony Falvo. “Seapower and America’s Navy are extra vital 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.”
All through the week, Sailors are collaborating in varied neighborhood occasions throughout the world, together with participating with college students throughout a number of excessive faculties and on the Boys & Women Membership of Cleveland, volunteering on the Higher Cleveland Meals Financial institution, Achievements’ Middle Camp Cheerful, and the Higher Cleveland Habitat for Humanity, and publicly seen on the Nice Lakes Science Middle, Higher Cleveland Aquarium, and Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame. Residents can even get pleasure from free dwell music by U.S. Fleet Forces Band at venues all through the week.
Cleveland Navy Week is one in all 13 Navy Weeks in 2023, which brings quite a lot of property, tools, and personnel to a single metropolis for a weeklong sequence of engagements designed to convey America’s Navy nearer to the folks it protects. Annually, this system reaches greater than 140 million folks — about half the U.S. inhabitants.
Media organizations wishing to cowl Cleveland Navy Week occasions ought to contact Lt. Caroline Prepared at (910) 915-6386 or caroline.e.prepared.mil@us.navy.
