Spokane Navy Week brings Sailors from throughout the fleet to the realm to emphasise the significance of the Navy to Spokane, the state of Washington, and the nation.
Greater than 50 Sailors will take part in schooling and neighborhood outreach occasions all through the town.
Collaborating Navy organizations embody Navy Band Northwest, USS Structure, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, United States Ceremonial Guard and Coloration Guard, Navy Expertise Acquisition Group Spokane, Unmanned Undersea Automobile Squadron One, Naval Particular Warfare Assessments Staff, Explosive Ordinance Disposal Staff One, Navy Leap Frogs, United States of America Vietnam Commemoration, U.S. Navy Bureau of Drugs and Surgical procedure, Workplace of Small Enterprise Packages and the USA Naval Academy.
The Navy’s senior government is Rear Adm. Jeffrey Kilian, Deputy Chief of Workers, Reserve Part, N093, Workplace of the Chief of Naval Operations. Kilian is a local of Spokane, Washington. He graduated from San Diego State College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering. He additionally holds a Grasp of Science in Engineering (Building Engineering and Mission Administration) from the College of Texas at Austin and he accomplished the Superior Administration Program at Duke College. Previous to becoming a member of the Navy, Kilian served 4 years as a Marine assigned to 1st Marine Division, 1 Marine Expeditionary Power. Throughout Spokane Navy Week, he’s 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 Neighborhood Outreach designed to present Individuals a possibility to be taught 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 no important Navy presence, offering the general public a firsthand take a look at why the Navy issues to cities like Spokane.
“We’re thrilled to convey the Navy to Spokane,” stated NAVCO’s director, Cmdr. Anthony Falvo. “Although our Navy is deployed around-the-world and around-the-clock, the Navy Week program permits us to showcase our Navy in locations that don’t take pleasure in an on a regular basis naval presence. Most significantly it affords us the chance to spotlight our most vital asset – the extremely expert women and men of the USA Navy who guarantee our warfighting benefit to protect our American lifestyle.”
All through the week, Sailors are collaborating in numerous neighborhood occasions throughout the realm, together with participating with college students throughout a number of faculties and on the Boys & Women Membership of Spokane, volunteering by way of Second Harvest and Habitat for Humanity Retailer, and publicly seen on the Lilac Competition Parade and downtown Spokane. Residents will even take pleasure in free reside music by Navy Band Northwest at venues all through the week.
Spokane Navy Week is one among 15 Navy Weeks in 2024, which brings quite a lot of belongings, 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 130 million folks — about half the U.S. inhabitants.
Media organizations wishing to cowl Spokane Navy Week occasions ought to contact Ensign Taylor Worley at (901) 232-4449 or taylor.a.worley.mil@us.navy.mil
