Taking part Navy organizations embody Namesake Sailors from USS Louisiana (SSBN 743), USS Structure, musical concert events by Navy Band Southeast, demonstrations by the Ceremonial Guard, Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Workplace of Small Enterprise Applications, Navy Expertise Acquisition Group Houston, and the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels).
Greater than 75 Sailors will take part in training and group outreach occasions all through town, together with dwell performances by Navy Band Southeast at Overton Brooks VA Medical Middle, Shriners Youngsters’s Hospital, Caddo Frequent Park, Sci-Port Discovery Middle, and the East Financial institution.
All through the week, Sailors will take part in varied group occasions throughout the world, together with partaking with college students throughout a number of excessive colleges and volunteering all through town with organizations such because the Boys Scouts, Lady Scouts, Christian Companies Meals Pantry, and the Fuller Middle.
The Navy’s senior government host is Rear Admiral Dion English, Vice Director, J4, Joint Workers. English grew up in Louisiana and attended Louisiana State and Southern Universities. He’s collaborating in group engagements, assembly with college students and talking with native companies, civic, training, and authorities leaders.
“I’m excited to characterize the Navy and have interaction with town of Bossier Metropolis – Shreveport,” mentioned English. “With the ability to come again to my state and produce Sailors with me is an honor that I do not take frivolously. I’m honored to come back and discuss how the Navy shares the values I discovered rising up.”
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 completely different U.S. markets. Annually, this system reaches greater than 140 million folks — about half the U.S. inhabitants.
“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, group service and youth engagements. We’re enthusiastic about this 12 months’s schedule because it permits us to go to new markets in addition to return to cities like Shreveport/Bossier Metropolis.”
For extra data on 2023 Navy Weeks, go to http://outreach.navy.mil or contact Mr. Isaiah Sellers at (228) 281-3940 or Isaiah.sellers.civ@us.navy.mil.
