The Navy Week is held along side Cell’s peak Mardi Gras Season the place sailors from throughout the fleet will converge on the town and surrounding areas to emphasise the significance of the Navy to Cell, the state of Alabama, and the nation.
Navy organizations together with Navy Band Southeast, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group 2, USS Structure, United States Ceremonial Guard, Navy Expertise Acquisition Group (NTAG) New Orleans, Navy Historical past and Heritage Command, Sailors from the namesake ships USS Alabama (SSBN 731) and USS Cell (LCS 26), the Fleet Ambassador Crew, Naval Oceanography Mine Warfare Heart, and the Fleet Survey Crew will take part in a wide range of group outreach occasions.
Each Sailor chosen to take part in Cell Navy Week, besides these with an permitted waiver for well being or spiritual causes, can be totally vaccinated towards COVID-19. Moreover, the Navy Workplace of Neighborhood Outreach will work carefully with group companions in Cell and comply with steering from public well being officers.
The Navy’s senior govt host is Rear Admiral Dion English, director, logistics, fleet provide and ordnance, U.S. Pacific Fleet, who will take part in group engagements in addition to meet with native companies, and civic, schooling, and authorities leaders.
“I’m excited to signify the Navy and interact with the town of Cell and the good state of Alabama,” stated English. “Cell has a wealthy Naval historical past, with 34 ships having been named for the state, its cities, and folks, together with the nuclear-powered submarine USS Alabama and the littoral fight ship USS Cell. The town of Cell and its residents embody a way of satisfaction, professionalism and dedication to its armed forces. These qualities are in step with the Navy’s service ethos and have attracted greater than six thousand energetic and reserve pressure Sailors to affix our ranks. These qualities additionally proceed to attach the residents of the world to our nation’s maritime companies, particularly our Navy.”
Navy Weeks are a sequence of outreach occasions coordinated by the Navy Workplace of Neighborhood Outreach designed to present People a possibility to be taught in regards to the Navy, its individuals, 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 vital Navy presence, offering the general public a firsthand have a look at why the Navy issues to Cell.
“Throughout a Navy Week, the Navy conducts roughly 75 outreach occasions with company, civic, authorities, schooling, media, veterans, group service, and variety organizations within the metropolis,” stated CDR John Fage, director Navy Workplace of Neighborhood Outreach. “We’re very excited to carry Navy Week to Cell. Navy Weeks give us the chance to assist join People to their Navy. We’re wanting ahead to securely and responsibly constructing these connections in Cell space and displaying everybody why their Navy is so necessary.”
All through the week, Sailors will take part in varied group occasions throughout the world together with volunteering with Habitat for Humanity, Feeding the Gulf Coast and Meals Pantry at Central. Residents will even take pleasure in free dwell music by Navy Band Southeast at venues all through the week together with the Exploreum and GulfQuest Maritime Museum.
The week will conclude with festive parades on ‘Fats Tuesday’, March 1, and Sailors from namesake ships marching along side Navy Band Southeast. The residents will be capable to work together with Sailors all through the day.
Cell Navy Week is certainly one of 14 Navy Weeks in 2022, focusing a wide range of property, tools, and personnel on a single metropolis for a weeklong sequence of engagements designed to carry America’s Navy nearer to the individuals it protects. Annually, this system reaches greater than 140 million individuals — about half the U.S. inhabitants.
For extra info on Cell Navy Week, go to https://www.outreach.navy.mil/Navy-Weeks-2022/Cell-2022/.
Media organizations wishing to cowl Cell Navy Week occasions ought to contact Mr. Isaiah Sellers at (901) 229-5631 or isaiah.sellers.civ@us.navy.mil.
