Collaborating Navy organizations embody Namesake Sailors from USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), USS St. Louis (LCS 19), USS Structure, musical live shows by Navy Band Nice Lakes, demonstrations by the Ceremonial Guard, Meteorology and Oceanography Command, Workplace of Small Enterprise Applications, Navy Expertise Acquisition Group Mid America, the Nimitz (VR trailer), U.S. Fleet Forces, parachute jumps by the Navy’s Parachute Workforce (Leap Frogs), and the Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron (Blue Angels).
Greater than 75 Sailors will take part in training and group outreach occasions all through the town, together with stay performances by Navy Band Nice Lakes at Ball Park Village, Jackie Joyner-Kersee Basis, St. Charles Riverfront Stage, the Metropolis Museum, and Kiener Plaza.
The Navy’s senior govt for the week is Rear Admiral Ingrid Rader, Reserve Deputy Director for Maritime Info Warfare, U.S. Pacific Fleet. Rader is taking part 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 interact with the town of St. Louis and surrounding areas,” mentioned Rader. “With the ability to share the Navy’s story and work together with the residents is each an honor and privilege.”
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 cities like St. Louis.
“We’re excited to carry the Navy Week program to St. Louis,” 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 navy affect and Navy Weeks enable us to showcase how the Navy serves America at sea, within the air, and ashore.”
All through the week, Sailors will take part in numerous group occasions together with participating with college students throughout a number of excessive colleges and volunteering all through the town with organizations such because the Veterans Neighborhood Venture, Woman Scouts, St. Louis Meals Pantry, Sleep in Heavenly Peace, SSM Well being Cardinal, Glennon Kids’s Hospital, St. Louis Cardinals Ceremonial Pitch, and the Black Ladies Do STEM.
St. Louis Navy Week is one in every of 15 Navy Weeks in 2023, which brings quite a lot of belongings, tools, and personnel to a single metropolis for a weeklong sequence of engagements designed to carry America’s Navy nearer to the folks it protects. Every year, this system reaches greater than 140 million folks — about half the U.S. inhabitants.
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.
