The U.S. Navy is getting ready to deliver a Navy Week to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the course of the week of July 17-23, because the eighth Navy Week of the calendar yr.
Milwaukee Navy Week will deliver between 50 and 75 Sailors from throughout the nation to volunteer all through the neighborhood and focus on why the Navy issues to Milwaukee. This would be the fourth Navy Week hosted by Milwaukee and the encompassing communities. This system final visited Milwaukee in 2018.
Milwaukee Navy Week will characteristic in-person demonstrations, performances, and engagements all through the week that can embody:
• Senior Navy Leaders – Flag officer and senior civilian Navy leaders with ties to Milwaukee and the encompassing space.
• Namesake Sailors – Sailors serving on USS Milwaukee (LCS 5), a Freedom-class littoral fight ship.
• Navy Band Nice Lakes – Performances and masterclasses with Navy Musicians.
• Naval Historical past and Heritage Command – Academic shows and lesson plans in regards to the deep ties between Wisconsin and the Navy.
• USS Structure – Demonstrations in regards to the oldest commissioned ship within the Navy.
• Navy Expeditionary Fight Command – Academic STEM shows and health demonstrations by technicians, medics, and divers.
• U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command – Academic presentation on the significance of atmospheric and oceanographic science and the general worth of STEM training to the Navy.
Navy Weeks are the service’s signature outreach program, designed to permit the residents of Milwaukee to study in regards to the Navy, its folks, and its significance to nationwide safety and prosperity. The Navy Workplace of Neighborhood Outreach (NAVCO) coordinates Navy Weeks.
“We’re excited to deliver the Navy Week program to Milwaukee,” 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 permit us to showcase how the Navy serves America at sea, within the air, and ashore.”
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.
“We coordinate about 75 outreach occasions throughout a Navy Week via company, civic, authorities, training, media, veterans, and neighborhood service engagements,” mentioned NAVCO Navy Week program supervisor Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Chambers. “We’re trying ahead to a different nice yr of engagements and bringing the Navy to each nook of the US.”
For extra data on Milwaukee Navy Week, contact Melissa Heintz at (703) 203-4352 or melissa.l.heintz.civ@us.navy.mil.
