Detroit Navy Week will function 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 Detroit and the encircling space.
- Namesake Sailors – Sailors serving on the littoral fight ship USS Detroit (LCS 7), and the Ohio-class nuclear-powered guided missile submarine USS Michigan (SSGN 727).
- Navy Band Nice Lakes – Performances and masterclasses with Navy Musicians.
- Naval Historical past and Heritage Command – Instructional displays and lesson plans in regards to the deep ties between Michigan and the Navy.
- USS Structure – Demonstrations in regards to the oldest commissioned ship within the Navy.
- U.S. Navy SEALs and Particular Warfare Fight Craft Crew – Demonstrations and Static shows.
- U.S. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command – Instructional presentation on the significance of atmospheric and oceanographic science and the general worth of STEM training to the Navy.
Detroit was chosen by the Navy Workplace of Neighborhood Outreach (NAVCO) as one in every of 14 places for the 2022 Navy Week program. The Navy plans to return to the Motor Metropolis this summer time following visits in 2017 for the commissioning of the littoral fight ship USS Detroit, and in 2015 for Detroit Navy Week.
“We’re very excited to carry Navy Week to Detroit,” stated NAVCO’s director, Cmdr. John Fage. “Navy Weeks give us the chance to assist join Individuals to their Navy. We’re wanting ahead to soundly and responsibly constructing these connections within the Detroit space and exhibiting everybody why their Navy is so vital.”
Since 2005, the Navy Week program has served because the Navy’s flagship outreach effort to areas with no important Navy presence, with over 250 Navy Weeks held in additional than 80 totally different U.S. markets.
“We coordinate about 75 outreach occasions throughout a Navy Week,” stated NAVCO Navy Week program supervisor Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Chambers. “Outreach occasions vary from company, civic, authorities, training, media, veterans, neighborhood 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 visits to cities like Detroit.”
Each Sailor chosen to take part in Detroit Navy Week, besides these with an accepted waiver for well being or spiritual causes, will likely be absolutely vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19.
The Navy Workplace of Neighborhood Outreach is working intently with neighborhood companions in Detroit and is fastidiously monitoring steering from public well being officers to make sure a secure occasion. Navy Weeks have been carried out just about for the reason that onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and have not too long ago been introduced again as in-person occasions.
For extra info on 2022 Navy Weeks, go to http://outreach.navy.mil. For extra info on Detroit Navy Week, go to https://www.outreach.navy.mil/Navy-Weeks-2022/Detroit-2022/ or contact Ensign Andrew Johnson at (205) 283-7592 or andrew.l.johnson4.mil@us.navy.mil.
