The Yokosuka SWO Summit is a five-day occasion the place junior and senior floor warriors take part in a collection {of professional} improvement periods designed to focus on superior capabilities and procedures to make sure our floor forces keep the best ranges of fight readiness and lethality.
This yr’s summit was a departure from earlier years with the inclusion of floor forces from Australia, Canada, and Japan, all of whom shall be working collectively as a part of CTF71 over the course of the subsequent yr within the Western Pacific.
“This can be a nice alternative that brings collectively our ships with Allies and companions and key stakeholders from the Floor Warfare Neighborhood to all keep forward of our planning and capabilities.” stated Lt. Cmdr. Alex Rose. “We come away from the week with higher understanding of our floor drive, how we are able to higher combine with different like-minded maritime nations and how one can finest make use of our mixed sea energy. Annually of this occasion has been higher than the final, and this yr is not any exception as we work onerous to include a wide range of subject material specialists to sharpen our technical and tactical competencies.”
Along with lectures associated to high-end warfighting, attendees had the chance to study concerning the path the Floor neighborhood is heading with respect to manning, coaching, and procurement. Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, Commander Naval Floor Forces, opened the summit difficult its attendees to take advantage of their time by asking questions and staying engaged.
Capt. Brian Mutty, Commanding Officer of Floor Warfare Faculties Command, introduced the newest updates to fleet coaching, and Capt. Jeff Heames led a staff from Floor Warfare Officer Assignments (PERS-41) to reply questions associated to skilled improvement and detailing throughout the Floor Neighborhood. Each Floor Warfare Officer had the chance to fulfill with their detailer, offering junior floor warriors an opportunity to study extra about SWO profession paths and ask questions concerning the detailing course of.
Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, Commander Seventh Fleet closed out the summit difficult each attendee to use what they realized over the course of the week at sea.
“This time we spend collectively now, targeted on superior warfighting and
skilled improvement is important, made much more necessary by the
contributions of our closest Allies within the Pacific. This summit provides us a
likelihood to enhance our interoperability with international locations like Australia,
Canada, and Japan for the high-end combat, in addition to to find out how they clear up related issues.” stated Capt. Justin Harts, Deputy Commodore, DESRON 15. “We host this symposium to construct the relationships essential to combat as a single mixed drive, ought to we ever be compelled to take action. That is time very effectively spent!”
CTF 71/DESRON 15 is the Navy’s largest forward-deployed destroyer squadron and the U.S. seventh Fleet’s principal floor drive. It’s ahead deployed to the U.S. seventh Fleet space of operations in help of safety and stability within the Indo-Pacific.
