Taking part ships and items embody Harpers Ferry-class dock touchdown ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49); Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62); the Ticonderoga-class guided missile destroyer USS Princeton (CG 59); the Independence-class littoral fight ship USS Kansas Metropolis (LCS 22); the quick response Coast Guard cutter USCGC Terrell Horne (WPC 1131); the Blue Angels; the Navy parachute staff, the Leap Frogs; Navy Band Southwest; 1st Marine Division Band; I Marine Expeditionary Pressure; third Marine Plane Wing; 1st Marine Logistics Group; Fight Logistics Battalion 11; 1st Medical Battalion; U.S. Coast Guard District 11; Navy Expertise Acquisition Group Golden Gate; Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group One; Naval Postgraduate Faculty Monterey; Expeditionary Strike Group Three; and Navy Area Southwest.
San Francisco Fleet Week affords the general public a possibility to take a tour of the ships and work together with service members as they showcase their ships’, items’, and providers’ capabilities. It additionally offers the general public an opportunity to realize a greater understanding of how the ocean providers help the nationwide protection of the US and defend freedom of the seas.
Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard forces and belongings additionally take part in a strong catastrophe response train, an annual occasion joint coaching occasion that provides a severe, sensible goal to San Francisco Fleet Week. The train is designed to coach navy forces and native, county, state and federal authorities businesses to work collectively to answer pure and man-made disasters, reminiscent of earthquakes, wildfires and industrial accidents.
Service members may have a possibility to work together with the local people, whereas taking part in quite a few neighborhood relations initiatives and leisure occasions all through the week.
The Fleet will arrive in San Francisco Sunday-Monday, Oct. 2-3. The general public may have alternatives to tour the ships and meet service members.
The schedule for ship excursions is as follows and is topic to alter:
Wednesday, October 5
Pier 30/32, Pier 35
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Thursday, October 6
Pier 30/32, Pier 35
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Friday, October 7
No excursions nevertheless the ships could be seen within the San Francisco Fleet Week Parade of Ships 10:30am-11:30 p.m. from Marina Inexperienced, Fort Mason, Aquatic Park, Fisherman’s Wharf, Pier 39 and the Embarcadero.
Saturday, October 8
Piers 30/32, 35
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Sunday, October 9
Pier 30/32, 35
10 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Monday, October 10
Pier 30/32, 35
9 a.m. – 12 p.m.
The general public is inspired to attend excursions and work together with service members.
Prohibited gadgets aboard embody the next:
– Meals or drinks, together with ice chests and coolers
– Digital camera tripods
– Skateboards, bicycles, hover boards
– Gang-related clothes
– Unmanned aerial programs
– Weapons, together with knives, firearms and membership weapons,
– Defensive chemical compounds or sprays, together with mace and pepper spray;
– Spray cans of any sort, fireworks, flammable liquids or different explosives
– Unlawful medicine and medicines thought of unlawful on the federal stage, together with marijuana, and/or drug-related paraphernalia
– Digital cigarettes
– Massive baggage, together with backpacks and enormous digital camera baggage (small digital camera baggage and small purses could also be permitted, however shall be topic to look)
