Out at sea, every day you’re reminded why the ocean’s called “The Big Blue”🌊 #JustSailorThings
📸: Sailors conduct search and rescue swimmer training during small boat ops alongside USS Gravely (DDG 107) in the Gulf of Aden, March 19. #AlwaysReady

#BZ to the crew of the USS Carney (DDG 64)!

Thank you for your time and service in the #us5thfleet area of operations.🫡

Fair winds and following seas🌊⚓️

Happy Birthday to all U.S. Submariners Past and Present! 🎉

On April 11, 1900 the U.S. Navy acquired its first commissioned submarine marking the birth of the U.S. Submarine Force. 🫧

Today, we celebrate our submarine fighting force with a 124th birthday ceremony. The ceremony…

Prep, set, launch, repeat! 🔁These Sailors make launching jets look easy! #NavysFinest 😎
📸: Sailors prepare and launch F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jets during flight operations aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (@theCVN69) in the Red Sea. #AlwaysReady

Quality control means EVERY aircraft on a U.S. carrier gets a full inspection before being allowed to fly✅, that’s just the #NavyWay 😎
📸:Sailors aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (@theCVN69) inspect and prep F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jets for flight in the Red Sea. #AlwaysReady

Before the 1MC intercom system📢, the boatswain's call was used to quickly communicate orders. Now it's used during ceremonies to 'pipe aboard' and 'pipe ashore' important officers.🫡
📸: A Boatswain's Mate sounds a boatswain's pipe aboard USS Mason (DDG 87) in the Red Sea.

A 🇺🇸 U.S. Coast Guard cutter, working in direct support of Combined Task Force (CTF) 150 of Combined Maritime Forces, seized nearly 400 kilograms of illegal drugs from a dhow in the Arabian Sea, April 4.

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#ReadyTogether

🇺🇸U.S. and 🇬🇧United Kingdom Naval Forces conducted a bilateral mine countermeasures exercise Poseidon's Chalice in the Arabian Sea from Feb. 24 - March 16.

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'Meeting the Sailors aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and USS Mason was a reminder of the tremendous responsibility we've entrusted with our young men and women to keep critical sea lanes open and secure. It's an honor serving with them.'

- VADM Wikoff, NAVCENT/C5F CDR USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (IKE)

There’s no lengths man’s best friend🐶won’t go to bring smiles to Sailor’s faces! Capt. Demo reports for duty aboard USS Mason in the Red Sea!
📸: Capt. Demo, a facility dog assigned to USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (@theCVN69) visits Sailors aboard USS Mason (DDG 87) in the Red Sea.

Stand by! Helo inbound! #JustSailorThings
📸: An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 7, lands on the flight deck of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) in the Red Sea. #AlwaysReady

Blink and you’ll miss it! 😮 @theCVN69 is prepared to operate at any time, even at night! #ASailorsNightLife
📸: Sailors conduct flight operations aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Red Sea. #AlwaysReady

📸: 🇺🇸USS Indianapolis (LCS 17) and 🇸🇦Royal Saudi Naval Forces pilots teamed up to knock out important flight deck landing qualifications flying MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopters in the Arabian Gulf, March 27. #TogetherWeAreStronger #AlwaysReady

The 🇺🇸 U.S. Navy turned over command of Combined Task Force 153 to the 🇮🇹 Italian Navy during a change of command ceremony at the Combined Maritime Forces headquarters in Bahrain, April 3.

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Do you know the difference between a boat and a ship?🤔
You can put a boat on a ship, but you can't put a ship on a boat!🚢⚓️

📸: Sailors aboard USS Indianapolis (LCS 17) prepare to lower a RHIB into the water for small boat ops in the Arabian Gulf, March 19.

On May 13, 1908, President Roosevelt signed the Naval Appropriations Bill that authorized the Navy Nurse Corps. The first group of nurses were dubbed “the Sacred Twenty.”✨🩺 The Navy’s first enlisted woman, Loretta Perfectus Walsh, swore in on March 21, 1917. #WomensHistoryMonth

March 22 Red Sea Update

On March 22, between approximately 4:22 a.m. and 11:10 p.m. (Sanaa time), United States Central Command (CENTCOM) forces successfully engaged and destroyed four unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen in self-defense.
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The world's largest maritime partnership, Combined Maritime Forces, welcomes Poland 🇵🇱 as its 42nd member!
#ReadyTogether

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📷: With a simple point👉, F/A-18E/F Super Hornets launch from USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (@theCVN69) to conduct operations in the Red Sea. Work from hundreds of Sailors lead up to that moment & every successful launch is proof of their efforts 😎 #TogetherWeAreStronger #AlwaysReady

📸: USS Laboon (DDG 58) conducts small boat operations in the Gulf of Aden, March 11. Sailors are ready to answer the call at all times of the day, from dusk till dawn. 🌅 #AlwaysReady #SmallBoatOps