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Japan hosts US, Australia, & India in Naval Exercise Malabar 2022. 2022 marks the 26th iteration of the Malabar series of naval exercises.

Have you heard the news about the Navy’s National Museum? The new location for the Navy’s national museum has been confirmed.

On September 20th, the Navy accepted the delivery of USS Cooperstown (LCS 23) at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin.

On August 23rd of 2022, the US Navy welcomed the third great Overlord unmanned surface vessel into its fleet. This service prepared for the USV experimentation that will take place ashore and at sea.

The Blue Angels reached new heights this month, appointing the first ever female F/A-18E/F demo pilot, Lt. Amanda Lee.

The USNS John L. Canley (ESB 6) was christened on May 22, 2022, at the General Dynamics-NASSCO shipyard in San Diego.

The U.S. Navy is proud to honor a USS San Diego Sailor’s bravery back from back in 1915 by naming a guided-missile destroyer after him. Fireman 2nd Class Telesforo De La Cruz Trinidad was the very first Filipino American to receive the Medal of Honor.

San Diego-based USS Abraham Lincoln and its strike group have begun operating in waters off the Korean peninsula after South Korean media reported that the ships were deployed amid tensions over North Korea’s missile tests.

Newly commissioned independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Savannah (LCS-28) arrived at the homeport of Naval Base San Diego on Tuesday, March 3rd. Prior to its arrival, the Savannah officially joined the fleet back on February 5th when it was commissioned in Georgia!

The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln departed from its homeport of San Diego for its regularly scheduled deployment with its carrier strike group. What makes this an even greater happening was that the carrier's commanding officer was Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, the first woman to lead a nuclear carrier in U.S. Navy history!

On December 15th of 2016, the Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) departed Puget Sound Naval Shipyard for sea trials following a maintenance availability. Now the power attack submarine arrived damaged at San Diego, California on Sunday of December 12th, 2021. This took place after a surface transit of 6,182 miles from Guam.

Rep. Mike Levin and D-San Juan Capistrano announced a bill to rename the San Diego Veteran Affairs Medical Center in honor of a local soldier killed in Afghanistan has passed the House of Representatives with unanimous support.