Spokane Navy Week will convey between 50 and 75 Sailors from throughout the nation to volunteer all through the group and focus on why the Navy issues to Spokane. This would be the second Navy Week hosted by Spokane and the encircling communities. This system final visited Spokane in 2021.
Spokane Navy Week will function in-person demonstrations, performances, and engagements all through the week that can embrace:
- Senior Navy Leaders – Flag officer and senior civilian Navy leaders with ties to Spokane and the encircling space.
- Namesake Sailors – Sailors serving on USS Washington (SSN 787)
- Navy Band Northwest – Performances and masterclasses with Navy Musicians.
- Naval Historical past and Heritage Command – Instructional displays and lesson plans in regards to the deep ties between Spokane and the Navy.
- USS Structure – Demonstrations in regards to the oldest commissioned ship within the Navy.
- Navy Expeditionary Fight Command – Instructional STEM displays and health demonstrations by technicians, medics, and divers.
- 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.
Navy Weeks are the service’s signature outreach program, designed to permit the residents of Spokane to study in regards to the Navy, its individuals, and its significance to nationwide safety and prosperity. The Navy Workplace of Group Outreach (NAVCO) coordinates Navy Weeks.
“We’re thrilled to convey the Navy to Spokane,” stated NAVCO’s director, Cmdr. Anthony Falvo. “Although our Navy is deployed around-the-world and around-the-clock, the Navy Week program permits us to showcase our Navy in locations that don’t get pleasure from an on a regular basis naval presence. Most significantly it affords us the chance to spotlight our most vital asset – the extremely expert women and men of the USA Navy who guarantee our warfighting benefit to protect our American lifestyle.”
Since 2005, the Navy Week program has served because the Navy’s flagship outreach effort to areas and not using a important Navy presence, with over 300 Navy Weeks held in additional than 95 completely different U.S. markets. Every year, this system reaches greater than 150 million individuals — about half the U.S. inhabitants.
“Our mission is to attach with the heartbeat of every group and we try to make an enduring influence on the Sailors, companions and group members,” stated NAVCO Navy Week program supervisor, Lt. Caroline Prepared. “We coordinate with companies, civic and group service organizations, native authorities, academic establishments, media, and veterans to provide the group as many alternatives as attainable to interact with their Navy.”
For extra info on Spokane Navy Week go to https://outreach.navy.mil or contact Ensign Taylor Worley at (901) 232-4449 or taylor.a.worley.mil@us.navy.mil.
