Oklahoma Metropolis Navy Week will function in-person demonstrations, performances, and engagements all through the week that can embody:
- Senior Navy Leaders – Flag officer and senior civilian Navy leaders with ties to Oklahoma Metropolis and the encircling space.
- Navy Band Southeast – Performances and masterclasses with Navy Musicians.
- Navy Expeditionary Fight Command – Instructional STEM shows 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.
- Naval Historical past and Heritage Command – Instructional shows and lesson plans concerning the deep ties between Oklahoma Metropolis and the Navy.
- Navy Expertise Acquisition Group – Instructional shows, group service tasks and static shows.
Oklahoma Metropolis was chosen by the Navy Workplace of Neighborhood Outreach (NAVCO) as one in every of 15 areas for the 2023 Navy Week program. The Navy is returning to Oklahoma Metropolis following its final Navy Week which was held in 2019.
“We’re excited to deliver the Navy Week program to Oklahoma Metropolis,” stated NAVCO’s director, Cmdr. Anthony Falvo. “Seapower and America’s Navy are extra essential now than ever earlier than. The U.S. Navy stays our nation’s strongest instrument of army affect and Navy Weeks permit us to showcase how the Navy serves America at sea, within the air, and ashore.”
“We coordinate about 75 outreach occasions throughout a Navy Week,” stated NAVCO Navy Week program supervisor Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Chambers. “Outreach occasions vary from company, civic, authorities, training, media, veterans, group service and youth engagements. We’re enthusiastic about this 12 months’s schedule because it permits us to go to new markets in addition to return to cities like Oklahoma Metropolis.”
Since 2005, the Navy Week program has served because the Navy’s flagship outreach effort to areas with no vital Navy presence, with over 250 Navy Weeks held in additional than 80 completely different U.S. markets. Every 12 months, this system reaches greater than 140 million individuals — about half the U.S. inhabitants.
For extra info on 2023 Navy Weeks, go to https://outreach.navy.mil or contact Lt.j.g. James Caliva at james.caliva.mil@us.navy.mil.
