Capt. Robert Porter relieved Capt. Oscar Rojas as commander of Process Power 52 on the ceremony. Rojas started main activity power in March 2021.
“All the pieces we completed collectively was performed so with the utmost care and dedication,” mentioned Rojas to Process Power 52 employees members on the ceremony. “I couldn’t have requested for a greater group of women and men to serve alongside earlier than my retirement.”
Beneath Rojas’s management, Process Power 52 carried out 65 multinational workouts, together with 37 with counterparts from the UK Royal Navy which has illustration on the duty power employees.
Rojas additionally efficiently deployed Bahrain-based minesweepers throughout an historic 5,000-mile transit from the Arabian Gulf to the Crimson Sea in 2021. The journey marked the primary time the voyage was accomplished in seven years for U.S. Navy mine countermeasures ships. Porter assumes command after beforehand serving as chief of employees for Mine Countermeasures Squadron 7 in Sasebo, Japan.
“I look ahead to taking command of this extraordinary mine countermeasures activity power throughout this time of unparalleled innovation and alter,” mentioned Porter. “I’m excited concerning the new techniques and applied sciences coming to us and the way we will finest use them as power multipliers.”
The U.S. fifth Fleet working space contains 21 nations, the Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Oman, Crimson Sea, components of the Indian Ocean and three important choke factors on the Strait of Hormuz, Bab al-Mandeb and Suez Canal.
