News Around the Fleet

Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal (CG 73) return to Joint Base Pearl Harbor - Hickam from deployment, April 27. - 210427-N-MH811-1108 PEARL HARBOR (April 27, 2021) Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Port Royal (CG 73) return to Joint Base Pearl Harbor - Hickam from deployment, April 27. Port Royal conducted operations with Carrier Strike Group 12 and the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), participated in multiple international maritime exercises, and confiscated more than 1000 lbs. of narcotics in direct support of Combined Maritime Forces’ counternarcotics mission. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Molly Crawford)

Guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113) launches a missile during U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned Systems Integrated Battle Problem (UxS IBP) 21, April 25. - 210425-N-NO842-2002 PACIFIC OCEAN (April 25, 2021) Guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113) launches a missile during U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned Systems Integrated Battle Problem (UxS IBP) 21, April 25. UxS IBP 21 integrates manned and unmanned capabilities into challenging operational scenarios to generate warfighting advantages. (U.S. Navy photo by Boatswain’s Mate Seaman Clark Lappert)

An MQ-9 Sea Guardian unmanned maritime surveillance aircraft system flies over Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) during U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned Systems Integrated Battle Problem (UxS IBP) 21, April 21. - PACIFIC OCEAN (April 21, 2021) An MQ-9 Sea Guardian unmanned maritime surveillance aircraft system flies over Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) during U.S. Pacific Fleet’s Unmanned Systems Integrated Battle Problem (UxS IBP) 21, April 21. UxS IBP 21 integrates manned and unmanned capabilities into challenging operational scenarios to generate warfighting advantages. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon Renfroe)

Vice Adm. Michael Moran, principal military deputy assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition), speaks with representatives from General Atomics Aeronautical about the MQ-9 Sea Guardian unmanned aircraft at Pier 12 on Naval Base San Diego. - 210415-N-ZZ513-1054 SAN DIEGO (April 15, 2021) Vice Adm. Michael Moran, principal military deputy assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisition), speaks with representatives from General Atomics Aeronautical about the MQ-9 Sea Guardian unmanned aircraft at Pier 12 on Naval Base San Diego. U.S. Pacific Fleet’s UxS IBP 21, April 19-26, integrates manned and unmanned capabilities into the most challenging operational scenarios to generate war fighting advantages. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Natalie M. Byers)

Littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) returns to Naval Base San Diego from her final deployment, April 12. - 210412-N-NN369-1046 SAN DIEGO (April 12, 2021) Littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) returns to Naval Base San Diego from her final deployment, April 12. Freedom returned after supporting Joint Interagency Task Force South’s counter illicit drug trafficking mission in the Caribbean and Eastern Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jessica Paulauskas)

Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) with embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment 107 seized an estimated 1,575 kilograms of suspected cocaine, April 7. - PACIFIC OCEAN (April 7, 2021) Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) with embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment 107 seized an estimated 1,575 kilograms of suspected cocaine, April 7. While operating in U.S. Third Fleet, Freedom intercepted a high-speed vessel suspected of trafficking contraband. (U.S. Navy photo by U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment 107)

Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113) returns to Naval Base San Diego. - 210402-N-NN369-1031 SAN DIEGO (April 2, 2021) Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113) returns to Naval Base San Diego. John Finn, a part of the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group, returned to Naval Base San Diego April 2, after the ship’s maiden deployment to U.S. 7th Fleet in support of maritime security operations to ensure a free and open Indo-Pacific. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jessica Paulauskas)

Nimitz returns to San Diego - 210226-N-UV609-4184 SAN DIEGO (Feb. 26, 2021) Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) arrives Naval Air Station North Island, February 26. Nimitz Carrier Strike Group returned after a more than 10-month deployment to U.S. 5th Fleet and U.S. 7th Fleet, which included freedom of navigation operations and participation in Operations Freedom’s Sentinel, Inherent Resolve and Octave Quartz. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class David Mora Jr.)