JUNE 7, 2024 - Eighty years ago today, June 6, 1944, 132,500 Allied forces stormed ashore on France’s Normandy coast to begin the final liberation of Europe from Nazi rule. It was the biggest amphibious operation the world has ever seen. Nearly 12,000 Allied aircraft and 7,000 ships landed 132,000 troops on the beaches or by parachute behind German lines. By the end of … [Read more...]

JUNE 4, 2024 — U.S. Sixth Fleet’s Task Force (TF) 66 and TF-68 participated in the Romanian-led operational exercise Dacia 2024, May 27 - June 3, 2024. Exercise Dacia is a tactical-level exercise in the Black Sea, inside Romanian territorial waters, consisting of rapid environmental analysis, mine countermeasures, logistics support and communications with NATO Allies and … [Read more...]

MAY 31, 2024 - The U. S. Navy will commission the future USS Kingsville (LCS 36), an Independence-variant littoral combat ship, August 24 in Corpus Christi, Texas. The naming of LCS 36 honors the town of Kingsville, Texas, as well as the King Ranch. Katherine Kline, the ship’s sponsor, is a member of the sixth generation of the King Ranch family, descendants of steamboat … [Read more...]

MAY 30, 2024 - The U.S. Navy Parachute Team (NPT), the “Leap Frogs,” is scheduled to participate in this year’s 80th anniversary commemoration of D-Day from May 31 to June 11, in Normandy, France. The successful D-Day invasion changed the momentum of World War II and led to the Allies’ ultimate triumph over Nazi Germany. ‘D-Day 80’ will consist of more than 120 … [Read more...]

MAY 28, 2024 - Even as new Navy ensigns and Marine Corps second lieutenants were being commissioned at the U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Central Command issued a release on the latest threat to mariners in the Red Sea. "At approximately 7:26 a.m. on May 23, Iranian-backed Houthis launched two antiship, ballistic missiles into the Red Sea," the Centcom release said. "There were no … [Read more...]