Military Ceremonies Aboard Ships

A series of military ceremonies and meetings involving various armed forces personnel, emphasizing camaraderie and leadership in naval settings.

NORFOLK, Virginia (November 30, 2022) Commander, Military Sealift Command (MSC), Rear Adm. Michael Wettlaufer talks with Civil Service Mariner, Chief Mate Kentron Hawkins, aboard USNS John Lenthall (T-AO 189). Wettlaufer escorted Director of Operations, U.S. Transportation Command

CDR Ted Elkins re-enlists ABH1(AW/SW/IW) Darlene Rule, assigned to USS Wasp (LHD-1) during a ceremony aboard the Battleship Wisconsin in Downtown Norfolk on Wednesday, May 25, 2022. The ceremony was hosted by the Hampton Roads Naval Museum as part of their military ceremonies program that is available to area commands without cost. The museum is located next to the Battleship Wisconsin in Downtown Norfolk, Virginia.

Coast Guard Personnel - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-90-266. Coast Guardsman standing near construction area2. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-308-132. Hurricane Katrina

Secretary Dirk Kempthorne meeting at Main Interior with delegation of Idaho police officers

Donald E. Plater, executive director with Air Force Special Operations Command, Hurlburt Field, Florida, receives a briefing on unmanned aerial systems (UAS) at Guardian Centers training facility during Emerald Warrior 22.1 in Perry, Georgia, May 9, 2022. Emerald Warrior provides annual, realistic pre-deployment training encompassing multiple joint operating areas. The exercise prepares special operations forces, conventional force enablers, partner nations and interagency elements, to integrate with and execute full-spectrum special operations in any environment, sharpening U.S. forces abilities to operate around the globe. ( U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Wendy Day)

A Hometown Heroes receives a flag flown by the 77th Fighter Squadron during the Shaw Air and Space Expo at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, April 3, 2022. The 20th FW honored 20 individuals, nominated by their peers, for their tireless work within their communities to make them safer and improve the lives of those around them.

030416-M-1132B-040. Base: Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune State: North Carolina (NC) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: MCB Camp Lejeune

NORFOLK, Virginia (November 30, 2022) Commander, Military Sealift Command (MSC), Rear Adm. Michael Wettlaufer talks with Civil Service Mariner, Chief Mate Kentron Hawkins, aboard USNS John Lenthall (T-AO 189). Wettlaufer escorted Director of Operations, U.S. Transportation Command

President George W. Bush Visit - 26-HK-6-286. Hurricane Katrina

980616-F-1108F-010. Base: Mcchord Air Force Base State: Washington (WA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Katrina - General - 26-HK-410-83. Hurricane Katrina

LOS ANGELES (May 29, 2022) Damage Controlman 1st Class Gilbert Gonzalez discusses damage control equipment during a ship tour aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) during Los Angeles Fleet Week, May 29, 2022. Los Angeles Fleet Week is an opportunity for the American public to meet their Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard teams and experience America's sea services. During Fleet Week, service members participate in various community service events, showcase capabilities and equipment to the community, and enjoy the hospitality of Los Angeles and its surrounding areas.

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Jamestown Settlement, Virginia, where he joined National Park Service Director Fran Mainella and other officials for tours of the grounds and a re-created version of the 17th Century vessel, the Godspeed, as well as for other events marking the 400th anniversary of the founding of Jamestown

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Boston, Massachusetts, for tour of harbor and the historic U.S. Naval vessel, U.S.S. Constitution

Fire/Rescue Department personnel review tech order in front of a vehicle control panel. Air National Guradsmen from the 102nd Fighter Wing, Massachusetts ANG, Otis Air National Guard Base, MA and 169th Fighter Wing, South Carolina ANG, McEntire ANGB, SC, 27 July 1999. Base: Otis Air National Guard Base State: Massachusetts (MA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Coast Guard Personnel - 26-HK-413-36. Hurricane Katrina

Norfolk, Va. (June 01, 2022) - Chief Mate Maximilian Soucey, assigned to USNSJoshua Humphreys (T-AO-188), provides a brief on the ship's tank deck during the Senior Executive Advanced Leader Training (SALT) program tour of Humphreys June 1, 2022. The purpose of the tour was to provide Navy Senior Executives experiential insight of daily efforts required to support U.S. Fleet Forces Command's (USFFC) mission to man, train, equip, certify, and employ combat-ready Naval forces capable of conducting prompt, sustained naval, joint, and combined operations in support of U.S. national interests.

220524-N-XS877-5015 NAPLES, Italy (May 24, 2022) Religious Program Specialist 3rd Class Mark Cockroft acts as a wounded patient during the joint mass casualty training exercise onboard Naval Support Activity (NSA) Naples Support Site in Gricignano, Italy, May 24, 2022. The training was conducted by U.S. Naval Hospital Naples and NSA Naples Fire and Emergency Services. NSA Naples is an operational ashore base that enables U.S., allied, and partner nation forces to be where they are needed, when they are needed to ensure security and stability in the European, African, and Central Command areas of responsibility.

Photos from Aviation Training Center, Mobile - 26-HK-420-87. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-380-81. Hurricane Katrina

Katrina - General - 26-HK-411-68. Hurricane Katrina

Flooding Hurricane/Tropical Storm - Ludlow, Vt. , August 30, 2011 Administrator Craig Fugate (right) goes over a map of Ludlow with Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin (center) and General Dick Harris, Brigadier General, Vermont National Guard. They surveyed damages in the town following the inland flooding caused by Irene.. Vermont Hurricane Irene. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

Members of the Air & Space Forces Association speak to pilots assigned to the 333rd Fighter Squadron during the AFA Legends Tour at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, Aug. 22, 2022.The AFA works to advocate and promote aerospace power that will favorably shape policy and resourcing decisions.

Inter-American Defense College Staff, Faculty and Students tour Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pa., Sept. 23, 2022. The Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. There are 43,000 American Civil War artifacts that are displayed in the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center. The Visit It is an academic field study that is part of the master's program offered by the college.

Incident Command Post - 26-HK-406-29. Hurricane Katrina

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to the U.S.S. Arizona Memorial, Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii, for tours, discussions with local officials

Material from Vice Admiral Allen - VIP Tours - 26-HK-375-52. Hurricane Katrina

Admiral Collins Visit - 26-HK-3-48. Admiral Collins talking with active-duty USCG in JFO-type building. Hurricane Katrina

Coast Guard Cutters - Dauntless (WMEC 624) - 26-HK-73-68. CGC Dauntless -- Coast Guardsmen at table on commercial vessel -- 050928. Hurricane Katrina

050309-A-5975H-004. Base: Fort Mccoy State: Wisconsin (WI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Congressional Delegation Oversight Visit - 26-HK-7-40. CAPT David Callahan (CO ATC Mobile) greeting civilian dignitaries on ATC ramp. Hurricane Katrina

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to San Francisco and vicinity, California, for touring, meetings with Interior personnel, classroom activities, and trip to Alcatraz Island

Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, LA, September 4, 2005 -- Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff meets with members of the FEMA Urban Search and Rescue task forces at the base of operations set up at the Saint's training facility prior to going out on the day's missions.

Jason Tong (center), Sierra Army Depot supply support activity director, speaks with (left to right) Thomas Carlisle, Anniston Army Depot deputy to the commander, May 10, 2022; as Brian Butler, U.S. Army Tank-automotive and Armaments Command deputy to the commander and Alice Crayon, Watervliet Arsenal deputy to the commander, look on. Sierra Army Depot hosted the U.S. Army TACOM deputy to the commander as well as the deputies of TACOMs four other Organic Industrial Base locations at Sierra Army Depot located in Herlong, Calif. The group used the opportunity to talk about the U.S. Army supply chain, supply chain operations and issues that effect the wider Organic Industrial Base.

Congressmen Visit Mobile Aviation Training Center - 26-HK-4-81. Hurricane Katrina

Interior Operations - 26-HK-81-31. CG Interior Ops--CG personnel lined up in hallway with meal trays, 050829. Hurricane Katrina

In support of MICC Tasker T-22-263-02 ACC Command Video

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-308-38. Hurricane Katrina

U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Kevin Groom, center, 420th Air Base Squadron director of operations, provides a base tour for the 501st Combat Support Wing Readiness Working Group to Royal Air Force Fairford, England, April 27, 2022. The group attended an immersion tour at RAF Welford and RAF Fairford to orient themselves with the missions these bases provide.

Col. Katy Millwood, 155th Operations Group commander, explains the new additions and renovations to retired RF-4 pilots, Aug. 6, 2022, during a tour at Lincoln Air Force Base, Neb. The Nebraska Air National Guard flew RF-4C Phantoms from 1971 to 1993 before the unit transitioned to the KC-135R Stratotanker.

Department of the Interior-hosted dinner event honoring wounded veterans, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and other senior officials presiding

R. Lee Gunny” Ermey, center, speaks to fellow participants of the Marine Corps Identity Cause rally at Bullfeathers of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., Feb. 25, 2010. Marine Corps Identity Cause is a grassroots effort founded in 2009 to give Marines equal status to the Navy. The initiative, sponsored by the Marine Corps League, has one simple goal: to change the name of the Department of the Navy to the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps.” Two bills supporting this cause are currently in Congress.

This photo was taken on August 25, 2022 as part of a project to produce a poster that displays the diversity of U.S. Army NATO Brigade Soldiers and their families during the units annual organization day. The brigade provides support to roughly 1,300 Soldiers and their families to provide ready and resilient Soldiers to the NATO alliance, maintain our joint and multinational partnerships and enhance the alliance. The brigade is the U.S. Army support element for 44 NATO organizations across 81 locations in 22 countries.

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-380-100. Hurricane Katrina

Annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally "Ride for Freedom"--on behalf of the Prisoners of War-Missing in Action (POW/MIA) cause--through Washington, D.C., with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne among the participants

Annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally and related events on the National Mall, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne among officials on hand

Staff Sgt. Shawn Niemira, an airman in the 107th Attack Wing Operations Group, conducts a training for Boy Scout Troop 650 on Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, Niagara Falls, New York, 11 June, 2022. The Troop is working on their emergency preparedness merit badge. Air National Guard Photo by Senior Airman Daniel Meade

Polish Defense Minister Mariusz Błaszczak speaks with U.S. contractors and Polish tank crewmen during the opening ceremony of the Abrams Tank Training Academy at Biedrusko, Poland, Aug. 10, 2022. The Abrams Tank Training Academy was established to teach Polish tank crewmen on operations, tactics and maintenance of the M1 Abrams tanks, bringing the U.S. and Poland closer as allies.

Randy Berry, the 88th Readiness Division's wildlife biologist at the U.S. Army Reserve Joliet Local Training Area, Elwood, Ill., pauses before the entrance to his office on the JLTA May 10, 2022. Berry spent almost six years as a U.S. Navy air traffic controller before pursuing his passion of working outdoors.

Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Marine Safety Office St. Louis - 26-HK-121-169. Hurricane Katrina

Material from Vice Admiral Allen - VIP Tours - 26-HK-375-131. Hurricane Katrina

Coast Guard Personnel - Supplies - 26-HK-84-83. CG Personnel With Supplies -- CG NSF members wrapping boxes in storage area, 050901b. Hurricane Katrina

Congressional Delegation Oversight Visit - 26-HK-7-44. CAPT David Callahan (CO ATC Mobile) standing with CODEL member outdoors at ATC. Hurricane Katrina

Department of the Interior-hosted dinner event honoring wounded veterans, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and other senior officials presiding

Department of the Interior-hosted dinner event honoring wounded veterans, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and other senior officials presiding

Coast Guard Relief Assistance - 26-HK-292-1. Hurricane Katrina

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-380-37. Hurricane Katrina

Coast Guard Personnel - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-90-247. Coast Guardsman sitting and talking on cell phone outside. Hurricane Katrina

Miscellaneous - Coast Guard Operations - 26-HK-433-124. Hurricane Katrina

Sector New Orleans - Aftermath - 26-HK-149-43. Hurricane Katrina

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-309-56. Hurricane Katrina

A F-16 pilot from the Oklahoma Air National Guard's 138th Fighter Wing, Detachment 1, prepares to take-off from Ellington Field, Texas in support of North American Aerospace Defense Command's (NORAD) Operation Noble Defender (OND), June 29, 2022. As a part of OND, which is a recurring operation, the Continental U.S. NORAD Region (CONR) coordinated and conducted joint operations with the U.S. Navy while concurrently launching jets from different locations across the United States' gulf coast and Puerto Rico. OND, is an integrated air and missile defense operation designed to ensure the defense and security of the northern and southern approaches to North America. This particular OND allowed NORAD units to exercise maneuvers designed to defend the southern approach to the United States from simulated cruise missile threats. NORAD is a bi-national Canadian and American command that employs a network of aerial, ground-based, and space-based sensors, air-to-air refueling tankers, and fighte

Christina Bergmann (right), 802nd Security Forces Squadron honorary commander, receives a tour in a T-38 from U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Benjamin Williams (left), 560th Flying Training Squadron commander, during an honorary commanders program tour, Aug. 17, 2022, at Joint Base San Antonio-Randolph, Texas. The honorary commanders program enhances the knowledge of community leaders regarding the missions, policies, programs and people of the U.S. military, while fostering a supportive relationship between the military and the community.

Sgt. Ethan Isaacs, a Fort Carson Mountain Color Guard (FCMCG) Soldier, carries a jumping pole to build the competition area for the 2022 National Calvary Competition on the historic landmark Fort Reno in El Reno, Okla., Sept. 19, 2022. The 2022 National Calvary Competition will be the first time this team of FCMCG will be competing at the national level.

John Nash, Secretary of Military and Veteran Affairs of Oklahoma (center) shakes hands with Robert Cox, a member of the Oklahoma Strategic Military Planning Commission, at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma, Oct. 11, 2022. Nash is an Oklahoma native who played basketball at the University of Oklahoma before commissioning as an officer with the U.S. Army.

Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Marine Safety Office St. Louis - 26-HK-122-83. Hurricane Katrina

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers employees Allen Roos, left, and Tom Spencer, discusses a site assessment of a critical infrastructure at a public school in Fort Myers, Florida, Oct. 11. There are currently more than 280 USACE employees deployed to Florida that are actively supporting FEMA and the states recovery operations.

Disaster Assistance Response Teams (DART) - Return - 26-HK-118-103. Hurricane Katrina

Annual Antietam National Battlefield Memorial Illumination ceremony, Sharpsburg, Maryland, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne among the participants

U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Mark Gonzalez, 47th Student Squadron training pilot, guides a group of students from Brackett Junior High school around a T-6 at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, on May 25, 2022. The students were able to see T-6s, T-38s, and T-1s during the tour.

061208-N-5248R-018. Base: USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - TURRET HOMECOMING USS MONITOR

Department of the Interior-hosted dinner event honoring wounded veterans, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and other senior officials presiding

060421-N-1924T-006. Base: Norfolk State: Virginia (VA) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-378-56. Hurricane Katrina

Lt. Gen. Scott L. Pleus, 7th Air Force commander, pulls a pair of attenuating custom communications earpiece system (ACCES) ear plugs out of a case at Kunsan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Dec. 8, 2022. The ACCES ear plugs help pilots listen to the radios in the F-16 Fighting Falcon while blocking out the noise from the jet engine.

Former and present commanders and command chief master sergeants of the 172nd Airlift Wing gathered to serve lunch to Airmen and full-time staff at the Wings dining facility on April 6, 2022.

U.S. Park Police promotion ceremony, with Secretary Dirk Kempthorne among the dignitaries on hand

Jay Carr, JMC Deputy to the Commander visits Crane Army's Blockers and Bracers.

Katrina - General - 26-HK-409-53. Hurricane Katrina

Participants in a Community Leader Engagement visit the subway training facility at the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility on April 19, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than a dozen community leaders from Tomah, Sparta, and other nearby municipalities gathered at Fort McCoy to see the posts mission first-hand. During their visit, the community leaders received a driving tour of the installation and made stops at the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility on South Post, Fort McCoy Commemorative Area, Fort McCoy Simulations Training Complex in the 200 block on the cantonment area, Garrison Headquarters, and McCoys Community Center where they received a lunch.

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Pima County, Arizona for tours of the Mexican border area, discussions with local Interior staff and Customs and Border Patrol personnel

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-380-141. Hurricane Katrina

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to San Francisco and vicinity, California, for touring, meetings with Interior personnel, classroom activities, and trip to Alcatraz Island

Coast Guard Personnel - 26-HK-412-6. Hurricane Katrina

Inter-American Defense College Staff, Faculty and Students tour Gettysburg National Military Park, Gettysburg, Pa., Sept. 23, 2022. The Park protects and interprets the landscape of the 1863 Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War. There are 43,000 American Civil War artifacts that are displayed in the Gettysburg Museum and Visitor Center. The Visit It is an academic field study that is part of the master's program offered by the college.

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Mississippi (Nov. 15, 2022) - Rear Adm. Ronald Piret, Commander, Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command, left, discusses operations with Rear Adm. Lorin Selby, Chief of Naval Research, on an official visit to become familiar with Naval Oceanography activities at Stennis Space Center. Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command directs and oversees more than 2,500 globally-distributed military and civilian personnel who collect, process and exploit environmental information to assist Fleet and Joint Commanders in all warfare areas to make better decisions faster than the adversary.

040220-A-1526R-093. Base: Puerto Cortes Country: Honduras (HND)

Participants in a Community Leader Engagement visit the subway training facility at the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility on April 19, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than a dozen community leaders from Tomah, Sparta, and other nearby municipalities gathered at Fort McCoy to see the posts mission first-hand. During their visit, the community leaders received a driving tour of the installation and made stops at the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility on South Post, Fort McCoy Commemorative Area, Fort McCoy Simulations Training Complex in the 200 block on the cantonment area, Garrison Headquarters, and McCoys Community Center where they received a lunch.

Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and aides to Pima County, Arizona for tours of the Mexican border area, discussions with local Interior staff and Customs and Border Patrol personnel

ESU Incident Command Post New Orleans - Miscellaneous - 26-HK-309-88. Hurricane Katrina

Yorktown, Va. (February 7, 2024) Robert Ituarte, Emergency Operations Center Director and Jeremy Johns, Emergency Operations Center Manager review planning materials at the Emergency Operations Center (EOC) onboard Naval Weapons Station Yorktown. NWS Yorktowns was staffed as part of the larger Exercise Citadel Shield-Solid Curtain 2024 (CS-SC24). CS-SC24 is an annual, two-part force protection exercise conducted by U.S. Fleet Forces Command and Commander, Navy Installations Command on all CONUS Navy installations. Navy

050615-A-7734M-030. Base: Lansing State: Michigan (MI) Country: United States Of America (USA)

Inter-American Defense College Leadership, students and staff participate in a 9/11 Never Forget Challenge on Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C., Sept. 9, 2022. The event included a 2,200 steps per teams in relay mode activity to remember the fallen, the injured and everyone who was impacted by the events of 9/11. The steps challenge was designed simulate the equivalent steps of the World Trade Center Tower.

040306-N-0000N-008. Base: Baltimore State: Maryland (MD) Country: United States Of America (USA)

030123-F-0558K-006. Base: Barksdale Air Force Base State: Louisiana (LA) Country: United States Of America (USA) Scene Major Command Shown: ACC

William Moody, a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) technician with Facilities Maintenance Branch, Public Works Division (PWD), Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center (MCAGCC), opens a compartment on his repair truck while operating on an air conditioning unit at MCGACC, Twentynine Palms, California, July 22, 2022. Despite the extreme heat of the high desert, the PWD, HVAC section maintains performance of air-cooling systems on buildings at the Combat Center.

John Holland, Nevada Test and Training Range EOD technician, speaks with a contractor who built intelligence representative targets at the Nevada Test and Training Range, Nevada, August 5, 2022. NTTR personnel worked with contractors to build intelligence representative targets that assist users of the NTTR during training missions for realistic experience and outcome.

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Nicholas Schoonover, right, an amphibious combat vehicle crewman assigned to 3rd Assault Amphibian Battalion, Task Force Los Angeles, presents a child with a sticker at the Los Angeles Fleet Week exposition site in San Pedro, California, May 29, 2022. The purpose of Fleet Week is to showcase the capabilities of the Navy-Marine Corps team and give back to the community with events, static displays, and personal interactions between service members and the public.

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