The Pre-Commissioning Unit Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) cruises under the Coronado Bridge in San Diego Bay, Dec. 7. The future USS Michael Monsoor is the second ship in the Zumwalt-class of guided-missile destroyers and will undergo a combat availability and test period. The ship is scheduled to be commissioned into the Navy Jan. 26, 2019, in Coronado, Calif. (U.S. Navy photos by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Jacob I. Allison)
GREAT LAKES, Ill. (Dec. 7, 2018) Performance division recruits carry state flags during a pass-in-review graduation ceremony inside Midway Ceremonial Drill Hall at Recruit Training Command. More than 30,000 recruits graduate annually from the Navy's only boot camp. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Spencer Fling)
GREAT LAKES, Ill. (Dec. 7, 2018) The recruit ceremonial honor guard stands at parade rest during a pass-in-review graduation ceremony inside Midway Ceremonial Drill Hall at Recruit Training Command. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Spencer Fling)
PACIFIC OCEAN (DEC 06, 2018) The guided missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91) launches a MK 54 recoverable exercise torpedo (REXTORP) out of a surface vessel torpedo tube during a live fire exercise. Pinckney is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Bryan Niegel)
ONBOARD USS BLUE RIDGE, Yokosuka Japan (Dec. 7, 2018) - The daughter of Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Adrienne Ramirez, attached to U.S. 7th Fleet Flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), poses for a picture while sitting in the Executive Officer's chair in the pilot house during the ship's first Family Day Cruise in three years. Blue Ridge is the oldest operational ship in the Navy, and as 7th Fleet command ship, is responsible for patrolling and fostering relationships within the Indo-Asia Pacific Region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick Semales/RELEASED)
ONBOARD USS BLUE RIDGE, Yokosuka Japan (Dec. 7, 2018) - Damage Controlman 2nd Class Mohammed Hasan and Damage Controlman 2nd Class Brian Mondestin, both attached to U.S. 7th Fleet Flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), help children take turns manning a fire hose during the ship's first Family Day Cruise in three years. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick Semales/RELEASED)
ONBOARD USS BLUE RIDGE, Yokosuka Japan(Dec. 7, 2018) - Seaman Jacqueline Mooney, attached to U.S. 7th Fleet Flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), teaches children how to properly secure a safety line during the ship's first Family Day Cruise in three years. Blue Ridge is the oldest operational ship in the Navy, and as 7th Fleet command ship, is responsible for patrolling and fostering relationships within the Indo-Asia Pacific Region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick
Semales/RELEASED)
ONBOARD USS BLUE RIDGE, Yokosuka Japan (Dec. 7, 2018) - Damage Controlman 2nd Class Mohammed Hasan, attached to U.S. 7th Fleet Flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), helps children take turns manning a fire hose during the ship's first Family Day Cruise in three years. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick Semales/RELEASED)
ONBOARD USS BLUE RIDGE, Yokosuka Japan (Dec. 7, 2018) - A Sailor and his family pose for a photo on the main deck of U.S. 7th Fleet Flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) during the ship's first Family Day Cruise in three years. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Patrick Semales/RELEASED)
SAN DIEGO (Dec. 7, 2018) The Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) arrives in homeport of San Diego. The future USS Michael Monsoor is the second ship in the Zumwalt-class of guided- missile destroyers and will undergo a combat availability and test period. The ship is scheduled to be commissioned into the U.S. Navy Jan 26, 2019 in Coronado, Cailf. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Nicholas Huynh/Released)
PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 05, 2018) The guided missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91), launches an Anti-Submarine Rocket (ASROC) MK 46 exercise torpedo during a live fire exercise. Pinckney is underway conducting routine operations in the U.S. 3rd Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Apprentice Madysson Anne Ritter/Released)
MADANG, Papua New Guinea (Dec. 7, 2018) U.S. Navy Diver 1st Class James Mostek, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Company ONE-SIX, embarked aboard USNS Salvor (T-ARS 52), waits on a diving stage during a two-hour decompression stop after diving to 240 feet. The sailor is completing a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) underwater recovery mission searching for personnel who went missing during WWII. DPAA conducts global search, recovery and laboratory operations to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Tyler Thompson/Released)
ATLANTIC OCEAN (Dec. 5, 2018) Sailors man a .50 caliber gun mount aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Eddie Ortiz/Released)
PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 8, 2018) An F-35C Lightning II assigned to the “Argonauts” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 147 makes an arrested landing on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Matthew Granito/Released)
PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 8, 2018) President Donald Trump provides the ceremonial coin-toss at the Army-Navy football game, attended by Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Russell Smith. This is the 119th meeting between the U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen and the U.S. Army Black Knights in which Navy has a 60-51-7 record all time. Navy lost to Army 17-7. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Elliott Fabrizio/Released)
PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 8, 2018) An F-35C Lightning II assigned to the “Argonauts” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 147 prepares to make an arrested landing on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). (U.S. Navy Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Matthew Granito/Released)
PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 8, 2018) Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Christian Cottman directs an F-35C Lightning II assigned to the “Argonauts” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 147 on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ethan J. Soto/Released)
PACIFIC OCEAN (Dec. 8, 2018) An F-35C Lightning II assigned to the “Argonauts” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 147 launches from the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ethan J. Soto/Released)
PHILIPPINE SEA (Nov. 02, 2018) Carrier Air Wing FIVE operates at night on the flight deck of the forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) during Keen Sword 2019. Keen Sword 2019 is a joint, bilateral field-training exercise involving U.S. military and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel, designed to increase combat readiness and interoperability of the Japan-U.S. alliance. (U.S. Navy photos by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class MacAdam Kane Weissman)
