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COVID-19 Pandemic Shows Mariners Are Essential Workers, Experts Say

19 December 2020

Daniel Murphy, a deck cadet with United States Merchants Marine, supervises as cargo is transported into the Green Cove with equipment being sent to the Distribution Management Office Yermo, Calif., on July 6 at Naha Port in Okinawa, Japan. MSC Photo

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted why mariners – from ferry crews to masters of Triple E-class container ships – are “essential workers,” while questioning future shipbuilding and threatening the survival of smaller shipping companies, two...

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/18/covid-19-pandemic-shows-mariners-are-essential-workers-experts-say

U.S. Maritime Strategy: Advantage at Sea

17 December 2020

The following is the U.S. Sea Services’ new maritime strategy, Advantage at Sea: Prevailing with Integrated All-Domain Naval Power that was released by the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard on Dec. 17, 2020.

From the report

The United States is a maritime nation. Our security and prosperity depend on the seas. Since the end of World War II, the United States has built, led, and advanced a rules-based international system through shared commitments with our allies and partners. Forward deployed...

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/17/u-s-maritime-strategy-advantage-at-sea

Document: COVID-19 and the International Security Environment

16 December 2020

The following is the Dec. 14, 2020 Congressional Research Service report, COVID-19: Potential Implications for International Security Environment—Overview of Issues and Further Reading for Congress.

From the report

Some observers argue the COVID-19 pandemic could be a world-changing event with potentially profound and long-lasting implications for the international security environment and the U.S. role in the world. Other observers are more skeptical that the COVID-19 pandemic will have such...

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/16/document-covid-19-and-the-international-security-environment

Document: COVID-19 and the International Security Environment

16 December 2020

From the report

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/16/document-covid-19-and-the-international-security-environment

Marine Infantry Training Shifts From ‘Automaton’ to Thinkers, as School Adds Chess to the Curriculum

15 December 2020

Infantry Training Battalion instructors play chess in their instructor ready room at School of Infantry-West at Camp Pendleton, Calif. US Marine Corps photo.

The Marine Corps is about to revolutionize infantry training, more than doubling the length of initial training for enlisted infantry Marines and weighing consolidation of its core grunt specialties into a single, all-around infantry warfighter.

The transition – which aims to build Marines adept in ground weaponry that can tackle the...

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/15/marine-infantry-training-shifts-from-automaton-to-thinkers-as-school-adds-chess-to-the-curriculum

LCS USS Gabrielle Giffords Nabs Narco Sub in the Pacific

15 December 2020

USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) with embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) 407 conducts enhanced counter-narcotics operations, Dec. 5, 2020. US Navy Photo

Operating in the Eastern Pacific with a Coast Guard law enforcement detachment (LEDET) aboard, the USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) interdicted a so-called narco submarine on Dec. 5.

Narco submarines are one way that drug traffickers smuggle cocaine from Colombia to markets in North America. Littoral Combat Ship Giffords...

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/14/lcs-uss-gabrielle-giffords-nabs-narco-sub-in-the-pacific

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Dec. 14, 2020

14 December 2020

USNI News Graphic

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout the world as of Dec. 14, 2020, based on Navy and public data. In cases where a CSG or ARG is conducting disaggregated operations, the chart reflects the location of the capital ship.

Total U.S. Navy Battle Force:296Ships Underway

Deployed Ships Underway	Non-deployed Ships Underway	Total Ships Underway
51	23	74

Ships Deployed by Fleet

Fleet Forces

3r...

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/14/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-dec-14-2020

USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Dec. 14, 2020

14 December 2020

USNI News Graphic

Total U.S. Navy Battle Force:296Ships Underway

Deployed Ships Underway	Non-deployed Ships Underway	Total Ships Underway
51	23	74

Ships Deployed by Fleet

Fleet Forces

3r...

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/14/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-dec-14-2020

Search Ends for Missing USS Theodore Roosevelt Sailor

13 December 2020

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) returns to San Diego, Calif., on July 9, 2020. US Navy Photo

The Navy and Coast Guard have ended the search for a sailor believed to have gone overboard from aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) on Thursday, U.S. 3rd Fleet announced.

“The search ended at sunset Saturday after Theodore Roosevelt, USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), USS Russell (DDG-59), USS Howard (DDG-83), USS Charleston (LCS-18), USS Portland (LPD 27) the U.S. Coast Guard and both fixed and...

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/12/search-ends-for-missing-uss-theodore-roosevelt-sailor

Search Ends for Missing USS Theodore Roosevelt Sailor

13 December 2020

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) returns to San Diego, Calif., on July 9, 2020. US Navy Photo

The Navy and Coast Guard have ended the search for a sailor believed to have gone overboard from aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) on Thursday, U.S. 3rd Fleet announced.

https://news.usni.org/2020/12/12/search-ends-for-missing-uss-theodore-roosevelt-sailor

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