“Faces of the Fleet” takes a look at YOUR Navy operating forward. These images represent the greatest Sailors in the greatest Navy in the world leading from the deck plates, and completing missions around the globe. This is your fleet and these are your Sailors! Hooyah, Navy.
Sailors assigned to U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka stand at parade rest during a dress white uniform inspection to prepare for the summer uniform shift.Gas Turbine System Technician (Mechanical) 3rd Class gives commands to his fire teams as they fight a simulate an aircraft fire during a crash and salvage drill aboard USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51).Seabees from the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 Civic Construction Action Detail (CCAD) Philippines construct two classrooms onto an existing schoolhouse with soldiers from the Philippine Army.Sailors assigned to USS Hopper (DDG 70) disembark the ship upon arrival to homeport at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam from an independent deployment to the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Demarco Scott demonstrates donning a self-contained breathing apparatus mask for Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman Rebecca Rozell while participating in fire fighting training aboard USS Bataan (LHD 5).Construction Electrician 1st Class Jason Van de Walker, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 28, holds his four-month-old daughter for the first time after his return from an eight-month deployment in Afghanistan.