SAN DIEGO (March 29, 2017) Special Operator 1st Class T.J. Amdahl, assigned to the U.S. Navy parachute demonstration team, the Leap Frogs, flies the Star-Spangled Banner during a training demonstration above the USS Midway Museum. The Leap Frogs are based in San Diego and perform aerial parachute demonstrations around the nation in support of Naval Special Warfare and Navy recruiting. (U.S. Navy photo by Jim Woods/Released)
SAN DIEGO (March 30, 2017) The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Pasadena (SSN 752) returns to Naval Base Point Loma, San Diego, after a six-month deployment to the western Pacific. (U.S. Navy photos by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Benjamin A. Lewis/Released)
RIJEKA, Croatia (March 29, 2017) Capt. Kavon Hakimzadeh, commanding officer of the U.S. 6th Fleet command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20), and Julieta Valls Noyes, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, walk to the ship at Viktor Lenac shipyard in Rijeka, Croatia. Mount Whitney is forward-deployed to Gaeta, Italy, operating with a combined crew of U.S. Navy Sailors and Military Sealift Command civil service mariners. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael Feddersen/Released)
NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (April 1, 2017) Sailors assigned to pre-commissioning unit aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) remove chain pipe covers in preparation for an anchoring evolution. This exercise ensures proper operations as Ford continues to prepare for sea. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jason Pastrick/Released)
Soon aboard Gerald R Ford the word will be passed;
0700...Now go to your stations on the Special Sea and Anchor detail!
0701..All hands make preparations for getting underway!
0702...Gerald R Ford expects to get underway at time 0900!
0800..All damage control petty officers make damage control reports to DC Central!!
0815...ALL visitors are requested to leave the ship at this time!
0830...The officer of the deck is shifting his watch from the quarterdeck to the Navigational Bridge..dial 2001 or 2002.
0840..The afterbrow and the officers brow are closed!
0900..Underway! Shift colors!!
AAAAARRRRRVVVVV!!!!!