U.S. Navy

An E2-C Hawkeye assigned to the Screwtops of Airborne Early Warning Squadron (VAW) 123 powers down on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69). The ship and its Carrier Strike Group are deployed in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the…

The brightest moon in almost 69 years sets behind the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). The ship is moored and homeported in San Diego. It is undergoing a scheduled Planned Maintenance Availability. 

U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, Lead Solo #5 Lt. Ryan Chamberlain completes the Minimum Radius Turn at the Sea and Sky Spectacular 2016 in Jacksonville, Florida. The Blue Angels are scheduled to perform more than 50 demonstrations across the U.S. in 2016, which is the team’s 70th anniversary year.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) approaches the Bosphorus Strait to transit out of the Black Sea Oct. 30, 2016. Carney, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe.

USS Ross (DDG 71), not shown, takes part in a photo exercise with the Charles de Gaulle carrier strike group. Ross, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is providing multi-warfare defense support to Charles de Gaulle carrier-based operations in the Eastern Mediterranean against identified ISIL positions in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.

U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, the Blue Angels, perform an Echelon Parade at Fleet Week San Francisco Air Show. The Blue Angels are scheduled to perform 56 demonstrations at 29 locations across the U.S. in 2016, which is the team’s 70th anniversary year.

Petty Officer 2nd Class (AW) Bobby Larose, from Stilwell, Oklahoma, assigned to the “Saberhawks” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 77, repairs a wire of a chip detector in the tail rotor gear box of an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter on the flight deck of the Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN…

The mast of the guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) during maneuvering while on patrol in the Mediterranean Sea Sept. 25, 2016. Carney, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting a routine patrol in the U.S. 6th fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe.

Three MV-22B Osprey tiltrotor aircraft with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (Reinforced), 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, prepare to land aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) during Valiant Shield 16 in the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Valiant Shield 16 is a biennial field training exercise designed to develop the integration of joint U.S.…

Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Theo Shively observes the stellar view in the Pacific Ocean from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) flight deck. Carl Vinson is currently underway undergoing Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV).