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        11 April 2024    

                    USS Gunston Hall Returns Home After NATO Exercise Steadfast Defender 2024                 
                The Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44) returned home to Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, April 11, following Steadfast Defender 2024, NATO’s largest exercise in decades.             

        21 March 2024    

                    Bataan ARG, 26th MEU(SOC) Return from 8-month Deployment                 
                More than 4,000 Sailors and Marines assigned to the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and embarked 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) (MEU(SOC)) returned to Hampton Roads following an eight and a half-month deployment to the U.S. 2nd, 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operations,            

        13 February 2024    

                    U.S. 2nd Fleet forward deploys for Steadfast Defender 2024                 
                A contingent of more than 100 U.S. 2nd Fleet and Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 2 personnel are forward deployed to Bodø, Norway to establish a maritime command element, Commander Task Force North (CTF-N), in support of the NATO exercise Steadfast Defender 2024.            

        08 February 2023    

                    Blue-Green Dream Team: Integrating Navy and Marine Forces Aboard BATARG for PMINT                 
                Over the course of almost two weeks, the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (BATARG) and 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) successfully integrated with Amphibious Squadron 8 (PHIBRON 8) across the three ships Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5), San Antonio-class amphibious transport            

        13 October 2022    

                    Kearsarge ARG Returns after Deployment in the High North and Baltic Sea                 
                NORFOLK, Va. - Sailors and Marines assigned to the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) returned home to Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia after completing a seven-month deployment in the Sixth Fleet area of operations, Oct. 13.            

        01 September 2022    

                    USS Hershel “Woody” Williams Gold Crew awarded USCG Special Ops ribbon                 
                PORTSMOUTH, Va. – It was an April Fool’s Day for the ages and perhaps the signature moment for the USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) Gold Crew recently being awarded the United States Coast Guard Special Operations Service (SOS) Ribbon during a presentation last week by Coast Guard Vice Adm.            

        28 June 2022    

                    SECNAV presides over ESG2 change of command                 
                NORFOLK, VA — By 1030 on June 24, USS Bataan’s (LHD 5) hangar bay was full of Marines in midnight blue coats and Sailors in white chokers. Most of them chatted amongst themselves in hopes it might help kill the 30 remaining minutes before show time. A smaller handful scurried about non-skid to sort            

        19 April 2022    

                    Sailors celebrate Navy Week New Orleans 2022                 
                NEW ORLEANS - Several military vessels arrived to the Julia Street Cruise Terminal to kick off Navy Week New Orleans New Orleans April 18.            

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