Up high or down low, these Sailors are #AlwaysReady to go!🤩They check all aircraft to make sure they're in tip-top shape, even in hard-to-reach places🔧 #GreaterEachDay
📸: Sailors conduct maintenance on aircraft aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (IKE)) #WeLikeIke #TheNavyWay

This ANZAC Day, members of Combined Maritime Forces gathered for a memorial service at dawn to pay tribute to the fallen.

ANZAC Day is a national day of remembrance in 🇦🇺 Australia and 🇳🇿 New Zealand to remember those who have served and died for their countries.

#AnzacDay

The USS Firebolt memorial ceremony, held on NSA Bahrain, honors the sacrifices made by two Sailors and a Coast Guardsman who died while conducting maritime security operations in the Arabian Gulf on April 24, 2004.

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There's no calling 911 when there's a fire at sea🔥so Sailors train to put out fires themselves!🧑‍🚒 #NavyReadiness
📸: Sailors conduct firefighting & crash and salvage team training aboard USS Gravely (DDG 107) in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations. #AlwaysReady #FirstToConquer

Combined Maritime Forces hosted senior military leaders from member and partner nations during a two-day annual maritime security conference in Manama, Bahrain, April 16-17. ⚓️

#ReadyTogether

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The world's largest maritime partnership, Combined Maritime Forces, welcomes Finland 🇫🇮 as its 43rd member!

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Transporting supplies between two ships always brings a storm of activity ⛈️, but we make it look like a breeze! 🍃
📸: Sailors from USS Mason (DDG 87) and an MH-60R Sea Hawk helicopter (HSM 74) do a replenishment at sea with USNS Supply (T-AOE 6). #AlwaysReady

Sailors don’t miss a spot during maintenance!✨Even if it means climbing to the highest point on the ship😵‍💫 #DontLookDown
📸: Sailors conduct weather preservation maintenance while working aloft aboard USS Gravely (DDG 107) #AlwaysReady #SafetyFirst

The Indian 🇮🇳 Navy Ship INS Talwar, operating in support of the Canadian-led 🇨🇦 Combined Task Force (CTF) 150, conducted its first interdiction of illicit narcotics as a member of Combined Maritime Forces, seizing 940 kg of drugs in the Arabian Sea 🌊, April, 13.

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The 🇬🇧 Royal Navy’s HMS Lancaster (Royal Navy), operating in support of Combined Maritime Forces' (@CMF_Bahrain) 🇨🇦 Canadian-led Combined Task Force (CTF) 150, carried out its second successful drug seizure in a week, seizing 2,000 kg of hashish from a dhow in the Arabian Sea,…

Combined Maritime Forces's 🇨🇦 Canadian-led Combined Task Force (CTF) 150 carried out two drug interdictions at sea with 🇬🇧 HMS Lancaster (@HMSLANCASTER) and 🇺🇸USCGC Clarence Sutphin Jr. (@USCG) in a single day as part of Focused Operation Crimson Barracuda in the Arabian Sea, April 10. The…

Out at sea, every day you’re reminded why the ocean’s called “The Big Blue”🌊 #JustSailorThings
📸: Sailors conduct search and rescue swimmer training during small boat ops alongside USS Gravely (DDG 107) in the Gulf of Aden, March 19. #AlwaysReady

#BZ to the crew of the USS Carney (DDG 64)!

Thank you for your time and service in the #us5thfleet area of operations.🫡

Fair winds and following seas🌊⚓️

Happy Birthday to all U.S. Submariners Past and Present! 🎉

On April 11, 1900 the U.S. Navy acquired its first commissioned submarine marking the birth of the U.S. Submarine Force. 🫧

Today, we celebrate our submarine fighting force with a 124th birthday ceremony. The ceremony…

Prep, set, launch, repeat! 🔁These Sailors make launching jets look easy! #NavysFinest 😎
📸: Sailors prepare and launch F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jets during flight operations aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (@theCVN69) in the Red Sea. #AlwaysReady

Quality control means EVERY aircraft on a U.S. carrier gets a full inspection before being allowed to fly✅, that’s just the #NavyWay 😎
📸:Sailors aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (@theCVN69) inspect and prep F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter jets for flight in the Red Sea. #AlwaysReady

Before the 1MC intercom system📢, the boatswain's call was used to quickly communicate orders. Now it's used during ceremonies to 'pipe aboard' and 'pipe ashore' important officers.🫡
📸: A Boatswain's Mate sounds a boatswain's pipe aboard USS Mason (DDG 87) in the Red Sea.

A 🇺🇸 U.S. Coast Guard cutter, working in direct support of Combined Task Force (CTF) 150 of Combined Maritime Forces, seized nearly 400 kilograms of illegal drugs from a dhow in the Arabian Sea, April 4.

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🇺🇸U.S. and 🇬🇧United Kingdom Naval Forces conducted a bilateral mine countermeasures exercise Poseidon's Chalice in the Arabian Sea from Feb. 24 - March 16.

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'Meeting the Sailors aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and USS Mason was a reminder of the tremendous responsibility we've entrusted with our young men and women to keep critical sea lanes open and secure. It's an honor serving with them.'

- VADM Wikoff, NAVCENT/C5F CDR USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (IKE)