{"id":19505,"date":"2023-07-20T12:04:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T12:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=19505"},"modified":"2023-07-21T06:41:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T06:41:35","slug":"uss-roosevelt-ddg-80-arrives-in-klaipeda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/?p=19505","title":{"rendered":"USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) Arrives in Klaip\u0117da"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Prior to arriving in Klaip\u0117da, Roosevelt patrolled the Baltic Sea, sailing alongside NATO\u2019s Standing NATO Maritime Group (SNMG) 1 flagship FGS Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (F218) and HNLMS De Zeven Provincien (F 802), underscoring the strength and interoperability of the NATO Alliance.<\/p>\n

Roosevelt joined the enhanced vigilance activity Neptune Strike 2023-2 in mid-July, supporting the integration of U.S. and NATO Allied and partner forces to provide assurance, deterrence, and collective defense operating under control of NATO and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO). In addition, Roosevelt also participated in a Naval Surface Fire Support exercise in partnership with the Latvian military and conducted a scheduled port visit in Helsinki, Finland, July 15-18.<\/p>\n

While in Helsinki, the ship onloaded fuel, mail, and stores, and Sailors were able to experience the rich culture of Finland while on liberty in the local area. Roosevelt\u2019s visit to Helsinki came on the heels of President Biden\u2019s visit to Finland to welcome the country as the newest member to the NATO Alliance.<\/p>\n

The current port visit to Klaip\u0117da also comes shortly after NATO\u2019s Vilnius Summit, hosted by Lithuania. Roosevelt\u2019s presence in the Baltic Sea and port visits to Baltic Sea Allies demonstrates demonstrate the U.S. Navy\u2019s commitment to working with Allies and regional partners to ensure security and stability in the region.<\/p>\n

\u201cOver the past nine months, Roosevelt has operated in the Baltic Sea on three separate occasions- we love it up here. The ability to operate, train, and communicate with our NATO allies in the Baltic has been extremely rewarding. We recently conducted a gunnery exercise where we shot our 5″ gun onto the Skede range in Latvia using NATO spotters on the beach,\u201d said Cmdr. J Chewning, Roosevelt\u2019s Commanding Officer. \u201cIn addition, we just completed a port visit in Helsinki where USS Roosevelt was honored to be the first U.S. warship to visit Finland since joining NATO.”<\/p>\n

While in Klaip\u0117da, Roosevelt will participate in the 63rd<\/sup> Annual Sea Festival, a festival promoting Lithuania as a maritime state and Klaip\u0117da as a friendly and safe port city. Roosevelt will welcome locals and members of the Lithuanian military onboard for tours and a luncheon and participate in a local parade and other community events.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe’re especially excited to be back in Lithuania for Navy Day celebrations,\u201d said Chewning. \u201cWe pulled into Klaip\u0117da in January, and it’s a real treat for the crew to visit the port twice in one year.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Roosevelt and her crew are operating in the Baltic Sea on a scheduled deployment in the Baltic region, employed by the U.S, Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests.<\/p>\n

Roosevelt, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, began its fifth Forward Deployed Naval Forces-Europe (FDNF-E) patrol June 27 in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. Sixth Fleet to defend U.S., allied and partner interests.<\/p>\n

Headquartered in Naples, Italy, NAVEUR-NAVAF operates U.S. naval forces in the U.S. European Command (USEUCOM) and U.S. Africa Command (USAFRICOM) areas of responsibility. U.S. Sixth Fleet is permanently assigned to NAVEUR-NAVAF, and employs maritime forces through the full spectrum of joint and naval operations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prior to arriving in Klaip\u0117da, Roosevelt patrolled the Baltic Sea, sailing alongside NATO\u2019s Standing NATO Maritime Group (SNMG) 1 flagship FGS Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (F218) and HNLMS De Zeven Provincien (F 802), underscoring the strength and interoperability of the NATO Alliance. Roosevelt joined the enhanced vigilance activity Neptune Strike 2023-2 in mid-July, supporting the integration of U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19505"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19508,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19505\/revisions\/19508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}