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\n Minister of Defence of Finland Antti H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen, center, poses for a photo with Sailors aboard USS Benfold (DDG 65) during a visit to Fleet Activities Yokosuka. (MC2 Caitlin Flynn)\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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During the visit, H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen toured the DESRON 15 command cave and met with staff members. After the visit to the cave, H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen transitioned to the waterfront and visited USS Benfold (DDG 65) to meet with the captain and crew.<\/p>\n
H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen is Finland’s 59th minister of defense. He has served as minister of defense in Petteri Orpo’s government since June 20, 2023.<\/p>\n
DESRON 15 is the Navy’s largest forward-deployed destroyer squadron and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force. It is forward deployed to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations in support of security and stability in the Indo-Pacific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cWe welcome the visit from Finland\u2019s minister of defense and his supporting team,\u201d said Capt. Justin Harts, commander of\u00a0Destroyer Squadron 15. \u201cWe hope to continue goodwill visits such as these from our partners and allies across the globe in to enhance surface operations in the Indo-Pacific region.\u201d Minister of Defence of Finland Antti H\u00e4kk\u00e4nen speaks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":281421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281419","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\/281419","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=281419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281425,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281419\/revisions\/281425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/281421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=281419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adn.monetizemail.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=281419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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