Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Brittney Kinsey | Expeditionary Combat Camera | 10.20.2017
U.S. and Guatemalan military personnel marked the conclusion of partner nation engagements in Guatemala and the end of Southern Partnership Station 17 (SPS 17), in a closing ceremony held at Commando Naval del Caribe, a Guatemalan naval base, Oct. 20....
Story by Seaman Kristen Yarber | USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) | 09.29.2017
Expeditionary fast transport vessel USNS Spearhead (T-EPF 1) picked up Joint Task Force Leeward Islands (JTF-LI) personnel at Philipsburg, Sint Maarten, Sept. 29, 2017. 31 people, including U.S. military personnel and members of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), boarded Spearhead and loaded their equipment onto the ship’s mission bay....
Story by Sgt. Crystal Madriz | 55th Public Affairs Company (Combat Camera) | 09.20.2017
For one U.S. Navy lieutenant, Southern Partnership Station 17 (SPS 17) is more than just a chance to exchange information. It is a way of connecting with her heritage, and a way to change the lives of people like her. Lt. Juliana Gutierrez, a woman’s health nurse assigned to Naval Hospital Pensacola in Florida, is one of three translators, out of 85 total service members deployed to......
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Brittney Kinsey | Expeditionary Combat Camera | 09.18.2017
Sailors assigned to the Naval Entomology Center of Excellence (NECE) practiced killer bee and mosquito control and prevention during a visit to the Centro De Atención Mis Años Dorados, a local nursing home, Sept. 18, during Southern Partnership Station 2017 (SPS 17)....
Story by Seaman Kristen Yarber | USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) | 09.16.2017
Expeditionary fast transport vessel USNS Spearhead (T-EPF 1) arrived at the island of St. Martin Sept. 16, 2017, to assist in disaster relief efforts for persons affected by Hurricane Irma, during Southern Partnership Station 17 (SPS 17). Operating as part of Joint Task Force Leeward Islands (JTF-LWI), Spearhead traveled to the Caribbean nation to support the U.S. Agency for International......
Story by Seaman Kristen Yarber | USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) | 08.28.2017
Nestled between a small community and towering green hills in Tocoa, Honduras, sits a school, surrounded by four concrete walls. The only entrance is a rusty gate on one of the wall's corners. Inside, children in school uniforms run to and from classes, laughing and kicking soccer balls under palm trees. The exterior of the school was chipped and scratched, before Seabees assigned to......
Story by Petty Officer 2nd Class Brittney Kinsey | Expeditionary Combat Camera | 08.15.2017
Sailors aboard the expeditionary fast transport USNS Spearhead (T-EPF 1) performed detection and monitoring patrols in the U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) area of responsibility, to assist in the interdiction of illicit drug trafficking, during Southern Partnership Station 2017 (SPS 17)....
Story by Seaman Kristen Yarber | USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) | 08.15.2017
U.S. Navy medical professionals donated vital medical supplies to representatives of the Honduran Department of Health, Aug. 15, as part of Southern Partnership Station 17 (SPS 17). The doctors and hospital corpsmen met with Health Region Number Two officials for the medical material exchange, with the goal of helping hospitals and citizens of the Coln Department city....
