Story by Seaman Kristen Yarber | USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) | 08.08.2017
Navy doctors and hospital corpsmen held a Combat Lifesaver (CLS) training course for service members deployed as part of Southern Partnership Station 17 (SPS 17), August 8, at Base Naval de Puerto Castilla, a Honduran naval base....
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Jeremy Starr | Navy Public Affairs Support Element East - (Active) | 08.07.2017
SILIN, Honduras (August 1, 2017) Sailors assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion One (NMCB 1) and medical professionals from the Navy Entomology Center of Excellence participated in a community relations project (COMREL) at the República de Colombia Elementary School in Silin, Honduras, August 1....
Story by Seaman Kristen Yarber | USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) | 07.25.2017
Sailors of Southern Partnership Station-Expeditionary Fast Transport 17 (SPS-EPF 17) visited Dr. Salvador Paredes Hospital July 25 in Trujillo, Honduras, to provide valuable medical treatment information to staff members. Seventeen Honduran doctors and nurses crowded into a conference room with Navy medical officers for four hours to absorb the potentially life-saving techniques and......
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Jeremy Starr | Navy Public Affairs Support Element East - (Active) | 07.24.2017
U.S. service members and Honduran civilian and military officials commemorated the start of Southern Partnership Station-Expeditionary Fast Transport 2017 (SPS-EPF 17) events July 24, at the Honduran naval base in Puerto Castilla....
Story by Petty Officer 1st Class Jeremy Starr | Navy Public Affairs Support Element East - (Active) | 07.18.2017
Military and civil service mariner members of Southern Partnership Station-Expeditionary Fast Transport 2017 (SPS-EPF 17) successfully completed the first-ever adaptive force package (AFP) embarkation and deployment from Gulfport, July 18....
Story by Lt. Rick Moore | Navy Public Affairs Support Element East - (Active) | 07.14.2017
Sailors assigned to USNS Spearhead (T-EPF 1) hosted Rear Adm. Christopher Tomney, director of Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF South), July 10 during the ship’s visit to Naval Air Station Key West. The U.S. Coast Guard admiral, in charge of the Key West-based task force dedicated to countering illicit trafficking, toured the Spearhead and addressed the ship’s military......
Story by Lt. Rick Moore | Navy Public Affairs Support Element East - (Active) | 07.05.2017
USNS Spearhead (T-EPF 1) arrived at Naval Air Station Key West, July 3, for the first scheduled port call of Southern Partnership Station-Expeditionary Fast Transport 2017 (SPS-EPF 17). The Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport and its embarked group of Sailors and civilian mariners are scheduled to travel to Central and South America for maritime security training and partner......
