A personal story of a Navy service member's experience during LA Fleet Week in San Pedro.
player ready... Navy cryptologic technician 2nd Class Jerame Goodman struts along the flight deck of the USS Essex on Friday, May 27, 2022, the first day of LA Fleet Week in San Pedro .
Visitors tour the Hangar Bay of the USS Essex, an amphibious assault ship, on Friday, May 27, 2022, the first day of this year’s LA Fleet Week in San Pedro. Visitors tour the Hangar Bay of the USS Essex on Friday, May 27, 2022, the first day of LA Fleet Week in San Pedro.
ABH3 Chad Kihoi goes over some of the firefighting equipment used aboard the USS Essex on Friday, May 27, 2022, during a tour on the first day of LA Fleet Week in San Pedro. Logistics Specialist 1st Class Melanie Carney looks out onto the flight deck of the USS Essex on Friday, May 27, 2022, the first day of LA Fleet Week in San Pedro.
Visitors tour the Hangar Bay of the USS Essex on Friday, May 27, 2022, the first day of LA Fleet Week in San Pedro. Navy damage control firefighter Peralta talks about some of the equipment used aboard the USS Essex on Friday, May 27, 2022, the first day of LA Fleet Week which runs through the Memorial Day weekend.
Visitors tour the flight deck of the USS Essex on Friday, May 27, 2022, the first day of LA Fleet Week which runs through the Memorial Day weekend. Visitors tour the flight deck of the USS Essex on Friday, May 27, 2022, the first day of LA Fleet Week which runs through the Memorial Day weekend.
The USS Essex was a perfect backdrop for the press conference held by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, elected officials and leaders from the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard to celebrate the start of Los Angeles Fleet Week 2022, at Cabrillo Boat Ramp in San Pedro on Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Helicopter carrier the USS Essex towers over the Cabrillo Marina after its arrival in San Pedro on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in preparation for LA Fleet Week May 27-30.
The USS Essex is visible from Cabrillo Beach after its arrival in San Pedro on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, in preparation for LA Fleet Week May 27-30. Sailors man the rails as the USS Essex arrives in San Pedro on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, for LA Fleet Week May 27-30.
Sailors man the rails as the USS Essex arrives in San Pedro on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, for LA Fleet Week May 27-30. Sailors man the rails as the USS Essex arrives in San Pedro on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, for LA Fleet Week May 27-30.
Sailors man the rails as the USS Essex arrives in San Pedro on Tuesday, May 24, 2022, for LA Fleet Week May 27-30. Search aircraft land aboard the USS Essex during a massive rescue effort in the Sulu Sea near the Philippines.
An MV-22 Osprey Tiltrotor aircraft assigned to the ÒSea ElksÓ of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 166 lifts off from the flight deck of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex while carrying Marines assigned to 1st Marines, 4th Division during Dawn Blitz 2017. Dawn Blitz is a scenario-driven exercise designed to train and integrate Navy and Marine Corps units by providing a robust training environment where forces plan and execute an amphibious assault, engage in live-fire events, and establish expeditionary advanced bases in a land and maritime threat environment to improve naval amphibious core competencies.
U.S. Navy aviation boatswain mate handlers, assigned to the USS Essex , huddle together on the flight deck during Exercise Dawn Blitz, Oct. 23, 2017. Dawn Blitz provides an opportunity for the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps team to evaluate current processes and refine and improve them to be ready for the future fight. The crew on board during the commissioning ceremony for the USCGC Terrell Horne WPC 1131, the newest US Coast Guard cutter in San Pedro on Friday, March 22, 2019. Lt. John W. Beal speaks during the commissioning ceremony for the USCGC Terrell Horne WPC 1131, the newest US Coast Guard cutter in San Pedro on Friday, March 22, 2019.
Lieutenant John W. Beal speaks during the commissioning ceremony for the USCGC Terrell Horne WPC 1131, the newest US Coast Guard cutter in San Pedro on Friday, March 22, 2019. Admiral Karl L Schultz speaks to the crowd gathered for the commissioning ceremony for the USCGC Terrell Horne WPC 1131, the newest US Coast Guard cutter in San Pedro on Friday, March 22, 2019.
The ships bell is presented during the commissioning ceremony for the USCGC Terrell Horne WPC 1131, the newest US Coast Guard cutter in San Pedro on Friday, March 22, 2019. The crew on board during the commissioning ceremony for the USCGC Terrell Horne WPC 1131, the newest US Coast Guard cutter in San Pedro on Friday, March 22, 2019.
The crew on board signifies the ship is manned and brought to life, during the commissioning ceremony for the USCGC Terrell Horne WPC 1131, the newest US Coast Guard cutter in San Pedro on Friday, March 22, 2019. The audience bows their head in prayer during the commissioning ceremony for the USCGC Terrell Horne WPC 1131, the newest US Coast Guard cutter in San Pedro on Friday, March 22, 2019.
The American Flag is hoisted during the commissioning ceremony for the USCGC Terrell Horne WPC 1131, the newest US Coast Guard cutter in San Pedro on Friday, March 22, 2019. Navy cryptologic technician 2nd Class Jerame Goodman struts along the flight deck of the USS Essex on Friday, May 27, 2022, the first day of LA Fleet Week in San Pedro. Headlining this year’s L.A.
Fleet Week will be the return of the U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Essex, a Wasp-class landing helicopter dock that was a star attraction when it visited the 2022 military event in San Pedro. Joining Fleet Week’s popular ship lineup with the Essex will be two U.S. Coast Guard ships: Coast Guard Cutter Halibut, an 87-foot Marine Protector-class coastal patrol boat stationed in Marina del Rey, and the USCGC Terrell Horne, a Fast Response Cutter based in Long Beach.
All of the ships will be open for free public tours throughout the 10th annual L.A. Fleet Week, which will take place from Friday through Monday, with visitors also having the chance to meet and talk with the Navy sailors, Marines and Coast Guard members who serve on board. The main public events will take place over four days through Memorial Day. The main expo grounds, which are centered around the Battleship Iowa, 250 S. Harbor Blvd.
, will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday through Monday. The Essex will pull up on Tuesday at Berth 46, 3011 Miner St., in San Pedro’s Outer Harbor — accessible only by shuttle — while the two Coast Guard vessels will be berthed in the Main Channel adjacent to the main expo grounds next to the Battleship Iowa. It wasn’t known as of Monday afternoon when the other ships will arrive.
Tours on the Essex will require guests to join the digital queue. Those who join the queue will receive an assigned time to get in line for the shuttle bus. For instructions, and information about all the vessels, go to theThe Coast Guard ships will be berthed at the Downtown Harbor, 504 S. Harbor Blvd. , near the Los Angeles Maritime Museum and the Los Angeles Fire Boat Station.
The Coast Guard cutters will be a short walk from the L.A. Fleet Week grounds and visitors will not need to join the digital queue to tour those vessels. All adults must present valid government-issued identification to take Navy ship tours. Noncitizens must show valid passports and will be subject to a brief additional screening before boarding the vessels.
Photocopies of IDs will not be accepted.training for a possible assignment in the Middle East, where a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has been ongoing amid the Iran war, according to the Navy. The amphibious assault ship was built at what is now Huntington Ingalls Industries in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The Essex launched on Feb. 23, 1991, and was commissioned on Oct. 17, 1992.
It is the fifth ship named for Essex County, Massachusetts, and served as the command ship for Expeditionary Strike Group Seven. Assignments took the ship to the Persian Gulf in the early 2000s, among many other locations throughout the world. The Essex has also served in global relief missions.
Wasp class landing helicopter dock amphibious assault ships provide the Marine Corps with the means to conduct ship-to-shore movement by helicopter and by landing craft, according to a Fleet Week news release. The ships can accommodate the landing craft utility and landing craft air cushion, can operate all helicopters and tilt-rotor aircraft flown by the Marine Corps, and can operate and support AV-8B and F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing aircraft.
They have extensive storage capacity and have proven useful in combat operations, major humanitarian assistance and disaster relief missions. Eight Wasp-class ships were built, seven of which are active. The USS Bonhomme Richard LHD- 6 was extensively damaged by fire on July 12, 2020, while being upgraded in San Diego. The ship was decommissioned and sold for scrap.
The vessel will have about 1,000 sailors and Marines who will be among the many uniformed sea service members participating in Fleet Week and other associated events around the port’s downtown and harbor areas throughout the week. Coast Guard Cutter Halibut, meanwhile, is a patrol boat that was commissioned in 2002 and will be on display in the downtown harbor area between the L.A. Fire Station 112 and the L.A. Maritime Museum.
The fast-response cutter Terrell Horne is based in San Pedro and is the third of four Coast Guard fast-response cutters that will eventually be stationed in the Port of Los Angeles, and its story is connected to the Halibut’s. The Terrell Horne was named for Chief Petty Officer Terrell Horne III, who served as executive petty officer of Coast Guard Cutter Halibut.
Hesaving a crew member in harm’s way after a man identified as a drug smuggler used his fishing boat to purposely ram the Halibut as he was trying to escape capture. In 2012, Horne was one of four Coast Guard officers on board the Halibut off the coast of Santa Cruz Island with the mission to intercept a Mexican panga, an open-hull fishing boat, suspected of drug smuggling.
Horne was 34, a married father of two sons, and a Redondo Beach resident when he was killed in the confrontation. Horne had placed himself in harm’s way trying to push his fellow crew member away from the oncoming collision. Both crew members went overboard, with Horne sustaining a fatal injury.
Fast-response cutters are replacing the 1980s-era Island-class 110-foot patrol boats and are designed for various missions, including drug and migrant interdictions; port, waterway and coastal security; fishery patrols; search and rescue; and national defense. The cutters feature advanced command, control, communication, computer, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance equipment. They can reach a maximum speed of more than 28 knots and have an endurance of at least five days.
• After arriving in San Pedro, make sure location services are enabled on your mobile phone. • Monitor your phone for instructions and updates. You will be notified when it is your time to enter the shuttle line to tour the Essex. • No strollers permitted on the ships.
•Visitors must be able to walk unassisted without the aid of supporting devices for access to the vessels. • No public restrooms are available aboard the ships but will be available on the dock. • No pets allowed.
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