Vietnam – US kick off the 7th annual naval engagement activity
Thứ Năm, 29/09/2016, 08:22
Da Nang - On September 28, the Vietnam People’s Navy (VPN) and the US Navy kicked off the 7th annual navy engagement activity (NEA) with a welcome ceremony at Tien Sa port in Da Nang.
NEA 2016 will focus on non-combatant events and will include symposia in military medicine and maritime law, subject-matter expert exchanges in navigation, shipboard medicine and damage control and community service events including multiple performances by the U.S. Navy’s 7th Fleet Rock Band “Orient Express”.
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During the sea phase the two navies will practice communications through the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES) and conduct a search and rescue scenario.
U.S. assets participating in 2016 include the guided-missile destroyer USS John S McCain (DDG 56), personnel from CTF 73, DESRON 7, and the U.S. 7th Fleet Band "Orient Express”.
The engagement has evolved from annual port visits to Da Nang by U.S. Navy ships, which began more than a decade ago, to a multi-day bilateral naval engagement ashore and at sea. Each year the engagement becomes more complex, and last year marked the first time a littoral combat ship, USS Fort Worth (LCS 3), participated.
