A snapshot of the Navy from December 7, 2011.

1. A Day in the Navy
December 7, 2011
(LINKS ARE TO ASSOCIATED PHOTOS OR ARTICLES)
• On Dec. 7, 324,305 active duty officers, Sailors and midshipmen; 65,117 Selected Reserve
Sailors, with 4,563 mobilized Reserves; and 203,609 civilians are serving in the Department
of the Navy.
• There are 284 active ships in service; 156 (55 percent) ships, including six aircraft carriers
and five large-deck amphibious ships, and 24 (45 percent) submarines are underway away
from homeport.
• There are 6,675 individual augmentees, 3,008 of whom are mobilized Reserve Sailors,
deployed on the ground around the world in support of overseas contingency operations.
• Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus speaks at a ceremony in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii,
commemorating the 70th anniversary of the 1941 attack and of those who lost their lives
during the raid.
• Sailors and Marines of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, comprised of USS
Makin Island (LHD 8), USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) and USS New Orleans (LPD 18), reflect
on each ship's unique tie to the attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago.
• More than 60 Japanese peace delegates from the Japan Religious Committee for World
Federation attend a wreath laying ceremony and prayer at the Pearl Harbor Submarine Park
and Parche Memorial on board Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in honor of the 70th
anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
• Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Rick D. West (SS/SW) visits Seabees assigned to
30th Naval Construction Regiment, Task Force Forager, Kandahar, Afghanistan.
• Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 9 embarks its flagship, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), and
departs along with Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 9 and USS Momsen (DDG 92) for a
routine deployment.
• USS Enterprise (CVN 65) is underway conducting around-the-clock air operations, flight
deck qualifications, and seamanship training evolutions.
• USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Sailors participate in weapons training, flight deck drills and
celebrate December birthdays as the ship conducts maritime security operations in the
Arabian Gulf.
• USS Bunker Hill (CG 52) conducts a burial at sea ceremony as they transit the Pacific Ocean
during a scheduled Western Pacific deployment.

2. • USS Mustin (DDG 89) celebrates 100 years of naval aviation with a ceremony honoring the
ship’s namesake, Capt. Henry Mustin.
• High Speed Vessel (HSV 2) Swift is in La Union, El Salvador, for three weeks as part of
Southern Partnership Station.
• Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) 91 achieves the fastest speed to date by a surface craft
using alternative fuel blends during the Navy’s final alternative fuel demonstration of the
year.
• A Naval Oceanographic Office survey detachment assigned to USNS Mary Sears (T-AGS
65) successfully recovers a sea glider used to collect oceanographic data in support of ocean
modeling and fleet requirements in the Western Pacific.
• A detachment from the U.S. Navy’s Fleet Survey Team conducts a hydrographic survey in
Bridgetown, Barbados. The mission will build cooperative partnerships with regional
maritime services to achieve common international safety and security goals.
• USS Russell (DDG 59), assigned to Combined Maritime Forces’ Combined Task Force
(CTF) 152, participates in Exercise Goal Keeper, an exercise focused on improving visit,
board, search and seizure skills and the exchange of information among regional command
centers.
• USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) Sailors and embarked Marines from the 22nd Marine
Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conduct a flight deck fire and mass casualty drill while in the
Arabian Gulf.
• The crew of USS Frank Cable (AS 40) collects toys for Guam’s second annual Marine Corps
Toys for Tots toy drive.
• Staff members from U.S. Naval Forces Africa, a humanitarian civic action detachment from
Maritime Civil Affairs and Security Training (MCAST) Command, participate in a
noncommissioned officer leadership course with Sailors from Cameroon, Liberia, Nigeria,
Senegal and Uganda in Douala, Cameroon.
• Multiple Seabee detachments from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Five (NMCB 5)
build a Maritime Operations Center (MOC) in Accra, Ghana, to help develop Ghana's
maritime infrastructure and continue humanitarian civic assistance efforts building schools
and wells in Ethiopia and Kenya.
• USS Curtis Wilbur (DDG 54) is in Langkawi, Malaysia, for the Langkawi International
Maritime & Aerospace Exhibition (LIMA) 2011.
• Recruiters help 70 people join America's Global Force for Good.