Mobilian among leads for Navy Week

MILLINGTON, Tenn. - The Navy is setting its sails toward Mobile, Ala., to celebrate "Fat Tuesday" with America’s oldest carnival festivities, in conjunction with a port visit from guided-missile destroyer USS Mitscher (DDG 57) during Mobile Navy Week on Feb. 22-28. Navy Weeks focus a variety of outreach assets, equipment, and personnel on a single city for a week-long series of engagements. The Navy's parachute team "Leap Frogs," Navy Band Southeast, sailors from the submarine USS Alabama (SSBN 731), and an Explosive Ordnance Disposal Group will all be participating. Sailors will also be engaging local school students on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) education. Mobile native and Command Master Chief Antonio Perryman of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman is “very excited to come back home and share some of the naval history and heritage” he’s encountered in his 27-year career. Since 2005, the Navy Week program has served as the Navy's signature outreach effort into areas of the country which do not have a significant Navy presence, with 195 Navy Weeks being held in 72 different U.S. cities. (Source: Navy Office of Community Outreach 02/15/17)