LA is celebrating Memorial Day by hosting its annual multi-day Fleet Week celebration honoring the country’s Sea Services at the Port of LA Waterfront and around the city.
Both the USS Essex and the USS Portland will be open for attendees to tour. The USS Essex was first commissioned back in 1992 and has had more than 30 deployments, including the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean and Arabian Gulf. The USS Portland was first commissioned in 2018 and was built to operate with up to date technology.
It can carry over 800 service members and is equipped with “fiber-optic shipboard-wide area network ,” which allows its parts to be updated and replaced much easier as newer technology becomes available. There will be flyovers from different agencies including the LAPD, U.S. Navy, U.S. Coast Guard, and LAFD.
will conclude with a Memorial Day evening service at the Main Expo Footprint at the Battleship IOWA in San Pedro from 5:00-6:00 p.m.This article tagged under:
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