CLEVELAND -- Navy Week is coming to Cleveland.
The city has been selected as one of 14 U.S. sites to host a Navy Week in 2018. Cleveland Navy Week is scheduled for Aug. 27 through Sept. 2, meaning it will coincide with the Cleveland National Air show.
Navy Week is a program designed to educate the city's residents about the Navy, its people and significance to our nation.
According to a news release, the Navy plans to incorporate these elements during Cleveland Navy Week:
- Senior Navy Leadership
- Sailors assigned to the state’s namesake submarine, USS Ohio
- Navy Divers and Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams
- Navy Band performances
- Navy Oceanography/Meteorology scientists and displays
- Sailors from USS Constitution, the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat
- Navy Medicine personnel
- Navy History and Heritage Command historians and displays
- U.S. Navy Blue Angels
- The Navy’s new virtual reality simulator