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Cleveland 1 of 14 cities selected for 2018 Navy Week

Cleveland Navy Week is scheduled for Aug. 27 through Sept. 2.
U.S. Navy Blue Angels

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

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