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Pacific Partnership 2013
Lt. Cmdr. George Lucier, staff judge advocate, Region Legal Service Office Southeast and Alice Huffman, director, Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society Gulfport, rinse the Seabee with fire hoses, while the 2013 Bee Washers scrub with soap and water at the Big Grinder on board Naval Construction Battalion Center Gulfport, June 5. In total, $1,629 was raised for the Bee Wash, and all donations will go toward the 2013 NMCRS Active Duty Fund Drive.
Pacific Partnership 2013
Lt. Rachel Weidemann, left, the deputy mission judge advocate general for Pacific Partnership 2013, reviews a list of life raft assignments during an abandon ship drill aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) in the Pacific Ocean, May 29. Pacific Partnership is an annual deployment of forces designed to strengthen maritime and humanitarian partnerships during disaster relief operations, while providing humanitarian, medical, dental and engineering assistance to nations of the Pacific. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Samantha J. Webb)
Naturalization Ceremony
Capt. Ann Minami, commanding officer of Region Legal Service Northwest, addresses the audience at a naturalization ceremony aboard USS Turner Joy. The ceremony was held in conjunction with Armed Forces Week, during which 14 service members took the U.S. Oath of Allegiance and became U.S. citizens. (Photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Eric J. Harrison)
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The Convention on the Law of the Sea
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), implements the National Security Strategy, provides legal certainty in the world’s largest maneuver space and preserves essential navigation and overflight rights. More than 150 nations are Party to the Convention– but not the United States, the world’s leading maritime nation.
Becoming a Party to the Law of the Sea Convention will help to ensure the Navy’s ability to move forces on, over, and under the world’s oceans, whenever and wherever needed, and is an important asset in the Global War on Terrorism.
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