Preparations are underway for Maryland’s Fleet Week and Flyover Baltimore

BALTIMORE — We’re nearly every week away from Maryland’s Fleet Week and Flyover Baltimore.

This occasion showcases and celebrates all of the wealthy maritime traditions of the Chesapeake Bay. Be sure to maintain a watch out for the ocean of white uniforms of these in our U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard.

“We’re extraordinarily excited to be in Baltimore,” mentioned CDR. Alex McMahon.

“This is without doubt one of the enjoyable issues we get to do within the Navy, have the ability to journey and sit down with civilians and inform them our experiences and allow them to know what the Navy’s all about,” Sr. Chief Erice Rainer mentioned.

The group symbolizes excellence and self-discipline within the U.S. Navy.

The U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard was established in 1930 and is the official ceremonial unit of the Navy. They participate in a few of our nation’s most prestigious ceremonies together with Presidential inaugurations and arrival ceremonies for international officers.  

Moreover, the guard serves because the funeral escort and conducts all providers for Navy personnel buried in Arlington Nationwide Cemetery.

“It is actually honorable,” Airman Abraham Lidnsey, a U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard member, mentioned.

“We’re proud to signify the president, the secretary of the Navy, and the chief of naval operations in all honors and ceremonies as part of the Navy,” McMahon mentioned.

The Navy Ceremonial guard is made up of 200 members from 4 platoons: drill group, shade guard, casket bearers and firing occasion.

“The extent of accountability and maturity they carry… it is wonderful to see these younger women and men carry out the way in which they do,” Rainer mentioned.

You can see a few of them up shut in individual alongside the Inside Harbor at Maryland’s Fleet week and Flyover Baltimore occasion.

“I am unable to wait to indicate up and present out and present that the Navy, we’re nonetheless the strongest,” Airman Charles Echols, a U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard drill group member, mentioned.

They will be demonstrating their exact and calculated exhibition drill performances.

However the job is just not for everybody. It takes a particular character to carry the place.

“The method is actual strenuous. It is numerous perseverance… primarily simply psychological self-discipline,” Echols mentioned.

“They put in hours earlier than work, after work nights, and weekends to develop the experience you will see,” McMahon mentioned.

Members say it is an unforgettable two-year expertise they’re going to cherish for all times.

“It is a once-in-a-lifetime alternative so give all of it you bought,” Lindsey mentioned.