USS Milius (DDG 69)

INDIAN OCEAN (April 26, 2025) – A Sailor assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) was selected as the Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific (COMNAVSURFPAC) Fleet Sea Sailor of the Year (SOY) for Fiscal Year 2024.

YOKOSUKA, Japan (Jan. 15, 2025) – Cmdr. Steven Terjesen relieved Cmdr. Leif Gunderson as Commanding Officer of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) during a change of command ceremony aboard the ship on January 15th.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69) held a change of command ceremony at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, May 1.

Spending weeks at a time on a piece of ground slightly smaller than a football field is enough to give most people a case of cabin fever, and that may be especially true when that “piece of ground” is actually floating amidst the hollow seascape of the Indo-Pacific.

Military personnel from the Philippines, United States, Australia, France, Japan, and the United Kingdom kicked off exercise Sama Sama-Lumbas in Cebu, Philippines, Oct. 11, 2022.

Capt. Chase Sargeant, from Lakeland, Fla., commander, Task Force 71, left, awards Cmdr. Rob Niemeyer, from St. Louis, outgoing commanding officer of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Milius (DDG 69), the Meritorious Service Medal during a change of command ceremony on the flight deck aboard Milius.

YOKOSUKA, Japan (July 17, 2020) - Cmdr. Rob Niemeyer relieved Cmdr. Jon Hopkins as Commanding

SAN DIEGO — Vice Adm. Richard Brown, Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CNSP), announced the winner of the 2018 CNSP Surface Warfare Officer of the Year (SWOY), May 22.