USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5)

PACIFIC OCEAN -- UH-1Y Venom and AH-1Z Viper aircrew assigned to the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conducted a series of day and night close air support training missions with live ordnance Sept. 25 and Oct. 13, launching from the expeditionary sea base USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) to a range west of Okinawa, Japan.

PHILIPPINE SEA (Oct. 15, 2024) -- United States Marines assigned to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 165 (Reinforced) Det. H-1, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), concluded a 25-day embarkation period onboard the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base, USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) Oct. 15, 2024.

An AH-1Z Viper attached to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 165 (Reinforced), 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, flies past the expeditionary sea base USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5) in the Philippine Sea Sept. 24, 2024.

U.S. Navy Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Joshua Brown, assigned to the expeditionary sea base USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5), and a native of Florida, tows a UH-1Y Venom attached to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 165 (Reinforced), 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, into a hangar bay aboard Miguel Keith in the Philippine Sea Sept. 22, 2024.

Seth Brower, ship’s master of the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary mobile base USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5), leads a tour for Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Rear Adm.

U.S. Marines with the maritime raid force, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, conduct a visit, board, search, and seizure exercise aboard the USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5), in the Philippine Sea, Feb. 7, 2024.

The Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18) conducted a vertical replenishment-at-sea of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Sampson (DDG 102) in the Philippine Sea, May 21.

Balikatan featured field and maritime training events including an amphibious exercise.

The Navy and Marine Corps “blue-green team” composed of Commander Task Force Seventy-Six (CTF 76)/Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 7 is underway with the embarked 31st and 11th Marine Expeditionary Units (MEUs), for training and operations in the Indo-Pacific region.

OKINAWA, Japan – The crew of Lewis B. Puller class expeditionary staging base, USS Miguel Keith (ESB 5), hosted Navy staff from Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 7, and Marines from III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF) and subordinate commands while anchored at Naval Base White Beach, Okinawa.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. — The Navy accepted delivery of its third Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ship, USNS Miguel Keith (T-ESB 5) Nov. 15.