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Building a Climate-Ready Force

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Climate Readiness is Mission Readiness

“Climate change is one of the most destabilizing forces of our time, exacerbating other national security concerns and posing serious readiness challenges. Our naval forces, the United States Navy and Marine Corps, are in the crosshairs of the climate crisis: the threat increases instability and demands on our forces while simultaneously impacting our capacity to respond to those demands… For the DON, bold climate action is a mission imperative. In this decisive decade, we have no other alternative.”

Secretary Carlos Del Toro, Secretary of the Navy

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  • Climate readiness is part of being a modern, lethal, agile force.
    USS Wayne E. Meyer transits through a lightning storm in the South China Sea.

  • As the environments U.S. Sailors and Marines operate in are changing, we must be prepared to operate and succeed in them.
    Marines scope out terrain during an amphibious assault exercise at Marine Corps Base Hawaii.

  • A climate-ready force will build resilience in areas that are most susceptible.
    Navy Petty Officer guides a Navy dump operator during Hurricane Ida on Sept. 16, 2021, in Grand Isle, LA.

  • A climate-ready force will prepare for deteriorating conditions when making investments.
    SH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter flies during degraded visual environment training near Udari Army Airfield in Kuwait

  • A climate-ready force will be trained and equipped to operate in changing, more challenging contested environments.
    The national ensign flies above the Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Illinois (SSN 786) during Ice Exercise in the Arctic.

  • A climate-ready force will strengthen existing partnerships and build new ones.
    Navy Entomologists, LTJG Jacob Underwood and LTJG Sean McKay from NECE conducting vector surveillance training with Ghanaian Armed Forces and Ministry of Health personnel in Accra, Ghana

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