Blue Angels: 2022 Show Schedule
The Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy’s acclaimed flight demonstration squadron, have released their 2022 air show schedule. In this, their 76th air show season, the Angels are scheduled to perform 63 demonstrations at 32 locations:
March
12: NAF El Centro, CA
19–20: NAS New Orleans, LA
26–27: MacDill AFB, FL
April
2–3: NAS Kingsville, TX
9–10: JB Charleston, SC
23–24: Vidalia, GA
30: Vero Beach, FL
May
1: Vero Beach, FL
7–8: McGuire AFB, NJ
14–15: Ellsworth AFB, SD
25–27: USNA, Annapolis, MD
28–29: Jones Beach, NY
June
4–5: Eau Claire, WI
11–12: Chesterfield, MO
18–19: Millington, TN
July
2–4: Traverse City, MI
9–10: Pensacola Beach, FL
16–17: Ypsilanti, MI
23–24: Milwaukee, WI
30–31: Dayton, OH
August
6–7: Seattle, WA
13–14: MCAS Kaneohe Bay, HI
20–21: McMinnville, OR
September
3–4: Cleveland, OH
10–11: Knoxville, TN
17–18: NAS Oceana, VA
24–25: MCAS Miramar, CA
October
1–2: Minden, NV
8–9: San Francisco, CA
22–23: NAS Jacksonville, FL
29–30: Houston, TX
November
5–6: Peachtree City, GA
11–12: NAS Pensacola, FL
For more information,
visit blueangels.navy.mil.
2022 CNO Naval History Essay Contest Announced
The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), the Naval History and Heritage Command, and the U.S. Naval Institute announce the 2022 CNO Naval History Essay Contest. Eligible participants are invited to submit papers by no later than 31 May.
Entrants should submit essays that apply lessons from throughout naval history to establishing and maintaining maritime superiority in an era of great-power competition. Entrants should consider that today’s era is marked by:
• Determined and increasingly aggressive efforts by China and Russia to coordinate their respective instruments of power (e.g., economic, political, and military)
• Chinese and Russian expansion across the spectrum of military operations and domains
• The rise of China as an economic and maritime power and the importance of the maritime domain as well as the need for the United States to integrate Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard operations and multidomain operational concepts and capabilities
• The increased importance of navies, sea control, and allies and partners in a globalized world
• The proliferation of advanced weaponry and the erosion of key U.S. technological advantages
• Fundamental strategic and technological shifts and advances that promise to change the character and conduct of naval warfare and challenge the Navy’s ability to adapt.
Essays will be accepted from entrants qualified in the Professional Category or the Rising Category. The Professional Category includes: historians, professors, history curators, archivists, and those with history-related doctoral degrees; authors of books on naval history (not including self-published works); and civilians who have published articles in an established historical or naval journal or magazine.
The Rising Category includes those who do not fall within the Professional Category and are either: active duty, reservists, veterans, and federal civilian personnel of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine; or members of foreign militaries who have orders and are serving in an official billet in one of the above services.
Word counts—excluding footnotes, endnotes, or source lists—are 3,500 words maximum for the Professional Category and 3,000 words maximum for the Rising Category. The word count should be included on the title page.
In the Rising Category, an essay may be coauthored, but both authors have to meet the qualifications of the category.
Submissions must not have been previously published, nor be currently under consideration for publication, nor previously submitted to the contest.
Entrants may submit multiple essays, but the judging panel will select only one winning essay per entrant.
Essays should be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word attachment via the following links: Professional Category—www.usni.org/cnonhessaycontestprofessional; Rising Category—www.usni.org/cnonhessaycontestrising. When filling out the electronic form, the short biography should detail the author’s or coauthors’ eligibility for the contest. The essays are judged in the blind, so do not include the author’s name anywhere on the pages of the essay.