The Wayzata Conservancy has partnered with the City of Wayzata to create a memorial honoring the 20th anniversary of the 9/11/2001 attacks on the World Trade Center. 

The memorial will be located among a grove of nine birch trees in the recently completed lakeside plaza park, which is part of the city’s Panoway on Wayzata Bay initiative.

 The initial inspiration for a 9/11 memorial in Wayzata dates back to 2011, around the time of the 10-year anniversary. The City of Wayzata was given several small pieces of the fallen World Trade Center buildings by the Aamoth family of Wayzata, whose 32-year-old son Gordy Aamoth Jr. died in the attacks.

Today, together, we again embrace the most sacred duty defending our nation and working to build a world more defined by peace than conflict.

 I join you as someone who loves the Navy who spent 26 years in uniform and another 17 striving to make sure you had the capabilities you needed to fulfill your mission effectively and safely.  Serving you as your 78th Secretary of the Navy is a high honor.  It also carries grave responsibilities to which I will dedicate all my skill and devotion.   You should also know I have a bias for action. Our Navy and our nation face critical challenges on multiple fronts.

United States Navy League, Minnesota Council, Vice President of Outreach North, Joyce Lacey participated in the Edina Independence Day parade on July 3, 2021.  Pictured is Marcus Benjamin of the Submarine League besideJoyce Lacey’s Car. Edina parade theme was “Coming Together.”  The parade Grand Marshals were Health Care Workers and Local Businesses and featured veterans, marching bands, floats, horses, musicians, clowns, and more.

What are your thoughts on being the commanding officer of a ship named for the Twin Cities?

Cmdr. White: “Honestly, I feel incredibly fortunate and blessed. It’s an honor to serve as the commanding officer of any US Navy warship, but I couldn’t ask for a finer ship than the future USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Much like the Twin cities, LCS ships are manned by two crews. We’ve made it our mantra that both crews will train together, grow together and support each other in every regard to ensure we ultimately achieve operational success. Twin Cities, twin crews.”

Host Jon Olson talks with Bill James, President of the Minnesota Council of the Navy League of the United States. They discuss the role of the Navy League in supporting America’s four sea services—the US Navy, US Marine Corps, US Coast Guard, and the US-flagged Merchant Marine. National Security This Week with Bill James, 2-17-21, (Navy League of the United States) (kymnradio.net)

The Navy has determined a flaw in the Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship’s combining gear, a complicated gearing mechanism that links the engines of the ship, is an engineering defect that shipbuilder Lockheed Martin now has to fix, USNI News has learned.

Over the last year, the Navy has linked propulsion failures in USS Detroit (LCS-7) and USS Little Rock (LCS-9) to a latent engineering defect in the bearings system that links the ship’s Rolls Royce MT30 gas turbines and the ship’s Colt-Pielstick diesel engines, which power the main drive shaft to achieve the ship’s 40-knot top speed.

What an INCREDIBLE way to start 2021!! This award would not be possible without the HARD work and DEDICATION from the BEST CREW on the waterfront, and they wouldn't be able to do their best without the tremendous support from all of THE FAMILIES!!

To the Minnesota Navy League and our sponsor, the honorable Jodi. J Greene, the crew of PCU Minneapolis St. Paul wishes you Happy Holidays!

The littoral combat ship Pre-Commissioning Unit (PCU) Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS 21) successfully completed its Mobility Damage Control Warfare (MOB-D) assessment Nov. 13. 

MOB-D is an assessment of a crew’s ability to respond quickly and efficiently to a variety of training situations where the ship has taken structural or engineering damage.

Brrr!!!!   When it is cold outside, we all reach for our warm jacket or parka to keep us warm.  Minnesota’s Naval Sea Cadets don’t have those warm parkas, so the Minnesota Navy League Council is issuing an urgent all hands-on deck to our Minnesota Council members to help them out. 

The Minnesota Navy League supports four United States Navy Sea Cadet Corps units across the state of Minnesota, Twin Ports Division – Duluth; Polaris Battalion – Cambridge; Twin Cities Squadron – Arden Hills, and Lake Agassiz Division – Grand Forks.