 The CNO visited the crew of USS George Washington, thanking them for their hard efforts in successfully completing their whole swap with USS Ronald Reagan. The CNO also spoke to them about their upcoming deployment around South America and routed their new home port of Norfolk. USS Simpson is scheduled to decommission by the end of September, leaving USS Constitution as the only active frigate. Simpson will then be towed to Philadelphia, where it will wait to be sold to the State Department's foreign military sales program. And finally, USS Essex and its embarked Marine Aviation Squadron continued strike missions in Iraq in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. The strike missions conducted by a multinational coalition are designed to dismantle and ultimately defeat ISIL. For these stories and more, visit navy.mil.