{"id":865599,"date":"2026-08-21T00:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/865599\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T00:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T00:48:09","slug":"uss-wichita-visits-st-johns-harbour-before-departing-for-joint-exercise-in-arctic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/865599\/","title":{"rendered":"USS Wichita Visits St. John\u2019s Harbour Before Departing for Joint Exercise in Arctic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Sun-day-st.-johns-harbour.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"USS Wichita Visits St. John's Harbour Before Departing for Joint Exercise in Arctic\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Some international visitors paid a recent a stop in St. John\u2019s Harbour. <\/p>\n<p>The USS Wichita \u2013 involved in a multinational operation led by the Canadian Armed Forces known as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.canada.ca\/en\/department-national-defence\/news\/2026\/08\/canadian-armed-forces-launch-operation-nanooktuugaalik-in-canadas-arctic.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NANOOK-TUUGAALIK 2026<\/a> \u2013 slipped into St. John\u2019s Harbour yesterday to pick up provisions before heading back out to sea.  <\/p>\n<p>The operation, which runs from August through October, is focused on maintaining a maritime presence in the Arctic. <\/p>\n<p>HMCS Robert Hampton is being joined by vessels from the Canadian Coast Guard,  other Canadian government agencies and naval forces from the U.S., France and Denmark for naval activities in the Arctic archipelago.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Some international visitors paid a recent a stop in St. John\u2019s Harbour. The USS Wichita \u2013 involved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":865600,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,269876,185074,269873,66,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-865599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-science","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=865599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=865599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=865599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=865599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}