Rota Naval

NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain - Sandy Ringer-Mendoza, the Human Resources Operations director assigned to the Office of Civilian Human Resources, center, and Capt. Lavencion Starks, commander of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, right, visit Department of ...

A growing Russian threat to surface ships in the European theater has prompted the U.S. Navy to upgrade its four guided-missile destroyers (DDGs) forward deployed to Rota, Spain. The multi-mission ships have a sophisticated ballistic missile defense ...

Donald Cook's previous deployment included engagements with French, Turkish and Ukrainian naval forces and port visits to Bulgaria, Israel and Romania. In May 2015, Russian Navy Su-24 jets forced the destroyer back into international waters after ...

Cmdr. Miguel Dieguez, commanding officer, Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 133, speaks to Seabees during a turnover ceremony between NMCB 1 and NMCB 133 at Naval Station Rota, Spain, Feb. 16, 2016. The turnover marked the beginning ...

An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter, assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 28, recovers a BQM-74 aerial target drone at Naval Station Rota, Spain, during the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter's (DDG 78) SeaRAM test ...