Get ready to see sailors around northern Utah.
Salt Lake City is one of the hosts of this year's Navy Week, where the U.S. Navy spends a week in a particular city to meet locals and show its skills. The Navy will provide demonstrations at the Utah State Fair.
On Friday, the Navy's parachute team, the Leap Frogs, will land on the field at Rice Eccles Stadium and deliver the game ball for the football game between Utah State and the University of Utah.
Sailors from the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned warship afloat, will speak at several elementary schools and give a presentation 2 p.m. Saturday at the Salt Lake City Library, 210 E. 400 South.
Nearby cities will see the sailors, too. The Navy Band will perform Monday at the Park City Miners Day Parade and the Brigham City Peaches Day Parade on Saturday.
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Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune The "GSL" pennant is retired to make way for the "Utah" pennant during the recommissioning ceremony in the Utah state capitol rotunda. The Great Salt Lake Division of the Naval Sea Cadet Corps was recommissioned as the NSCC Battleship Utah (BB-31), allowing a closer tie to the Navy and the State of Utah and to honor the USS Utah as well as her crew members who served and went down with her, Saturday December 7, 2013.
Scott Sommerdorf | The Salt Lake Tribune Cadets stand with the pennant that represents their newly commissioned group name. The Great Salt Lake Division of the Naval Sea Cadet Corps was recommissioned as the NSCC Battleship Utah (BB-31), allowing a closer tie to the Navy and the State of Utah and to honor the USS Utah as well as her crew members who served and went down with her, Saturday December 7, 2013.
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