On Aug. 7, Navy Morale, Welfare and Recreation Naples opened an outdoor training center, or “fit box,” at the base’s ...

The ship’s home port is in Gaeta, Italy, near the Naples headquarters of the 6th Fleet, which focuses on naval activity in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa.

U.S. sailors and civilian mariners assigned to the Gaeta, Italy-based USS Mount Whitney are grappling with the deaths of two of their own, discovered within a few days of each other this month.