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CTG 73.6 divers complete Micro Spirit removal in Yap as part of Pacific Partnership 2025 By Petty Officer 2nd Class Moises Sandoval Commander, Logistics Group Western Pacific
May 14, 2025 Yap--Commander, Task Group 73.6 (CTG 73.6), U.S. 7th Fleet's deployed salvage force, successfully completed the wreck-in-place and the atsea disposal of an abandoned derelict vessel (ADV) in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), as part of Pacific Partnership 25, May 14, 2025. The U.S. Navy divers from CTG 73.6, collaborated with multiple agencies; to an at-sea designated disposal site approved by the Yap State government for its including the Navy’s Supervisor of Salvage (SUPSALV), SMIT Salvage, final resting place. Singapore Salvage Engineering (SSE), Center Lift, FSM U.S. Embassy office, and Yap local agencies to remove the MV Micro Spirit. The team installed roller bags Micro Spirit was one of six Japanese-built cargo vessels procured by the FSM to relocate the wreck and employed a salvage chisel to conduct wreck-in-place Click here for continuation on page 4 operations into smaller sections for disposal. The sections were then transported
FSM Supreme Court voids Mwarike’s claim to Moch Mayorship; Umwech sworn In By Bill Jaynes The Kaselehlie Press
June 9, 2025 Weno, Chuuk—The FSM Supreme Court has ruled that Istaro Mwarike was not lawfully sworn in as mayor of Moch following the 2024 municipal
election, and on the strength of that decision, his challenger, Patricio Umwech, has now been officially sworn into office.
issued a Declaratory Judgment and accompanying Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law on May 27, 2025, in a case brought by Umwech against Mwarike, the Moch Municipality, Associate Justice Larry Wentworth and the Chuuk State Government. of the FSM Supreme Court, sitting The court found that Umwech's rights in the Trial Division for Chuuk State, to due process and to lawfully pursue
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an election contest were violated, and it invalidated Mwarike’s December 16, 2024 swearing-in. Following that ruling, Associate Justice Kenio Waliby officially Click here for continuation on page 4