Sailors will also participate in 11 different Memorial Day parades and serve as honored guests at several Major League baseball games.
The race will begin in September and sailors will cover 40, 000 miles and six continents before returning to the capital in July 2014.
An Iranian news agency reports that 15 detained British sailors and marines will leave Iran by plane Thursday morning.
More than 3, 500 sailors and Marines will flood the streets of the city for athletic competitions, receptions, concerts and free public tours of the ships.
Nearly 20, 000 other sailors and spectators will float by in the other boats, including a few of the ships that rescued British troops in World War II's Battle of Dunkirk.
But with most ships operating with less than two dozen people, a handful of which being English speaking officers trained in maritime security procedures, how will sailors find the time to communicate with naval assets?
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The bewigged officers and ragged sailors add a theatrical element and will help bring the voyage more alive to younger viewers.
But both of these zones have been contested by sailors who fear that new rules will prevent them anchoring on sensitive sites.
Outside a few combat zones like Afghanistan, the ability of U.S. soldiers, sailors and airmen to cope with unexpected challenges will quickly whither.
If it does, soldiers, sailors and airmen in remote or isolated locations will, for the first time in military history, have access to secure, internet-like communications that can carry voice, data, and video on a self-healing net.
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Scientists are enlisting sailors and fishermen to help with what they hope will be the world's biggest study of plankton in the oceans.
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The construction will destroy an historic site where 19th century sailors anchored en route to the mainland trading port of Guangzhou.
Add hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, Marines, airmen and Coast Guard personnel who will be forced out of uniform and may wind up out of work and, in some cases, homeless, and you have a serious additional burden on our economy and society.
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The Marine Corps says it will greatly improve the survivability of both Marines going ashore and sailors on the ships from which it is launched.
But much of this will be done through smart use of technology and not classical presence of sailors.
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In addition, she will join Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus on the USS Ramage to visit with Sailors and offer thanks for their service to our Nation.
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