If the federal government shuts down at midnight, San Francisco’s Fleet Week celebration will go on, but it could lose some of its premier guests: the Blue Angels, as well as visiting Navy and Marine Corps officers.

A shutdown beginning Oct. 1 is becoming increasingly likely, with little hope for a deal on funding negotiations and expiring health care subsidies. If it happens — and continues into the weekend — military participation in the annual event would be paused, said the U.S. Navy, which was supposed to celebrate its 250th anniversary at Fleet Week.

If a shutdown occurs but is quickly resolved, the Navy said its service members might still make the event, but otherwise, officers, aircraft and ships will not be allowed to participate in Fleet Week or make any other public appea

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