The Blue Ridge class command ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) held a special celebration for Asian Pacific American Heritage Month organized by the ship's Multi-Cultural Committee, May 25.
Sailors from Fleet Logistics Support Squadron Five Eight (VR-58) helped local high school students participate in their prom with the creation of the VR-58 Prom Dress Drive.
Throughout our lives we meet people and move on. We normally never see them again, but life works in mysterious ways and brings us back to some of these individuals. Sometimes when we least expect it.
There is arguably nothing more valuable to graduate studies than hands-on applied research. The opportunity to see how classroom concepts and theories are applied to real-world scenarios helps graduate students prepare to be practitioners in their fields.
An assignment as an Individual Augmentee (IA) usually means big changes and requires being able to adapt to challenging environments. One Sailor on board the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) stepped out of his comfort zone and recently returned to tell the tale.
It was a one-alarm fire that quickly became much, much more; the Springs Fire eventually consumed 28,000 acres in Ventura County, Calif., including 300 at Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC).
A Pearl Harbor survivor and USS Pyro Aviation Electrician 1st Class was remembered in an intimate sunrise ceremony in which his ashes were committed into the waters of Pearl Harbor near the Arizona Memorial, May 14.
Adapt and overcome: it's a phrase those in the military hear so often it's almost a cliche. It becomes pertinent when one can relate to a real world example, and Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Thomas Soper's experience is a textbook case.
A 4.7 earthquake shook Naples, Italy, causing damage to the area, including Naval Support Activity Naples, and a crisis team from the Regional Operations Center (ROC)responded, May 10, during exercise Neptune Response 2013.
The Director of Strategic Planning Division for the Office of the Chief of Navy Reserve donated her flight helmet to the National Naval Aviation Museum during a brief ceremony, April 29.
The guided-missile submarine USS Ohio (SSGN 726) said goodbye to Apra Harbor after completing almost three weeks of maintenance by the submarine tender USS Frank Cable (AS 40), May 6.
It's been 15 years since Jordan Riggs was a 10-year-old student at Starbase at McConnell Air Force Base, but once he stepped into the Starbase-Atlantis building at Naval Air Station Meridian, the memories came flooding back.
Navy Cargo Handling Battalion (NCHB) 1 established their own, unit-based, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP) to be able to qualify their Sailors already enrolled in MCMAP.
Sailors from USS Abraham Lincoln volunteered to assist setting up Virginia Peninsula Food Bank's (VPFB) 20th Annual "Tastefully Yours," a food and wine tasting fund-raiser, April 16 and 17.
As USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) undergoes a 48-month refueling complex overhaul (RCOH), a reassigned crew of mechanical-trade Sailors are busy constructing, repairing and refitting components from the ship, at Newport News Shipyard's satellite Light Industrial Facility (LIFAC).