NORFOLK, Va. - Sailors and Marines assigned to the Iwo Jima (IWO) Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) - 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) Special Operations Capable (SOC) departed for a regularly scheduled deployment, August 14...

The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), the flagship of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 1, returned to its homeport of San Diego on Aug. 14, following a nine-month deployment to the U.S. 3rd, 5th and 7th Fleet areas of operations...

Rear Adm. Dusty "Gigi" Rhodes is a native of Larchmont, New York, and a 1995 graduate of the United States Naval Academy, earning a degree in Ocean Engineering. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and is a 2022 fellow of the...

Vice Admiral George M. Wikoff is a native of New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is a 1990 graduate of the Catholic University of America, was commissioned through the George Washington University NROTC program, and earned a master's from the University of Arkansas.Wikoff served operationally in Fighter...

Rear Admiral Kertreck V. Brooks is a native of Mount Pleasant, Texas and he earned a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics from Saint Louis University in 1995 and a Master of Science in Aeronautics from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in 2004. He entered the Navy through the Baccalaureate Degree...