21 May 2022 USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS 21) Commissions The U.S. Navy commissioned its newest littoral combat ship USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS 21) in Duluth, Minnesota, May 21, 2022...
29 April 2022 Continuing a Naval Tradition One Poem At a Time WASHINGTON NAVY YARD - “A starry night in 7th fleet/ Another year we sail to meet/ 3,000 miles across the mighty Pacific/ Dreaming of home, how could we not miss it?/ Leaving San Diego’s June gloom in our wake/ Deployment ’21 a salty Sailor will make” wrote Ens. Sarah Weinstein, on the first night...
21 April 2022 Navy's Human Resources Community Recognizes Junior Officer of the Year Navy Announces Fiscal Year 2021 HR community Junior Officer of the Year (JOOY)...
23 March 2022 U. S. Navy and Royal Australian Air Force Conduct First Cooperative Air-to-Air Refueling ROYAL AUSTRALIAN AIR FORCE BASE EDINBURGH, Australia – A U.S. Navy P-8A from Patrol Squadron 47 (VP-47) and one KC-30A from Royal Australian Air Force No. 33 Squadron (RAAF 33) conducted the first ever operational Air-To-Air Refueling (AAR) between a U.S. Navy P-8A and a RAAF KC-30A on March 20...
18 March 2022 Military Sealift Command Training Centers; Your Future in the Fleet Begins Here FORT EUSTIS, Va. - All newly hired CIVMARs, both licensed and unlicensed, must successfully complete MSC three-week Basic Training curriculum prior to sailing aboard MSC ships...
14 March 2022 NAMRU San Antonio conducts Quantitative Detection of Pain Study JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON – (March 14, 2022) Dental health and readiness is crucial in the military health system. To increase readiness, researchers assigned to Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) San Antonio have been conducting a study for the Electrodermal Activity Sensing for...
18 February 2022 Navy Dedicates Rescue Swimmer Pool in Honor of Sailor, WWII Hero SAN DIEGO – The Navy announced plans today to dedicate a rescue swimming training pool at Naval Base San Diego to Mess Attendant First Class Charles Jackson French in honor of his heroic actions during the Battle of Guadalcanal in World War II. ...
14 February 2022 The Taming of the (Elephant) Shrew: The Story of Navy Medicine’s “Cairo to Capetown” Expedition of 1948 FALLS CHURCH, Va. - On February 17, 1948, a Navy medical team embarked on a historic journey across the African Continent. Over a period of nine months they travelled in a caravan from Port Said, Egypt to Capetown, South Africa while collecting thousands of rare specimens, providing medical care to...
09 February 2022 Sailor Represents U.S. Navy at NFL Pro Bowl JOINT BASE ANACOSTIA-BOLLING - Seaman Haley Tanner, a native of Gainesville, Florida, represented the Navy as part of the Joint Armed Forces Color Guard during the presentation of the National Colors at the NFL Pro Bowl in Las Vegas Feb. 6...
28 January 2022 Sixteen Sailors Complete Training to Become Ceremonial Guardsmen WASHINGTON – U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard (USNCG) welcomed 16 Sailors that have completed the initial training to become Ceremonial Guardsmen onboard Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling Jan. 28...