03 June 2018 Team Navy Competes in 2018 Warrior Games Team Navy kicked off its participation in the annual Department of Defense (DoD) Warrior Games June 1 during the opening ceremony at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, marking a return to the inaugural home of the competition...
03 June 2018 BALTOPS 2018 Daily Update: June 3 Exercise Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2018 continued with the final day of the pre-sail planning conference with the 22 participating nations making final preparations before moving to the next phase of the operation...
03 June 2018 BALTOPS 2018 Daily Update: June 2 Exercise Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) 2018 kicked off with participating nations attending a pre-sail conference at Hotel Amberton Klaipeda on June 1...
01 June 2018 Wear Test of Two-Piece Flame Resistant Variant Begins Based on a strong demand signal from the fleet, U.S. Fleet Forces (USFF) Command, on May 14, began fitting Sailors for a wear test to prototype a two-piece flame resistant organizational clothing variant...
01 June 2018 Code 930 Gets S.M.A.R.T. with Quarterly Goals On New Year's Eve, people around the world set resolutions for the year ahead. Many of those resolutions would be broken in a matter of weeks. But that wasn't true for employees in the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) Mechanical Group (Code 930)...
01 June 2018 Always Ready A hurricane is a tropical cyclone in the North Atlantic Ocean, the Northeast Pacific Ocean, east of the dateline, or the South Pacific Ocean east of 160E.To fully prepare for an emergency, create one or more emergency kits, well in advance of a crisis, that include enough supplies for at least three...
01 June 2018 Combating the Curse of Complacency: How Integrity, Accountability Save Lives When he speaks about the events of April 10, 1963, Retired Navy Capt. Joe Yurso paints a vivid picture of what it was like after attack submarine USS Thresher (SSN 593) sank with 129 Sailors and civilians aboard...
01 June 2018 NNSY Temporary Services Shows Lasting Commitment to Safety Shop 89 of Norfolk Naval Shipyard's Temporary Services Group, Code 990, earned the monthly Safety Flag three times in a row, from January through March 2018. The only other shop to achieve this feat at NNSY is the Boilermaker Shop (Shop 41) back in 2015...
01 June 2018 Code 990 Training Coordinator Begins '95 or Better' Program to Reward Students' Efforts At Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY), one of the resounding phrases heard around the workforce is to strive for excellence...
01 June 2018 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Brings Innovative Breaker Tools to Norfolk Naval Shipyard The Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) 04X3 Tactical Innovation Implementation Lab (TIIL) mobile implementation team (MIT) continued its pursuit for innovation May 14-18 across the four public shipyards...