23 March 2021 Greek Prime Minister visits USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in Souda Bay Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and other Greek officials visited the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, flagship of the IKE Carrier Strike Group, during a scheduled port visit in Souda Bay, Greece, March 23, 2021...
15 March 2021 VP-46 Coordinated Operations in the Black Sea BLACK SEA - Operating alongside the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) and USS Porter (DDG-78), two Turkish frigates, the TCG Orucreis (F-245) and TCG Turgutreis (F-241), and two Turkish F-16 fighters, the Patrol Squadron (VP) 46 “Grey Knights,” participated in...
09 March 2021 Nursing the COVID Vaccine Forward The Navy Nurse Corps officer was on duty as on-site leader overseeing several hundred 75-year and older beneficiaries being administered their initial dose of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine from Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (NMRTC) Bremerton...
09 March 2021 VP-46 Coordinated Operations in the Black Sea BLACK SEA - Operating alongside the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Donald Cook (DDG-75) and USS Porter (DDG-78), two Turkish frigates, the TCG Orucreis (F-245) and TCG Turgutreis (F-241), and two Turkish F-16 fighters, the Patrol Squadron (VP) 46 “Grey Knights,” participated in...
09 March 2021 VP-46 Reaffirms Excellence supporting DYNAMIC MANTA 21 The “Grey Knights” of Patrol Squadron (VP) 46 once again reaffirmed their title of “Oldest and the Best” by flying their P-8A Poseidon Boeing aircraft in the annual NATO Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) exercise DYNAMIC MANTA, held in the central Mediterranean Sea...
01 March 2021 Naval Postgraduate School and Xerox Collaborate to Advance Additive Manufacturing Solutions In January 2021, the Department of Defense published its first-ever Additive Manufacturing Strategy to “provide a shared set of guiding principles and a framework for [additive manufacturing] technology development and transition to support modernization and Warfighter readiness” across the...
04 February 2021 Southwest Regional Maintenance Center Completes Emergent Maintenance Availability on USS O’Kane Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC) completed an emergent maintenance availability for USS O’Kane (DDG 77) five days early on Jan. 22. The work repaired failures that prevented the ship from getting underway to conduct a mission essential exercise...
04 February 2021 Public Works Department New Orleans Electrician Awarded Civilian Service Achievement Medal Public Works Department New Orleans Electrician Robert O'Donnell receives the Navy Civilian Service Achievement Medal for his efforts in restoring power to Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans during a six day power outage caused by Hurricane Zeta in October 2020...
28 January 2021 Second U.S. Destroyer Enters Black Sea, Operates Alongside NATO Air Command The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) entered the Black Sea on a routine patrol, Jan. 28, while conducting multidomain operations with a U.S. Navy P-8A aircraft from Patrol Squadron VP-46 and NATO Air Command aircraft E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS)...
15 January 2021 CNO, MCPON Visit Bahrain, Meet With Bahrain Senior Leadership, Sailors Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Gilday and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Russell Smith traveled to Manama, Bahrain, Jan. 13-14 to meet with senior Bahrain leadership as well as forward-deployed Sailors in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations...