24 January 2018 Navy Civilian Volunteers for FEMA, Learns Life Lessons In the middle of nowhere, between Bradford and Union counties just west of Jacksonville, Florida, down a long, long washed-out dirt road, a recently-widowed elderly lady sat outside her log cabin, looking at her flooded vehicles...
24 January 2018 Abandon Self, Embrace Team: SPECWAR Unveils "Organic" Art Since the 1970s there has been one common place where all young aspiring frogmen come to test their mettle: The Grinder. This small patch of blacktop asphalt, 9,568 square feet and painted with 165 pairs of white duck-feet flippers is where dreams begin - and end...
24 January 2018 USNS Hershel Williams Completes Integrated Trials USNS Hershel 'Woody' Williams (T-ESB 4), successfully completed the first Integrated Trials for an Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) ship Jan. 19, sailing from and returning to General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. (NASSCO) shipyard in San Diego...
24 January 2018 NAVSTA Rota Begins Major Shoreline Preservation Project Naval Station Rota held a ceremonial groundbreaking event Jan. 19, 2018, to mark the beginning of construction efforts to stabilize erosion on the installation's shoreline in what is the largest land reclamation project undertaken by the Naval Construction Force since the 1970s...
24 January 2018 America Amphibious Ready Group Arrives in Hawaii The Sailors and Marines of the America Amphibious Ready Group (ARG)/15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Jan. 22 and 23, for the final port call of the ARG/MEU's deployment to the Indo-Asia-Pacific, Horn of Africa, Mediterranean, and Middle East...
24 January 2018 TSCHR Kicks Off 2018 with 2,000 New Students Training Support Center Hampton Roads (TSCHR) Student Management Office (SMO) welcomed about 2,000 students to Hampton Roads in a massive check-in following the holidays and snow closures, Jan. 16...
23 January 2018 Navy's 2018 VITA Program is Open for Business The Navy's annual Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) program has officially launched. In anticipation of the kick-off of tax season Jan. 29, VITA tax centers fleet wide are opening their doors...
23 January 2018 USSTRATCOM Tours Strategic Deterrent Force at Bangor U.S. Air Force Gen. John Hyten, commander of U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM), and his wife Laura, visited the Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor (NBK) Submarine Force Jan. 17-18 to see firsthand one leg of the United States' nuclear triad...
23 January 2018 Life-Saving Effort by Navy Nurse Recognized by Washington State Ferry A Navy midwife routinely brings a new life into the world. They also on occasion save a life already here...
23 January 2018 Mobile Implementation Team Visits NNSY, Innovative Ideas Shared Between Shipyards A new team of innovation pioneers is paving the way to process improvement at the Navy's four public shipyards...