14 January 2021 USS Mount Whitney Celebrates 50 Years of Excellence The U.S. Sixth Fleet flag ship, Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20), celebrated its 50th birthday with a small ceremony in Gaeta, Italy, Jan. 14...
14 January 2021 Fleet Manning is Now the Highest Since 2015 - CNP Tells Surface Navy Association Symposium Chief of Naval Personnel has re-dedicated the nearly 20,000 MyNavy HR personnel to the task of making sure the fleet has enough sailors to meet its missions, stating that his first strategic goal in 2021 is to "Build a Navy that Can Fight and Win." ...
11 January 2021 Guam Hosts Partner Nations in Exercise SEA DRAGON 2021 Two P-8 Poseidon aircraft from Patrol Squadron 5 (VP-5), the “Mad Foxes,” joined several partner nations to kick off multinational anti-submarine warfare exercise Sea Dragon 2021, Jan. 12...
11 January 2021 USS William P. Lawrence Returns From U.S. 4th Fleet Deployment Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110) returned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor, Jan. 11, following a deployment to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations...
05 January 2021 U.S. 7th Fleet Sailors Receive COVID Vaccine Forward Deployed Naval Forces from U.S. 7th Fleet began receiving the initial COVID-19 vaccinations Jan. 5 at U.S. Naval Hospital Yokosuka. ...
05 January 2021 Under Secretary Presents Awards to WWII Veteran Seventy-six years after serving in the Pacific, World War II veteran Daniel Crowley was honored during a ceremony in Connecticut Jan. 4...
22 December 2020 USS John S. McCain Conducts Freedom of Navigation Operation in South China Sea On Dec. 22, USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) asserted navigational rights and freedoms in the Spratly Islands, consistent with international law. This freedom of navigation operation (“FONOP”) upheld the rights, freedoms, and lawful uses of the sea recognized in international law by challenging...
18 December 2020 CNO Explores Future Warfare at Naval Postgraduate School In an effort to explore current research related to key naval priorities, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Gilday visited the Naval Postgraduate School, Dec. 17, to assess the university’s latest research and experimentation regarding unmanned systems and space engineering, as well as gain...
17 December 2020 USS John S. McCain Joins French, Japanese Navies for Multinational Exercise Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) joined the French Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) for integrated exercises in the Philippine Sea throughout the week...
11 December 2020 USS Ross Completes 10th Patrol in U.S. Sixth Fleet Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) returned to Naval Station Rota, Spain, following the completion of its 10th Forward-Deployed Naval Forces (FDNF) patrol in U.S. Sixth Fleet, Dec. 11...