18 May 2020 USS Theodore Roosevelt Conducts Fast Cruise in Guam Sailors aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) are simulating being at sea while moored at Naval Base Guam. During the simulation, or "fast cruise," the crew will simulate normal underway conditions while testing the critical systems required to sustain the ship during its...
17 May 2020 Yard Patrol 686 Craft Completes Service Life Extension Program The Navy recently completed a Service Life Extension Program (SLEP) on Yard Patrol (YP) 686 and returned the modernized craft to the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA), May 14...
17 May 2020 USFF Commander Commissions 52 New Military Officers in Notre Dame Virtual Ceremony Notre Dame's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) class of 2020 may have dreamed of a commissioning ceremony with bells, a band, full-dress uniforms, and their loved ones in attendance, but they probably never imagined the creative way it would play out due to COVID-19 and social distancing...
14 May 2020 USS Donald Cook Applies Lessons for Second Trip to Arctic The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile Aegis destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) recently concluded operations in the Barents Sea as part of a second mission above the Arctic Circle, May 11, 2020...
13 May 2020 USS Maine Celebrates Birthday With Return to Service The gold crew of the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Maine (SSBN 741) officially returned the boat to strategic service, when they recently deployed on their first patrol in more than three years...
12 May 2020 U.S. Navy Maintains Persistent Presence Near West Capella A U.S. Navy ship conducted presence operations near Panamanian flagged drillship, West Capella, May 12...
12 May 2020 U.S. Navy Maintains Persistent Presence Near West Capella A U.S. Navy ship conducted presence operations near Panamanian flagged drillship, West Capella, May 12...
11 May 2020 Pacific Fleet Submarines: Lethal, Agile, Underway The U.S. Pacific Fleet submarine force currently has every one of its forward-deployed submarines conducting contingency response operations at sea in the Western Pacific, in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific region amidst the pandemic caused by the Coronavirus...
08 May 2020 Chesapeake, Virginia Sailor Named NECC Sea Sailor of the Year Navy Diver 1st Class Thomas Gerace, from Chesapeake, Virginia, was recently recognized as the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC) Sea Sailor of the Year...
08 May 2020 Force Aircraft Test Squadron Changes Command Cmdr. Jared D. Goul became the 25th commanding officer of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 20 during a ceremony at NAS Patuxent River on Thursday, taking over from Cmdr. Matthew J. Tharp...