14 March 2016 New Designator Name Honors Heritage and Looks to Future Those information warfare community naval officers principally responsible for executing signals intelligence, cyberspace operations, and electronic warfare operations will be renamed cryptologic warfare officers to reflect their evolving mission...
11 March 2016 Thousands of Sailors Now Board-Eligible for Chief From the pool of approximately 33,000 first class petty officers who took the chief's test, 19,170 Sailors are now selection-board eligible for the fiscal year 2017 active duty and full time support Chief Petty Officer Selection Boards, officials announced March 11...
10 March 2016 NRL Space-Based Solar Power Concept Wins Defense Secretary's Innovative Challenge A team of scientists led by Paul Jaffe, spacecraft engineer at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), have been named winners of the first-ever Department of Defense (DoD) Diplomacy, Development, and Defense (D3) Innovation Summit Pitch Challenge,...
10 March 2016 PAX Building Energy Monitors Promote Positive Energy Use From lighting and heating office spaces to necessary equipment testing, energy use is a part of regular operations at any installation. Helping to make sure energy is being used efficiently is a dedicated group of personnel tasked as building energy monitors, or BEMs...
10 March 2016 Seabees Learning Valuable Airfield Damage Repair Skills to Prepare for the Future To prepare for the fight of the future Seabees are training today on perfecting their skillsets and know-how to compete in all phases of Airfield Damage Repair(ADR) in Camp Shelby, Mississippi during their scheduled field training exercise...
10 March 2016 The Road to Redemption She glared at her phone, knowing any minute that her alarm would go off and she would have to get out of bed. It didn't matter that she was up all night, racking her brain with "what if's" or "I should have's."...
10 March 2016 Safe & Sound It's a sunny afternoon and on board the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3), a sunny day is a good day for amphibious operations...
10 March 2016 Air Support's Ground Support An integral part for a UH-1Y Huey needs to be replaced; instead it sits in an unopened box. The work order was never processed and the Huey is grounded...
09 March 2016 USS Halsey Sailor is Navy's First Female Wrestler Women have been making naval history since the early 1900s when Congress established the Navy Nurse Corps and since 2004, when the armed forces first hosted women's Freestyle wrestling in the annual Armed Forces Championship (AFC)...
09 March 2016 US Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Conduct Warfare Training during Multi Sail 2016 Commander, Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, Commander, Task Force (CTF) 72 and the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) are participating in the annual bilateral training exercise Multi Sail 2016, March 6-11...