30 October 2017 America's Navy Attends 2017 Society of Women Engineers Conference With the overall mission of recruiting the best men and women, Sailors and support personnel assigned to Navy Recruiting Command, Navy Recruiting District San Antonio, and the Navy Partnership Team attended the Society of Women Engineers Conference at the Austin Convention Center, Oct. 26-28...
30 October 2017 Flu Vaccine Helps Protect Family Members and You With the flu season upon us, Navy Medicine is stressing the importance of medical readiness for Sailors, Marines and their family members this fall...
30 October 2017 Behind the Scenes of Comfort's Microbiology Lab In the microbiology laboratory, located inside the laboratory division aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), a lone laboratory technician that specializes in biomedical health sits in her scrubs and personal protective equipment...
30 October 2017 Naturalized Chief Moved to Serve There was only one problem: When Lapid first started imagining herself in a uniform, she didn't live in the United States, but in the Philippines. She went to school in Angeles City in Pampanga, located about 10 minutes away from the former Clark Air Base. Tragedy struck in early 1991 when Mount...
30 October 2017 Nightcrawlers As the sun begins to set, a voice comes over the 1 Main Circuit (1MC) calling for darken ship. White lights change to an eerie red as day crew makes their way to their racks. Night crew emerges like spiders crawling out of a crack transiting through passageways to get to their work stations...
30 October 2017 USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) Conducts Change of Command The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) held a change of command ceremony at the fleet landing on Naval Station Rota, Spain, Oct. 27...
30 October 2017 Riding the Wake The year was 1941, and word of the Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor was still making its way across the nation. Across the international dateline, another attack by the Japanese was unfolding on the atoll commonly referred to as Wake Island...
30 October 2017 USS Ashland Arrives in Okinawa After Rescuing Distressed Mariners, Transitions to Blue Chromite Preps The amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD 48) arrived in Okinawa Oct. 30, as part of a scheduled port visit to prepare for the joint U.S. exercise Blue Chromite...
30 October 2017 NAVFAC Far East to Renovate CFAY Bachelor Enlisted Quarters Naval Facilities Engineering Command Far East awarded a $6.5 million contract for major renovations to Bachelor Enlisted Quarters on board Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, Oct. 27...
30 October 2017 HST Strike Group Conducts Group Sail The Harry S. Truman Strike Group (HSTSG) is underway for a three-week group sail off the coast of the Eastern United States, familiarizing themselves with one another in critical areas for future operations...