14 October 2016 CIWT Celebrates Navy Birthday Sailors assigned to Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) and Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Corry Station reflected on the history of their service during an observance of the Navy's 241st birthday, held in the Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station chapel, Oct. 13...
13 October 2016 Navy Medicine Celebrates Navy's 241st Birthday U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) hosted a cake-cutting ceremony honoring the Navy's 241st birthday at Defense Health Headquarters, Oct. 13...
13 October 2016 Barnacle Busting: ONR-Sponsored Research Targets Ship Biofouling Individually, tiny barnacles pose little threat to hulking U.S. Navy ships. But when clustered in thick clumps on a vessel's hull -- a natural occurrence called biofouling -- these sticky crustaceans can slow the ship and increase its fuel consumption by 40 percent...
13 October 2016 NECC's Fuel Reporting Tool Indicates 78 Percent Reduction in Fuel Usage Since 2008 As part of Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC)/NECC Pacific's 15-year energy plan, expeditionary forces have continued to monitor their fuel usage since 2008 as part of overall Energy Conservation Measures and have seen a 78 percent reduction in overall usage...
13 October 2016 If These Walls Could Talk: A lesson not just on U.S. Navy history, but American history.I have always prided myself in my New England roots, spending countless trips during my childhood to sites of the American Revolution, from walking the 2 1/2 mile Freedom Trail in Boston to gazing from the wooden decks of USS Constitution...
13 October 2016 Truman, Norfolk Naval Shipyard Fire Department Conduct Integrated Fire Drill At sea, on the pier, and in the shipyards, Sailors provide first response emergency services to maintain readiness...
13 October 2016 Houston to Welcome America's Navy The U.S. Navy has charted its course and is scheduled to arrive in Houston for Navy Week, Oct. 17-23...
13 October 2016 USS Ross Pulls Into Larnaca, Cyprus Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) pulled into Larnaca, Cyprus for a scheduled port call in the U.S. 6th fleet area of operations...
13 October 2016 USS Cole Conducts Remembrance Ceremony, Honors Fallen of 2000 Attack The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) held a commemoration ceremony onboard Oct. 12, for fallen and injured Sailors of the Oct. 12, 2000 terrorist attack...
13 October 2016 "Diamondbacks" of VFA 102 Hold Change of Command The "Diamondbacks" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 102 held an airborne change of command ceremony while embarked aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), Oct. 11...