17 December 2015 Boxer Amphibious Ready Group Completes CERTEX The Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) successfully completed a two-week Certification Exercise (CERTEX), Dec. 16, off the coast of southern California...
17 December 2015 First Lady Supports Marine Toys for Tots Event at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling The annual Marine Toys for Tots Foundation's sorting event, hosted on Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling (JBAB), was jump-started by a familiar guest, first lady Michelle Obama, Dec. 9...
17 December 2015 Balance, Bonding and Expectations This was my first deployment and I couldn't wait to reunite with my family for that picture perfect moment. I raced off the brow, searching the crowd for my family. Then I heard my son's sweet little voice screaming "MOM!" as he ran up to me.He jumped in my arms and we squeezed each other tight just...
17 December 2015 Mount Whitney Returns to Gaeta The U.S. 6th Fleet command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) returned to Gaeta, Italy, after completing a month long underway period in the Atlantic Ocean, Nov. 13...
17 December 2015 USS Ross Conducts PASSEX in Black Sea The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) participated in a passing exercise (PASSEX) with ships from Turkey and Romania, Dec. 15...
16 December 2015 Navy Civilian Technologists Show U.S. Naval Academy Midshipmen the Future is Now U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) midshipmen learned first-hand during a visit here that what happens in Dahlgren, does not stay at Dahlgren...
16 December 2015 Navy Band Great Lakes Spreads Holiday Concert Cheer for All to Hear Navy Band Great Lakes (NBGL) recently spread holiday cheer that was music to many ears as the "Ambassadors to the Midwest" performed three holiday concerts in a week December 6, 13 and 14...
16 December 2015 Making Sure Every Drop Counts for the Armed Services Blood Program When Naval Hospital Bremerton (NHB) holds the next Armed Services Blood Program military blood drive Dec. 23, the majority of the donated blood will again support deployed service members...
16 December 2015 NAWCAD/NAWCWD Team Create Sonobuoy Testing System for KC-130T Engineers, technicians and others from three Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) laboratories and the Anti-submarine Warfare Systems program office (PMA-264) rapidly developed a new sonobuoy launching system in the summer and fall of 2015 and completed delivery in late November...
16 December 2015 HSC-4, HSM-78 to Return from Deployment The "Black Knights" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4 and the "Blue Hawks" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 78 are scheduled to return to Naval Air Station North Island (NASNI) Dec. 16-17 following a four month deployment with Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2...