31 October 2017 Abraham Lincoln CWIS PAC Fire The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) conducted a pre-action aim calibration (PAC) fire on close-in weapons system (CIWS) while underway, Oct. 5...
31 October 2017 Abraham Lincoln Makes Potable Water The reactor department aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) works countless hours keeping the ship running and operational. Of their many essential jobs, one in particular sometimes flies under the radar...
31 October 2017 Lincoln Updates Navigation System The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) navigation department is undergoing a switch from paper charts to the Voyage Management System (VMS), a fully-electronic system of charts...
31 October 2017 New Pilots Qualify Aboard Lincoln The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) hosted 24 student pilots, from Commander, Naval Air Training Detachment for their first landings on an aircraft carrier...
31 October 2017 USS Sampson Holds Burial at Sea The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson (DDG 102) held a burial at sea on the ship's flight deck, Oct. 26...
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...