18 September 2017 Fire, Fire, Fire! It was a typical Monday morning aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The ship's executive officer had just come over the ship's internal announcement system telling the crew to "Fire it up!" and man their cleaning stations for the daily cleaning routine...
18 September 2017 Safe Haven: Rhode Island "Captain, we will be receiving USNS Yuma (T-EPF 8) 1300, and USS Shamal (PC 13) 1200 today alongside for safe haven. All service shops have been informed and pier preps are completed."...
16 September 2017 NFAAS Working for Sailors The Navy Family Accountability and Assessment System (NFAAS) has been an essential tool for mustering and documenting needs during the recent hurricane evacuations in the Southeast region...
15 September 2017 New York Native Mitschermen and DESRON 2 Staff Remember Sept. 11 "On Sept. 11, 2001, at 8:45 A.M. on a clear Tuesday morning, American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City," a chief selects solemnly spoke over the ship's 1MC...
14 September 2017 'How To Prepare Evacuation Claims' Training Scheduled at NAS Jacksonville Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Florida, is hosting "how to prepare travel claim evacuation training to streamline the liquidation process " to command pay and personnel administrators (CPPAs) affected by the recent hurricanes...
14 September 2017 Navy Warfare Development Command Publishes Operational Logistics in a Contested Maritime Environment Concept The Navy Warfare Development Command (NWDC) has published a new concept paper which addresses the transformation of the current shore-based logistics model into a distributed, agile, and maneuverable force, able to sustain combat operations at sea in highly contested environments...
14 September 2017 Digital Radiography Upgrade Benefits NHCCP Patients Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point, on Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, recently replaced its traditional GE Proteus Analog X-ray machine with a fully automated Siemens Ysio Max Digital Radiography machine...
14 September 2017 Arctic Ambition: ONR Joins International Mission to Monitor Conditions in Arctic Ocean In an example of international cooperation and scientific collaboration, the Office of Naval Research (ONR) participated in a joint mission to deploy three specialized buoys with sensors into the Arctic Ocean, in the vicinity of the North Pole...
14 September 2017 Coronado Sailors Conduct 9/11 Memorial Firefighting Competition Today there are people applying for driver's licenses that were born after the World Trade Center fell. 16 years later, the Sailors of the littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) took time out of their day to commemorate the day that will never be forgotten...
13 September 2017 Not Far Away: A Shoup Sailor's Memory of 9/11 On Sept. 11, 2001, at approximately 8:45 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City...