25 August 2021 USS America Conducts Cyclic Flight Operations with HMS Queen Elizabeth PHILIPPINE SEA - USS America (LHA 6), the Navy’s only forward-deployed amphibious assault ship, participated in cyclic flight operations with HMS Queen Elizabeth (R 08) in the Philippine Sea, Aug. 22-24...
13 August 2021 505th Command and Control Wing Supports Navy Large Scale Exercise 21 HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. - U.S. Airmen from the 505th Combat Training Squadron and the 505th Communications Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fla., are supporting the U.S. Navy Large Scale Exercise 21 – the biggest U.S. Navy exercise in a generation, according to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday,...
11 August 2021 JS Makinami Directs Force During Combined, and Joint Battle Problem U.S. 7TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY - Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) destroyer JS Makinami (DD 112) took charge as Sea Combat Commander (SCC) during Combined and Joint Battle Problem (CJBP) Aug. 5-10 alongside the USS America (LHA 6) Expeditionary Strike Group and the Royal Australian...
08 July 2021 U.S. Naval War College Celebrates College of Distance Education Graduation The U.S. Naval War College (NWC) celebrated NWC’s College of Distance Education (CDE) graduation on June 24 with a virtual ceremony for 612 students...
06 July 2021 Jacksonville University NROTC unit hosts Sea Trials 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - As Midshipman 2nd Class Meredith Johnson stepped off of the bus and onto the Jacksonville University campus for the first time, a plethora of emotions flooded her body, the most prominent being excitement and fear...
01 July 2021 “Devil Doc” Earns the Title of “Recruiter” SAN DIEGO - If you were to ask Chief Hospital Corpsman (FMF/SW) Marvin B. Guzman where he’s from, the answer is a bit complicated. It might be where he was born; Orion, Bataan, Philippines, or where he became a United States citizen; San Diego, California, or even where he graduated high school;...
14 June 2021 Navy, Coast Guard Conduct Operations in Eastern Pacific PACIFIC OCEAN - The U.S. Navy and the U.S. Coast Guard are conducting integrated operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean in support of the Tri-Service Maritime Strategy...
27 May 2021 A Ceremony to Remember – USS Ross Sailor Reaffirms his Baptism in the Faroe Islands NORTH SEA - Splitting the distance between Iceland and Norway, about four degrees latitude south of the arctic circle, there sits a small, remote archipelago named the Faroe Islands. These islands, an autonomous territory within the kingdom of Denmark, host a community known for its sheep and...
12 April 2021 Sailor Creates Advancement Exam Study Guide for Shipmates PENSACOLA, Fla. - A Sailor assigned to Region Legal Service Office Mid-Atlantic has created an advancement exam study planner for his fellow shipmates, and it is available for download on MyNavy Portal and Navy COOL...
09 April 2021 Coast Guard, Navy Seize Illicit Drugs in Third Fleet Waters SAN DIEGO - The joint U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy team seized over 1,500 kilograms of cocaine while operating in U.S. Third Fleet waters, April 7...