31 March 2017 CNATTU Keesler Celebrates CPO's 124th Birthday Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit (CNATTU) Keesler Chief Petty Officer's celebrated the 124th Birthday of the U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer's 124 with two events, culminating in a cake-cutting ceremony March 31...
31 March 2017 New Commander Takes the Helm at Navy Installations Command Vice Adm. Mary M. Jackson relieved Vice Adm. Dixon R. Smith at a change of command ceremony for Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) March 31, at the Washington Navy Yard...
31 March 2017 CNATTU Oceana Service Members Organize, Participate in ASBP Blood Drive Six Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit (CNATTU) Oceana service members volunteered in support of Naval Medical Center (NMC) Portsmouth, Virginia, Blood Donor Center's quarterly Armed Service Blood Program (ASBP) Blood Drive in Oceana, Virginia, March 10...
31 March 2017 NAVSUP Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella Fuels C-17 with New Hydrant System Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) site Sigonella's Fuel Team, led by Fuels Officer Lt.j.g. Igor Mendel, successfully operated a new hydrant system to refill a C-17 aircraft March 22...
31 March 2017 Philadelphia Students Inspired to "Dream Bigger" at NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support Career Day "If your dreams don't scare you, you are not dreaming big enough," challenged Jimmy Smith, deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for expeditionary programs and logistics management (DASN E&LM), at the NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support (NAVSUP WSS)-sponsored Navy Career Day, March 23...
31 March 2017 "50 Years of Leadership" The feature introduced the master chiefs to the fleet as potential holders of a new rank: the Navy's first senior enlisted leader (SEA), better known as the master chief petty officer of the Navy (MCPON).The new senior enlisted advisor would advise the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) on the...
31 March 2017 US, Iraq, Kuwait Conduct First Trilateral Exercise in Northern Arabian Gulf The U.S. Navy, Army and Coast Guard together with the Iraqi navy and Kuwait navy and coast guard, conducted the first in a series of U.S.-Iraq-Kuwait trilateral exercises in the Arabian Gulf, March 13-15...
31 March 2017 Wounded Warrior Recovery Project Reports on Combat Amputees' Quality of Life A recent study by researchers at the Naval Health Research Center (NHRC) found that participants with combat-related amputations reported poorer health-related quality of life (HRQOL) than non-amputee participants with combat-related injuries...
31 March 2017 Navy Information Warfare to be featured at Sea-Air-Space Expo This year's U.S. Navy Information Warfare (IW) pavilion at the Navy League hosted Sea-Air-Space Exposition (SAS) will demonstrate the Navy's commitment to warfighting in the information age through the use of speakers, panels, subject matter experts and capability displays April 3-5...
31 March 2017 Carrier XO Returns Home to Austin for Navy Week There are ten commissioned U.S. Navy aircraft carriers in the world. That means there are only ten active duty aircraft carrier executive officers, one of whom was able to return to his hometown of Austin during the city's Navy Week this month...