01 February 2017 14 Navy Recruiters Receive Top Recognition The top Navy recruiters of 2016 were recognized during a Navy Recruiting Command's (NRC) Recruiter of the Year ceremony held at the U.S. Navy Memorial in Washington D.C., Feb. 1...
01 February 2017 A Port, Ship Stir Fond Memories of 'Uncle Joe' On December 6, 1941, Joseph Vincent Brahosky was a coal miner at the Jameson Coal Company in Ensburgh, Pennsylvania, who got up every work day, donned coal mining gear and went underground to collect a precious resource vital to industry and the community...
01 February 2017 CIWT Announces Civilians of the Quarter Center for Information Warfare Training (CIWT) announced its 2016 fourth quarter Civilians of the Quarter (CoQs), Feb.1...
01 February 2017 Naval War College Launches Institute for Future Warfare Studies U.S. Naval War College (NWC) President Rear Adm. Jeffrey Harley opened the Institute for Future Warfare Studies (IFWS), Feb. 1, as a new research and study department of the school aimed at understanding how armed conflict may evolve in the future and how the U.S. can better prepare for it...
01 February 2017 The Virtues of Navy Nursing Compassion, courage, humility, perseverance -- these are a few of the characteristics our favorite fictional superheroes are thought to exemplify. In the real world, they are the virtues embodied by a Navy nurse...
01 February 2017 Enhancing Public Awareness of the Navy through Music For Navy recruiters, reaching out to potential recruits in non-coastal areas can be particularly challenging...
01 February 2017 Navy Establishes Four New Ratings The Navy announced Wednesday the establishment of four new ratings for active duty Sailors, yeoman submarine (YNS), logistics specialist submarine (LSS), culinary specialist submarine (CSS) and fire controlman Aegis (FCA) in NAVADMIN 021/17...
31 January 2017 Sound Off! The Navy, Hearing Protection, Mobile Devices Noise is an unavoidable fact of life on U.S. Navy vessels and during naval operations. Jets roar as they take off and land. Engine room machinery churns in an ear-splitting cacophony of sound. Weapons fire deafening rounds...
31 January 2017 Operation Deep Freeze: Cargo Handling, Not for the Faint of Heart Sailors assigned to Navy Cargo Handling Battalion (NCHB) 1 have commenced cargo-handling operations at McMurdo Station in Antarctica in support of the U.S. Antarctic Program, which is managed by the National Science Foundation...
31 January 2017 BRS Opt-in Course Now On-Line Tuesday, the Navy released NAVADMIN 020/17 announcing the release and availability of the Blended Retirement System (BRS) Opt-In course...