20 August 2016 Boxer Qualifies First Female Helmsman in 10 Years When the Sailors and Marines aboard amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4) set sail Feb. 12, many of them set goals to accomplish during deployment...
19 August 2016 NAVFAC Southwest Awards $9.6 Million for Camp Pendleton Combat Facility Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southwest awarded a $9.6 million task order Aug. 8 in San Diego, for the construction of the Combat Service Support Facility for Marine Corps Special Operations Command (MARSOC) at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton...
19 August 2016 NAVSUP GLS Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary With Run/Walk Naval Supply Systems Command Global Logistics Support (NAVSUP GLS) celebrated its 10-year anniversary with a commemorative run/walk outside its headquarters building, August 10...
19 August 2016 Greener Each Day, Ike Lights the Way The aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is on its way to a brighter and more energy efficient future. In an effort to go green and make itself the radiant jewel of the Great Green Fleet (GGF) Initiative, Ike has begun the great task of upgrading the aircraft carrier to LED lighting systems...
19 August 2016 Nimitz Sailors Cleanup Wildlife Sanctuary Sailors assigned to aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) took part in an ongoing cleanup effort and trail restoration project at One Heart Wild Education Sanctuary in Silverdale, Washington, Aug. 17...
19 August 2016 Southern Partnership Station 2016 Doctors Fight Against Zika in Honduras Seven U.S. Navy medical personnel, deployed in support of Southern Partnership Station 2016 (SPS-16) partnered with the Honduran health workers of Operation Blessing to provide preventive medicine education and combat the Zika virus...
19 August 2016 628th SFS Airman Takes Helm, Steers into History A few miles from the bustling runways full of cargo planes at Joint Base Charleston, one airman is acquiring his "sea legs." Senior Airman Austin Walworth, 628th Security Forces Squadron, recently earned the Navy's small craft insignia...
19 August 2016 Statement of Cooperation Signing in Australia Aims to Advance Biofuels Development A Statement of Cooperation between the U.S. Navy and the northeastern state of Queensland was the culmination of a week of Great Green Fleet events in Australia to promote the Navy's energy efficiency and alternative energy initiatives...
19 August 2016 International Hydrographic Program Graduates Seven The 2016 International Hydrographic Management and Engineering Program (IHMEP) graduated seven students at a ceremony held at the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Professional Development Center, Aug. 17...
19 August 2016 Engineers Exchange Vital Disaster Management Strategies During Pacific Partnership 2016 Pacific Partnership engineers, along with more than 100 students and faculty from the University of Malaysia-Padang (UMP) Engineering & Earth Resources program, met for a four-day subject matter expert exchange on engineering in a disaster response context during Pacific Partnership 2016...