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...
19 August 2016 Pacific Partnership 2016 and Malaysian Armed Forces Team Up for Search and Rescue Exercise Pacific Partnership 2016 and Malaysian armed forces (MAF) personnel collaborated to execute a search and rescue exercise (SAREX) that ended with a casualty response drill aboard hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), Aug. 14...
18 August 2016 Sailors Attend Navy's First Career Development Symposium U.S. Fleet Forces (USFF) Command, the Chief of Naval Personnel, and U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLT) hosted the inaugural Navy Career Development and Navy Career Counselor Training Symposium at the Virginia Beach Convention Center in Virginia Beach, Virginia, Aug. 15-17...
18 August 2016 Pax River, REPI partner with Delaware to preserve land for conservation, mission readiness The Navy recently closed on its first conservation easement in Delaware on the Cod Creek Property in Sussex County...