15 July 2016 Wasp ARG Completes Exercise African Sea Lion with Morocco Wasp Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the embarked 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) completed joint and bilateral exercise African Sea Lion 2016, July 14...
15 July 2016 USS Mason, USS Roosevelt Work With French for Maritime Security Operations Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Mason (DDG 87) and USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) participated with the French Marine Nationale's Horizon-class air defence destroyer FS Forbin (D 620) in a bilateral Maritime Security Operation (MSO) exercise, July 2...
15 July 2016 Humble Beginnings Onexi Medina grew up in the countryside municipality of Utuado, a small town in the mountains of Puerto Rico with seven brothers and four sisters. His family, like most there, didn't grow up with a silver spoon; his father worked for Baxter Medical Products and his mother was a stay-at-home mom...
15 July 2016 USS Ross Begins 4th FDND Patrol Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG 71) departed Rota, Spain for a scheduled patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility July 14...
15 July 2016 Navy P-8 Poseidon Crews Enhance Maritime Partnerships During Rotational Detachments to Singapore U.S. 7th Fleet will rotationally deploy two P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to Singapore from July 15 through August 12, in support of shared maritime security initiatives...
14 July 2016 NAVFAC Southeast Awards Energy Project for Marine Corps Support Facility Blount Island Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southeast awarded a nearly $4.7 million Utility Energy Services Contract (UESC) for energy saving upgrades aboard Marine Corps Support Facility (MCSF) Blount Island located in Jacksonville, Florida, July 6 to TECO Peoples Gas of Tampa, Florida...
14 July 2016 Navy Virtualizes Schoolhouse Training The Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I), multiple Navy program offices and the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR) are knocking out milestones in the quest to virtualize training for Sailors on shipboard systems...
14 July 2016 USFF Force Protection Advisory Message According to multiple sources, protests and public gatherings are scheduled throughout the United States and Canada through July 16 in response to two recent fatal police shootings...
13 July 2016 NAVSTA Urinalysis Program Reinforces Zero Tolerance Sailors assigned to Naval Station Norfolk (NAVSTA) Security Department perform the complex and time-consuming job of collecting, shipping and processing more than 100 urine samples each month...
13 July 2016 Jewish Institute Seeks to Award Sailors for Grateful Nation Award The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) is accepting nominations for its Grateful Nation Award during JINSA's 34th annual Award Dinner in Washington, D.C...