09 August 2016 Carderock Employee Receives PEO IWS Excellence Award for Historic Missile Test A Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division employee received a Program Executive Office for Integrated Warfare Systems Excellence (PEO IWS) Award July 28...
09 August 2016 Naval Base San Diego Changes Command Capt. Roy Love relieved Capt. Curt Jones as commanding officer of Naval Base San Diego (NBSD) during a change of command ceremony Aug. 4...
09 August 2016 USS Makin Island Completes INSURV Amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) successfully completed a four-day material inspection by the Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) Aug. 3...
09 August 2016 SWRMC Awards First Interior Communications Electrician NEC through NAMTS Program Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC) awarded its first Interior Communications Electrician (IC) Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) through the Navy Afloat Maintenance Training Strategy (NAMTS) program at an awards ceremony in the SWRMC Engine Shop July 28...
09 August 2016 Air Force and Navy Medical Teams Integrate at Sea Airmen from the U.S. Air Force 379th Expeditionary Medical Group (EMG), Mobile Field Surgical Team (MFST) and Expeditionary Critical Care Team (ECCT) are embarked aboard amphibious transport dock USS San Antonio (LPD 17)...
09 August 2016 Boxer Arrives in Malaysia for Port Call Amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4), along with the embarked 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, arrived in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Aug. 9, for a scheduled port visit...
09 August 2016 USS Whidbey Island Transits Suez Canal Amphibious dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41), with embarked U.S. Marines of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), transited the Suez Canal and entered the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations, Aug. 7...
09 August 2016 Readout of Pacific Fleet commander's meeting with PLA Navy North Sea Fleet commander Adm. Scott Swift, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, visited the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy North Sea Fleet headquarters where he met with fleet commander Vice Adm. Yuan Yubai, Aug. 8. Swift joined Yuan on a tour of the PLA(N) frigate Daqing (FFG 576) the following day...
08 August 2016 NAVSTA Rota Completes Integrated Fire Drill with FDNF Ships Guided-missile destroyers USS Donald Cook (DDG 75), USS Porter (DDG 78) and personnel assigned to Naval Station Rota's Fire and Emergency Services department conducted a major integrated fire drill on the pier, Aug. 3...
08 August 2016 New President Takes Helm at US Naval War College Rear Adm. Jeffrey A. Harley relieved Rear Adm. P. Gardner Howe III to become the 56th president of the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, during a change of command ceremony, July 25...