30 March 2016 VCNO Announces Shore Sailor of the Year Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michelle Howard announced the 2015 Navy Shore Sailor of the Year during a ceremony held at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., March 30...
30 March 2016 A Goal Realized Aboard Harper's Ferry The twin engines howl and the hull of the rigid-hull inflatable boat shakes as it absorbs the impacts of countless waves. Aboard this small boat ride Gunner's Mate Seaman Lyrics Ramirez and the other members of USS Harpers Ferry's (LSD 49) visit, board, search and seizure team...
30 March 2016 Surgical Team Brings More Than Medicine to Boxer's Fight The Navy integrated Fleet Surgical Team 3 with USS Boxer's Medical department to expand the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group's and 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit's medical capabilities during deployment...
30 March 2016 Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet Visits USS Donald Cook Commander, U.S. 6th Fleet, Vice Adm. James Foggo III visited USS Donald Cook in Rota, March 29...
30 March 2016 Preventive Medicine Team Drills to Address Health Threats in Austere Environments Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit FIVE (NEPMU-5) completed a one-week field training exercise at the Navy Expeditionary Medicine Training Institute on board Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, March 18...
30 March 2016 Helping Hands They may be seen working in libraries and chapels. They provide you a way to keep in contact with your family. You probably won't see them performing maintenance on too many machines or equipment. They are the Religious Program Specialists (RPs) aboard USS Kearsarge...
30 March 2016 A Corsair Comes Home On March 18, 1945 19 F4U Corsair fighter-bombers, including those of Fighter Squadron (VF) 10, took off from USS Intrepid (CV 11). Since their activation in 1942, the Grim Reapers of VF10 had flown missions across the Pacific, fighting over Guadalcanal, the Marshalls and the Philippines. On this...
30 March 2016 Can You Pass the Test? When this comes over the 1MC, every Sailor knows to stop whatever it is they're doing and get to their assigned general quarters station. It doesn't matter if you are a boatswain's mate or an intelligence specialist. We all have the same firefighting training.Culinary specialists and electrician's...
30 March 2016 Stout Sailors Celebrate Easter Services at Sea Sailors assigned to guided-missile destroyer USS Stout (DDG-55) celebrated their Easter holiday March 27 while conducting a composite training unit exercise in preparation for deployment...
30 March 2016 USNS Yuma Keel Authenticated Austal USA hosted a ceremony, March 29, celebrating the keel authentication of the Navy's eighth expeditionary fast transport ship, the USNS Yuma (EPF 8)...