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)...
30 March 2016 Remains Returned Home 75 Years Later More than 74 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, USS Oklahoma Chief Metalsmith Duff Gordon's remains were returned to his hometown of Hudson, Wisconsin, March 29...
30 March 2016 US 7th Fleet, Sri Lanka Enhance Bilateral Cooperation Senior military leaders from U.S. 7th Fleet and the Sri Lanka navy and air force met to discuss operational topics aboard the Fleet's flagship USS Blue Ridge, March 29...
30 March 2016 A Corsair Comes Home Near the end of World War II most carrier aircraft that flew missions over Japan would strike their targets and return. Generally those that didn't come back after a mission never would, but for one Corsair coming back just took a little longer...
30 March 2016 Navy Announces SAAPM 2016 Theme: "Eliminate Sexual Assault: Know your part. Do your part" Navy leaders announced March 30, the 2016 Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month (SAAPM) theme of "Eliminate Sexual Assault: Know your part. Do your part."...
29 March 2016 Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System Pilot Class Graduates The pilot class for the revised Gigabit Ethernet Data Multiplex System recently graduated after completing a seven-week training course conducted by the Center for Surface Combat Systems Unit Dam Neck...
29 March 2016 NAVFAC's iNFADS Celebrates 15th Anniversary Do you know where your building is located? Yes, of course you do. But in addition to its physical location, your building is also located in the internet Navy Facilities Asset Data Store (iNFADS), which celebrated its 15th anniversary, March 2016...