12 September 2023 NAVSAFENVTRACEN Welcomes New Commander NORFOLK, Va. — Cmdr. Nicholas Schaal assumed command of the Naval Safety and Environmental Training Center (NAVSAFENVTRACEN) from Cmdr. Charles Wilhite during a change of command ceremony on Naval Station Norfolk, Sept. 8...
31 August 2023 New Navy Medicine Capability Delivered to Support Missions in the Pacific AGANA HEIGHTS, Guam — Trauma and surgical supplies arrived at Guam in July to support staging for quick deployment of the Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System (ERSS) in the Pacific region...
28 August 2023 BUMED Chief of Staff Says Goodbye to Navy Medicine After 39 Years of Service FALLS CHURCH, Va - On August 25, 2023, Capt. Douglas Stephens, MSC, USN, was piped ashore in a ceremony held at the Naval Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was a fitting venue for the 39-year veteran and the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) Chief of Staff, whose love of the U.S. Navy few could...
24 August 2023 NPS Professor’s DURIP Award Will Take Quantum Research to New Heights Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Professor Dr. Frank Narducci, Chair of the Department of Physics, received a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award to build what could become the most precise atomic instrument of its kind for applications to quantum sensing experiments in...
22 August 2023 Spectrum Management Today and Tomorrow A Recount of NAVIFOR Deputy Commander’s Keynote SAN DIEGO – Naval Information Forces Deputy Commander Ms. Liz Nashold gave keynote remarks at the U.S. Navy-U.S. Marine Corps Electromagnetic Spectrum Summit at the Admiral Kidd Conference Center Aug. 21...
21 August 2023 Republic of Philippine Navy Assumes Command of Multinational Counter-Piracy Task Force MANAMA, Bahrain -- The Republic of Philippine Navy assumed command of a multinational counter-piracy task force during a change-of-command ceremony Aug. 21 at the U.S. Navy base here...
18 August 2023 Navy, Marine Corps conclude Large Scale Exercise 2023 NORFOLK, Va. – More than 25,000 Sailors and Marines across the globe participated in the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps-led Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2023, Aug. 9-18...
18 August 2023 USS Mount Whitney Arrives In Istanbul for Visit Focused On U.S. and Turkish NATO Partnership ISTANBUL, Türkiye -- The Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) arrived in Istanbul, Türkiye for a scheduled port visit on August 18, 2023...
17 August 2023 Farewell, FLIP! Renowned Navy-Owned Research Platform Retired after 60 Years of Service ARLINGTON, Va. -- Built in 1962 with funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), FLIP helped generations of scientists and oceanographers better understand the mysteries of the sea, including internal waves, air-sea interaction and long-range sound propagation. Sadly, age and exorbitant...
17 August 2023 Blue Ridge Returns to Yokosuka, Concludes Summer Patrol YOKOSUKA, Japan -- U.S. 7th Fleet flagship, USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) returned to Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Aug. 17, after a patrol in the Indo-Pacific region...