06 August 2015 A Veteran's Last Five Minutes One of the most important benefits any military veteran earns is the right for their selfless service to be honored when they fall. Every warrior's death, whether in combat, old age, sickness or accidental, is finalized by the presentation of a folded flag to their loved ones...
06 August 2015 Icon of POW Studies and Treatment Dies at 97 A 97-year-old icon in the study and treatment of Repatriated Prisoners of War (RPW) passed Aug. 5 in his home in Pensacola, Florida...
05 August 2015 Plebes Near Completion of Summer Training U.S. Naval Academy's plebes, or midshipmen fourth class (freshmen), are nearing the end of their six-week, boot camp style training program, Plebe Summer...
30 July 2015 Seabees Receive Tactical Field Training U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 trained 35 Seabees on practical and leadership skills at the Tactical Unit Leader Course (TULC) at Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, July 7-17...
29 July 2015 Midshipmen Complete Mountain Warfare Training More than 200 Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) and U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) midshipmen felt a burn after hiking up one of the many elevated paths in the Sierra Nevada mountain range here at the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC) here, July 13...
28 July 2015 Central, South America Partners Gather for PANAMAX More than 75 military personnel, including 54 members of partner-nation navies, assembled July 27 on Naval Station Mayport for PANAMAX 2015, an exercise aimed at developing strong working relationships between multinational forces to ensure the defense of the Panama Canal...
27 July 2015 Solomon Islands Celebrates Completion of School Renovations With Seabees Pacific Partnership 2015 personnel celebrated the completion of Vura Primary School during a ribbon cutting ceremony July 23 in the Solomon Islands...
25 July 2015 US 3rd Fleet Holds Change of Command Ceremony Vice Adm. Nora Tyson relieved Vice Adm. Kenny Floyd as commander, U.S. 3rd Fleet during a change of command and retirement ceremony held on Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) while pierside at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego July 24...
24 July 2015 COMNAVSURFLANT Holds Change of Command Rear Adm. Christopher W. Grady relieved Rear Adm. Pete A. Gumataotao as commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic (SURFLANT) July 24 during a ceremony aboard USS Wisconsin (BB 64)...
21 July 2015 MWR Hosts Celebratory 5K on GW Flight Deck Sailors aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) took part in a 5-kilometer run on the ship's flight deck, July 19...