12 August 2020 Typhoon Season - Are You Ready? Despite the current COVID-19 environment, Naval Oceanography Anti-Submarine Warfare Center (NOAC) Yokosuka, Japan, conducted the annual Typhoon Ready Reliant Gale exercise on 27-30 April 2020. This annual typhoon preparedness exercise is conducted prior to the onset of typhoon season to prepare...
11 August 2020 NAVSUP FLC Bahrain Hosts Virtual Tour of the Fleet Post Office Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Bahrain hosted a virtual tour of the fleet post office to explain mail processes for the Morale Welfare and Recreation (MWR) Bahrain Summer Reading Program, July 9...
11 August 2020 USS Pinckney Interdicts $4.5 Million in Cocaine The Arleigh Burke-Class Destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91) with embarked U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) team seized over 120 kilograms of suspected cocaine July 24...
11 August 2020 WESS SUNDOWNS AUG. 28, RMI BECOMES OFFICIAL SAFETY MISHAP REPORTING SYSTEM The Department of the Navy (DON) will no longer use the Web Enabled Safety System (WESS) to report safety mishaps when the Naval Safety Center (NAVSAFECEN) sundowns the system Aug. 28. Risk Management Information (RMI) Streamlined Incident Reporting (SIR) will become the official reporting system,...
11 August 2020 USS Stennis (CVN 74) with Carrier Air Wing Nine (CVW 9) and USS Boxer (LHD 4) with the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (11th MEU) receive Admiral Flatley Memorial Award for Aviation Safety The Navy annually recognizes one aircraft carrier and one amphibious ship with its attached air wing (CVW) and Marine expeditionary unit (MEU), respectively, with the Admiral Flatley Memorial Award for Aviation Safety. This year’s recipients are USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) with CVW 9 and USS Boxer...
11 August 2020 Recruit Training Command and Partners Work Together to Transform Drill Halls into Barracks GREAT LAKES, Ill. (August 11, 2020) – In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Recruit Training Command (RTC) at Naval Station Great Lakes, the U.S. Navy’s only boot camp, has added millions of dollars of safety precautions for America’s newest Sailors as they train to enter the fleet...
09 August 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group Returns from Deployment USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) carrier strike group returned home to Norfolk Naval Station Aug. 9 after seven months operating in 5th and 6th Fleet...
08 August 2020 AEGIS Ashore Missile Defense Facility in Romania Changes Command The Aegis Ashore Missile Defense Facility (AAMDF) located aboard Naval Support Facility (NSF) Deveselu held a change-of-command ceremony in Deveselu, Romania, Aug. 7...
08 August 2020 U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ship USS St. Louis Joins the Fleet The U.S. Navy commissioned Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS St. Louis (LCS 19), August 8.Due to public health safety concerns and restrictions of large public gatherings related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the Navy commissioned St. Louis at a private event...
07 August 2020 Chief of Navy Reserve Changes Command Vice Adm. John B. Mustin relieved Vice Adm. Luke M. McCollum as Chief of Navy Reserve and Commander, Navy Reserve Force, during a change of command ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard, Aug. 7...