05 October 2022 NAS Patuxent River Promotes Safety with Base-Wide FOD Walk Down NAS PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - Standing shoulder-to-shoulder as they methodically made their way down the runway looking for anything large enough to pick up with their fingers, volunteers at NAS Patuxent River came together to support an often overlooked part of every day’s flight operations...
05 October 2022 Keel Authenticated for the Future USNS Saginaw Ojibwe Anishinabek The keel for the future USNS Saginaw Ojibwe Anishinabek (T-ATS 8) was ceremonially laid at Bollinger Houma Shipyards, Oct. 3. ...
05 October 2022 Keel Authenticated for T-AGS 67 The keel for the Navy’s next oceanographic survey ship (T-AGS 67) was ceremonially laid at Halter Marine in Pascagoula, MS, Oct. 4. The keel authenticator was Rear Admiral Tom Anderson, Program Executive Officer, Ships...
05 October 2022 Memorial that honors the sacrifices of Navy Corpsmen to be unveiled CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. – Just outside Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, structures and statues rise from a plot of land. This space is hallowed ground, where names and sacrifices are not forgotten. The Lejeune Memorial Gardens pays respects to those who have shaped United States military...
05 October 2022 NAVSUP WSS Holds Webcast With Panel of Experts NAVSUP Weapon Systems Support hosted its third webcast series Aug. 9, with three senior leader panelists discussing Naval Sustainment System-Supply (NSS-Supply), the Navy’s new supply chain transformation effort. More than 400 virtual participants from across the Department of Defense’s...
05 October 2022 Navy Price Fighters Hotline: Saving the Navy Money for More Than 40 Years In response to highly publicized stories of spare parts and equipment overpricing, the Navy established the Price Challenge Hotline in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania in 1979. More than 40 years later, the hotline is still in use and has resulted in cost avoidance totaling more than one billion dollars...
05 October 2022 USS Porter completes Forward Deployed Naval Forces-Europe service NAVAL STATION ROTA, Spain - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) departed Naval Station Rota, Spain, on Sept. 28, 2022, marking the end of its time as a Forward Deployed Naval Forces-Europe (FDNF-E) destroyer...
05 October 2022 USS Delbert D. Black Holds Change of Command in Qatar Guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) welcomed a new commander during a change of command ceremony Oct. 5, while pierside in Mesaieed, Qatar...
05 October 2022 USS Forrest Sherman Arrives in Tarantino, Italy for Port Visit TARANTINO, Italy - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98) arrived in Taranto, Italy for a scheduled port visit, September 30, 2022...
05 October 2022 U.S., Japan, and the Republic of Korea Conduct a Trilateral Ballistic Missile Defense Exercise Following the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) ballistic missile launch over Japan on Oct. 4 (local time), which was part of a larger series of launches over the past two weeks, Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) and Arleigh Burke-class...