03 October 2022 FRCE Marks Maintenance Firsts with V-22 Repairs Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) is gearing up to return an MV-22 Osprey to the fleet after conducting a wing-off stow ring replacement on the aircraft, the first completion of this procedure by a Naval Aviation depot. In another inaugural depot-level repair, FRCE artisans tackled corrosion on the...
03 October 2022 Aircrew Receive New Training Devices to Improve Capability, Readiness PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - The Naval Aviation Training Systems and Ranges program office recently delivered the first fully capable Naval Aircrewman Training Systems (NATS) and Marine Common Aircrew Trainers (MCAT) to the fleet...
03 October 2022 First Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Training Facility Opens PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - The Navy opened a new facility July 27 at Joint Expeditionary Base (JEB) Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Virginia, that’s dedicated to training Sailors who will operate the service’s Family of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (FoSUAS)...
03 October 2022 BAMS-D Unmanned Aircraft Returns After Long Deployment PATUXENT RIVER, Md. - The Navy’s Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Demonstrator (BAMS-D) returned June 17 from Fifth Fleet to its home base at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, marking the end of a 13-year deployment that was originally intended to be just six months...
03 October 2022 Marine Attack Squadron 214 Transitions to the F-35B MARINE CORPS AIR STATION YUMA, Ariz. - Marine Attack Squadron (VMA) 214, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 13, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), conducted a re-designation ceremony March 25 at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma, Arizona...
03 October 2022 NAVEUR ships participate in exercise Joint Warrior 22-2 ATLANTIC OCEAN - U.S. Naval Forces Europe (NAVEUR) ships join NATO allies for exercise Joint Warrior 22-2, Oct. 1, 2022...
02 October 2022 NOPF Whidbey Island Changes Name to Theater Undersea Surveillance Command Pacific WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. - Naval Ocean Processing Facility (NOPF) Whidbey Island officially changed its name to Theater Undersea Surveillance Command Pacific (TUSC PAC) during a ceremony held at the command on Sept. 30, 2022...
02 October 2022 NAVFAC Southeast awards contract for Fire Rescue Station at JB Charleston JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Southeast awarded a $26.4 million firm-fixed-price task order, Sept. 29, under a multiple award construction contract, to The Whiting-Turner Contracting Co., from Greenbelt, Maryland, for the construction of a flight line...
01 October 2022 USNS Mercy Concludes Pacific Partnership 2022 SAN DIEGO- Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) returned to its homeport Sept. 30 following completion of the 17th annual Pacific Partnership mission...
30 September 2022 USS Ramage Chief Selected for George Sirian Award NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. - The Surface Navy Association (SNA) presented the 2022 Master Gunner George Sirian Meritorious Service Award to Chief Gas Turbine Systems Technician (Mechanical) Adam Yenny, during a ceremony aboard USS Constitution, Sept. 30, 2022...