02 May 2022 DDGs Lassen and Delbert Black Arrive to Fort Lauderdale for Fleet Week FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – For the next week, Southeast Florida residents will have the opportunity to see and tour Navy and U.S. Coast Guard ships as Fleet Week Port Everglades kicks into gear...
02 May 2022 USS Mount Whitney Visits Djibouti CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti – The Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) arrived in the Port of Djibouti, Apr. 24, for a sustainment and logistics visit supported by the N4 supply department of Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti (CLDJ)...
02 May 2022 Angels of the Airfields: Navy Nurses of Iwo Jima and Okinawa When the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) Douglas R4D broke through the clouds of volcanic dust and smoke to land on Iwo Jima on March 6 1945, it carried more than whole blood and medical supplies for the wounded. On board this inaugural air evacuation flight was a 22-year old nurse named Jane...
01 May 2022 Royal Australian Navy Conducts Weapons Handling Exercise with USS Springfield PERTH, Australia - The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Springfield (SSN 761) completed a weapons handling exercise involving the transfer of an inert training shape from Royal Australian Navy assets ashore to the submarine, while moored at HMAS Stirling navy base, April 28, 2022...
29 April 2022 Profiles in Professionalism: Senior Chief Operations Specialist Jason Kiritschenko MINNEAPOLIS - A young chef decided to take a leap out of the frying pan and into the fire in 1997. From a small kitchen in the town of Maplewood, Minnesota to a Norfolk, Virginia-based Nimitz class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier...
29 April 2022 REDCOM FW Victim Advocates Raise Awareness with SAPR 5K NAVAL AIR STATION JOINT RESERVE BASE, Fort Worth - Navy Reserve Region Readiness and Mobilization Command Fort Worth’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response victim advocate (SAPR VA) team hosted a SAPR 5K command event at the Airfield Falls Trailhead & Conservation Park, April 29...
29 April 2022 Continuing a Naval Tradition One Poem At a Time WASHINGTON NAVY YARD - “A starry night in 7th fleet/ Another year we sail to meet/ 3,000 miles across the mighty Pacific/ Dreaming of home, how could we not miss it?/ Leaving San Diego’s June gloom in our wake/ Deployment ’21 a salty Sailor will make” wrote Ens. Sarah Weinstein, on the first night...
29 April 2022 U.S. 4th Fleet and USNS Burlington Conduct Fleet Experimentation in Key West ATLANTIC OCEAN - The Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport vessel USNS Burlington (T-EPF-10) completed U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet 2022 Fleet Experimentation events in Key West, Fla. April 22-27, 2022...
29 April 2022 NATO's maritime search and rescue exercise kicks off in the Atlantic NORTH SEA - NATO's maritime search and rescue exercise, Dynamic Mercy, involving NATO's search and rescue facilities and units, and Partnership for Peace countries, kicked off in the Norwegian Sea on April 19...
28 April 2022 USS America completes integrated industrial firefighting drill SASEBO, Japan - USS America (LHA 6), the Navy’s only forward-deployed amphibious assault ship, successfully completed an integrated firefighting drill with base firefighters onboard U.S. Fleet Activities Sasebo, April 27...