18 March 2020 Ford's Portside Anchor Makes Splash for First Time USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) conducted an inaugural anchoring evolution during its independent steaming event on March 15. It was the first time Ford conducted the evolution using its port side anchor...
18 March 2020 NETC Deputy Commander Visits CNATTU North Island Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit North Island (CNATTU NI) Sailors and Marines welcomed aboard Rear Adm. Robert Nowakowski, Naval Education and Training Command deputy commander, Mar. 10...
18 March 2020 Test Pilot School Passes Latest Aviation Maintenance Inspection The U.S. Naval Test Pilot School passed its 2020 Aviation Maintenance Inspection, a critical component of command readiness. "The results are a direct reflection on the level of professionalism we have in the hangar," said maintenance officer Lt. Andrew Fedak. "I'm really proud of the team."...
17 March 2020 Kathy Lewis Receives 2020 Peggy B. Craig Lifetime Service Award NAVFAC Southwest Senior Paralegal Specialist Kathy V. Lewis received the 2020 Peggy B. Craig Lifetime Service Award for 27 years of excellent service to the command as its senior Paralegal Specialist and Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Coordinator...
17 March 2020 Future USS Delbert D. Black Successfully Completes Acceptance Trials The future guided-missile destroyer USS Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) successfully completed acceptance trials on March 12, returning to Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Ingalls Shipbuilding Division after spending two days at sea in the Gulf of Mexico...
17 March 2020 Training Squadron 35 Receives Adm. John H. Towers Flight Safety Award The Order of Daedalians awarded the "Stingrays" of multi-engine Training Squadron (VT) 35 with the 2019 Adm. John H. Towers Flight Safety Award, March 16...
17 March 2020 USS California Holds Change of Command The nuclear-powered, Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS California (SSN 781) held a change of command ceremony in the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Auditorium, March 13...
17 March 2020 Updated Training Track Guidance Issued The Navy has issued amplifying guidance to the recently issued "stop movement" order that has frozen non-mission essential transfers and official travel until May 11...
16 March 2020 Navy Merges Sub Radio and IT Ratings Starting this summer, one of the silent service's newest ratings - Information Systems Technician (Submarines), or ITS for short, will nearly triple in size as it merges with the fellow submarine rating Electronics Technician (Radio), known as ETRs...
16 March 2020 Navy Museums Temporarily Close Naval History and Heritage Command has directed all U.S. Navy museums to temporarily close to the public until March 31 as a precautionary measure to avoid large groups of people to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19...