CAMP LEMONNIER, Djibouti - The forward-deployed Expeditionary Sea Base USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) swapped crews in Djibouti after completing the ship’s third deployment through the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations, Dec. 15, 2021...

GUAM - The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine arrived at Naval Base Guam following a change of homeport from Pearl Harbor, Hawaii...

WASHINGTON - Having a baby is a joyous time that can also be stressful and expensive. To relieve some of that stress, the Navy and the Department of Defense launched a pilot program to provide maternity uniforms at no cost to the Sailor...

DILI, East Timor - As part of the 27th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) series, CARAT Timor-Leste 2021 concluded Dec. 15, following nine days of virtual, in-person and at-sea engagements that enhanced collaboration between the Timor-Leste Defense Force (F-FDTL) and U.S...

ARLINGTON, Va. - The Department of the Navy’s (DoN) Historically Black Colleges and Universities/Minority Institutions (HBCU/MI) Program—located at the Office of Naval Research (ONR)—recently announced the inaugural winners of its Distinguished Fellows Program...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - At 73 years of age, NAVFAC Southeast employee Robert "Ken" Sessions reaches the 50-year milestone in federal service and shows no signs of slowing down...

WASHINGTON - Cmdr. Mark deVry and Lt. Cmdr. Matthew Dursa – both admiralty Law specialists affiliated with the Navy Reserve Law Program – recently returned home after volunteering on short notice to assist Louisiana officials in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.  The storm – which made landfall in...

BAHRAIN - U.S. Navy personnel rescued five mariners Dec. 15 after a fire caused an explosion aboard their vessel, which was smuggling illicit drugs while transiting the Gulf of Oman...

PENSACOLA, Fla. - MilGears focuses on Sailors’ personal and unique qualifications to produce career pathway outcomes while in service or afterwards...

WASHINGTON - Ruth E. Black Koczela, a 100 year-old World War II Navy veteran, visited the chapel at her former duty station, the Nebraska Avenue Complex (NAC), formerly the Naval Communication Annex, Dec. 14 where she married a fellow naval officer in 1942...