08 December 2021 NPS’ Modeling, Virtual Reality Center Reimagines Navy Training MONTEREY, Calif. - Before making offensive or defensive maneuvers, it’s important to run through all the scenarios of what might happen. But when those moves involve massive aircraft carriers and multi-thousand-person crews, it can be a cumbersome, unrealistic task to always rehearse plays and train...
08 December 2021 National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Visits Naval Oceanography STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. - Naval Oceanography hosted Mr. James Griffith, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Director, Source Operations and Management Directorate—along with other NGA personnel—for a detailed overview of Commander Naval Meteorology ad Oceanography Command (CNMOC) for...
08 December 2021 U.S. Navy Opens New Interagency Counter Narcotics Facility in Bahrain MANAMA, Bahrain - Leaders from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of State, and U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony Dec. 8 at Naval Support Activity Bahrain for a new facility that will enable interagency partners to share information for countering drug trafficking in the...
08 December 2021 USS Barry Presented Spokane Trophy YOKOSUKA, Japan – Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet announced USS Barry (DDG 52) as the Spokane Trophy winner for 2020 on March 24...
08 December 2021 USS Charleston, Timor-Leste Conclude Sea Phase of CARAT Timor-Leste PORT HERA, Timor-Leste – Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18) and Timor-Leste Defense Force (F-FDTL) partnered in the 27th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) maritime exercise in the territorial waters surrounding Port Hera, Dec. 6-7...
08 December 2021 USFFC Holds Change of Command, Welcomes 43rd Commander NORFOLK, Va. - Adm. Christopher Grady was relieved by Adm. Daryl Caudle as commander, U.S. Fleet Forces (USFFC), in a ceremony aboard aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Dec. 7...
08 December 2021 Ceremony Commemorates Pearl Harbor 80th Anniversary PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii - World War II veterans, including survivors of the Dec. 7, 1941, attack, joined family, friends, dignitaries and service members in the remembrance ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam's Kilo Pier, Dec. 7...
07 December 2021 NAVFAC’s First SIOP OICC Announces Selection of Civilian, Military Engineers of the Year NORFOLK, Va. - Officer in Charge of Construction (OICC) Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Maine recently announced its selection for the 2022 Civilian and Military Engineers of the Year...
07 December 2021 U.S. Sixth Fleet Hosts FS Auvergne, Porter Visits Marseille, France NAPLES, Italy - U.S. Sixth Fleet (SIXTHFLT) hosted French FREMM Frigate FS Auvergne’s (D 654) leadership at its headquarters in Naples, Italy, while France welcomed the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) to Marseille, France this past week...
07 December 2021 NNSY Ships Played Pivotal Role in Defending Pearl Harbor Attack PORTSMOUTH, Va. - It was only a day later when President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared it “a date which will live in infamy.”...