24 October 2019 Naval Hospital Jacksonville Tests Pandemic Plan by Conducting Mass Vaccinations for Flu Naval Hospital Jacksonville (including its five branch health clinics) is conducting mass vaccinations of active-duty personnel and health care workers...
24 October 2019 Marine Corps F-35Bs and USS America Train Together Approximately one dozen, fully-operational F-35B Lightning IIs embarked aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) Oct. 8 during routine training in the eastern Pacific...
23 October 2019 Reconnaissance flights reveal warehouse in Freeport survived Hurricane Dorian A Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southeast Disaster Relief Warehouse (DRW) project, located at Freeport, Grand Bahama, survived Hurricane Dorian after the storm caused widespread devastation to the island in September...
23 October 2019 U.S. Navy Completes Medical Training in Peru The Southern Partnership Station (SPS) 2019 Medical Engagement Team (MET) conducted their final mass casualty drill with Peruvian military medical personnel culminating a month-long series of subject matter expert exchanges (SMEE) and field exercises, Oct. 21...
22 October 2019 NAVSUP WSS Retooling the Interim Supply Support Program NAVSUP WSS, along with its partners,NAVSEA and NAVWAR, launched several pilot programs aimed at providing proofs of concept demonstrating how NAVSUP WSS can gain efficiencies by facilitating the ISS process. Under current policy, NAVSEA and NAVWAR manage the ISS Program...
22 October 2019 NEXCOM Announces NEX Holiday Return Policy Navy Exchange customers can make post-holiday returns at any location worldwide through Jan. 25, 2020. This extended holiday return policy applies to original purchases made between Oct. 24 - Dec. 12, 2019, at any NEX or through myNavyExchange.com...
22 October 2019 Researchers Transmit Energy With Laser in 'Historic' Power-Beaming Demonstration Early power beaming demonstrations took place in 1975. At NRL, electronics engineer, Paul Jaffe, has been conducting space-based solar energy research for more than a decade, focusing in part on transmitting solar energy from space to Earth...
22 October 2019 Truman Sailors Volunteer for Project at Norfolk Botanical Gardens Sailors assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) volunteered at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens Oct. 2 and Oct. 17...
22 October 2019 NMCP Corpsman Creates Painting in Time for Halloween Hospitalman Trudi Hill, a general duty corpsman assigned to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth's (NMCP) Ear, Nose and Throat/Audiology Department, artistically created a playful painting, just in time for Halloween...
22 October 2019 Cybersecurity and Beyond: It Takes a Team Sailors, both enlisted and officers, along with Navy civil servants and contractors, are key to protecting the Navy's cyber infrastructure by practicing four basic but critical cyber principles...