24 September 2021 Navy “SWO Boss” Honors Accomplishments of NPS Summer Graduates MONTEREY, Calif. - For just the second time in 2021, the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) celebrated a graduating class in person during a hybrid ceremony for its Summer Quarter graduates, Sept. 24 in King Auditorium, honoring and recognizing the remarkable achievements and resiliency of the class...
24 September 2021 Last Marine Corps Weapons Systems Officers Earn Wings of Gold at NAS Pensacola CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- The Marine Corps’ last weapons systems officers (WSO) received their Wings of Gold along with 10 naval flight officers (NFO) during a ceremony at the National Naval Aviation Museum aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, Sept. 24...
20 September 2021 NPS Hosts JIFX 21-4 at Camp Roberts and SLAMR in Monterey MONTEREY, Calif. - The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) held the latest iteration of its Joint Interagency Field Experimentation (JIFX) 21-4 event, August 23-27, with experimentation taking place at the NPS Field Lab at Camp Roberts and the recently added Sea Land Air Military Research Initiative...
16 September 2021 9/11: A Turning Point for the U.S. Navy Master-at-Arms VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Twenty years ago, the tragic events of September 11, 2001, changed the face of America forever. It also changed the military with greater emphasis on security, force protection and antiterrorism. The events of that day forever altered the course of the U.S. Navy's...
14 September 2021 Interagency “TEAMS” Effort to Tackle Federal Talent Management Challenges MONTEREY, Calif. - The federal government has a problem. More than half of its defense acquisition employees are currently within 10 years of retirement age, according to a 2019 Navy report … This means there needs to be a massive knowledge shift to the rest of the workforce fast...
13 September 2021 Last of Doolittle Raiders Memorialized Remembered as a man who faithfully served his country and was a devoted father and a man of faith, Lt. Col. Richard "Dick" Cole, the last of the Doolittle Raiders, was honored and posthumously promoted to the rank of colonel during a Sept. 7 ceremony at the Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston...
11 September 2021 Son Carries on Father’s 9/11 Legacy Aboard USS New York (LPD 21) NORFOLK, Va. The asymmetrical steel slab with its crimson and blue background looms over USS New York’s (LPD 21) amphibious well deck. Like the city it came from, it is a visual presence impossible to ignore. Its creator, Richard Othmer, meant it to be so. With help from several others, the retired...
10 September 2021 Lessons, virtues of 9/11 reflected in RTC values and training Sharing the lessons of 9/11 – honoring the lives of those lost and the courage and bravery of the first responders who tirelessly worked to save lives – is a critical part of training at Recruit Training Command. Learning about the resilience and fortitude shown by Americans allows future Sailors to...
10 September 2021 NPS Honors Victims, First Responders, Service Members at 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony Students, faculty and staff at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) honored the nearly 3,000 lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, and the continued commitment of first responders and service members in the 20 years that have followed, during a reverent and uplifting ceremony, Sept. 10, in front of the...
10 September 2021 Navy Establishes New Medal to Honor Fallen Civilians WASHINGTON – Department of the Navy (DON) civilian employees who are killed or sustain serious injury through considerable personal sacrifice in the performance of their duties are now eligible to receive the Angela M. Houtz Medal for Fallen Civilians...