NORFOLK, Va. - Rear Adm. Lore Aguayo relieved Rear Adm. Dean A. VanderLey as commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC), Atlantic, in Norfolk, Virginia July 22...

NORFOLK, Va. — As a U.S. Navy ship prepares to leave homeport, many Sailors say goodbye to loved ones on the pier. This is not an uncommon occurrence for Sailors, over the course of a 20-year-career; most Sailors have experienced the challenge of leaving loved ones behind on the shore as their ship...

MONTEREY, Calif. - On November 25, 2018, a Russian commercial cargo ship suddenly parked itself across the narrow Kerch Strait on the Crimea, blocking three Ukrainian Navy vessels sailing in international waters from reaching the port of Mariupol on the Sea of Azov. When they tried to turn back, the...

REYKJAVIK, Iceland - Over the last year and a half while the world has been struggling to cope with COVID-19, the U.S. Navy has remained operational and at-sea, eschewing liberty port calls in order to ensure the health and safety of Sailors to perform national security operations. Such a feat can...

SASEBO, Japan – The amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20) hosted a tour for National Defense Academy of Japan Midshipmen July 14, the first tour of a Sasebo-based ship by a non-U.S. military group since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic...

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. - Operating approximately 300 ships with 350,000 personnel as it provides a strategic deterrent over, under and on the world’s oceans, the U.S. Navy is a force to be reckoned with. But, with so much fire power and so many dedicated Warfighters on watch, there is an inevitable...

ODESA, Ukraine - Navy Reserve Maritime Partnership Program Detachment 513 led logistics support for Exercise Sea Breeze 2021, a multi-national maritime exercise held in the Black Sea and Ukraine and co-hosted by U.S. 6th Fleet and the Ukrainian Navy annually since 1997...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Subject matter experts from the Navy’s Medical, Training, Personnel and Chaplain communities, and the Navy’s Fleet and Family Support Program met at the NavalX facility in Alexandria, Va. July 14 and 15...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center (FLC) Jacksonville conducted a combined change of command and retirement ceremony July 16, on board Naval Air Station Jacksonville, wherein Capt. Jim Strauss relieved Capt. William H. Clarke as Commanding Officer...

MEDITERRANEAN SEA - While operating in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) assumed air defense commander for the United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group (UKCSG) in support of joint operations and interoperability training,...