03 August 2020 Navy Reserve Support Staff Increased with New Enlisted Classification Codes In alignment with the Navy Reserve’s Ready to Win (R2W) strategy, five new Navy Enlisted Classification (NEC) codes have been recently implemented to better classify Reserve Management jobs...
03 August 2020 Naval Information Warfare Systems Command Names New Executive Director Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) welcomed John Pope as the command’s new executive director, August 3, 2020...
03 August 2020 USNS Newport Completes Integrated Sea Trials The U.S. Navy’s twelfth Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) vessel, USNS Newport (EPF 12), successfully competed Integrated Sea Trials, July 30...
03 August 2020 U.S. Navy Conducts Joint Operations with U.S. Air Force in the Black Sea The Arleigh Burke class, guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78), a P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) from Patrol Squadron VP-47, four F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 31st Fighter Wing, Aviano Air Base, Italy, KC-135 Stratotankers from the 100th Air Refueling Wing, Mildenhall,...
03 August 2020 USS Porter Departs the Black Sea The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) began its southbound transit from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, Aug. 3, 2020, after conducting maritime security operations in the region...
03 August 2020 Kitchener Assumes Command of Pacific Fleet Surface Force Vice Adm. Roy I. Kitchener relieved Vice Adm. Richard Brown as Commander, Naval Surface Forces (COMNAVSURFOR) and Commander, Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMNAVSURFPAC) during a change of command ceremony held at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, Aug. 3.Recommended for promotion to vice...
03 August 2020 Ceremony Frocks 101 Sailors to Next Rank at Southwest Regional Maintenance Center Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC) held a Frocking Ceremony on July 31 for 101 of its newly advanced Sailors...
01 August 2020 U.S. Warship Joins Partners for Multinational Group Sail The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) commenced a Multinational Group Sail alongside warships from Australia, Brunei, and Singapore on August 1, 2020.The USS Rafael Peralta joined alongside HMA Ships Stuart (FFH 153) and Sirus (O 266) of the...
31 July 2020 Naval Laboratory Researcher's Invention Allows to Study Nanoparticle Gases A research physicist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory invented a new method to create and optically measure gases with particles smaller than a wavelength of light...
31 July 2020 MARMC SST Advances OSD Grasp of COVID Risk Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC) participated in the Navywide Sentinel Surveillance Testing (SST) program July 29, with 50 asymptomatic Sailors and civilian employees volunteering to be tested for COVID-19...