14 May 2020 Navy Exchange Service Command Provides Over Half Million Cloth Face Masks Since early April, NEXCOM has delivered just over 550,000 cloth face coverings to the Fleet. Utilizing existing vendor relationships, NEXCOM was able to procure and deliver the first 100,000 face coverings within one week of the NAVADMIN 100/20 release...
14 May 2020 USS Donald Cook Applies Lessons for Second Trip to Arctic The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile Aegis destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) recently concluded operations in the Barents Sea as part of a second mission above the Arctic Circle, May 11, 2020...
14 May 2020 VAW-117 Carrier Qualifies on Ford, Transitions to E-2D Advanced Hawkeye The Navy's newest and most technologically-advanced aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), contributed to another milestone for naval aviation during carrier qualifications (CQ) for the "Wallbangers" of Airborne Command and Control Squadron (VAW-117) May 12...
14 May 2020 Ford Commences Second Round of Carrier Qualifications USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the only carrier qualification (CQ) asset regularly available on the East Coast this year, commenced its second round of CQs for Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) pilots May 10, with a healthy and mission focused crew...
14 May 2020 Reservist Receives Prestigious Credential While Assigned to CNE-CNA/C6F Lt. Cmdr. Steven Castle, a reserve officer under active-duty orders to U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet, was one of seven internationally that have attained the inaugural certification of Certified Oncology Administrator (COA) in April 2020...
14 May 2020 USS Lassen, Embarked Coast Guard Team Recover Illegal Drugs in Caribbean The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82), with an embarked U.S. Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment team recovered more than 3,500 pounds of marijuana from smugglers May 2...
14 May 2020 Hospitality Workers Face New Challenges with Courage and Care Clad in blue uniform scrubs and facemasks, Angela Marziani and Francesca Ginechesi push a hospitality cart down the long, sunlit open-air corridors of the Navy Gateway Inns and Suites (NGIS) hotel, at Naval Support Activity Naples...
14 May 2020 Individual Ready Reserve Sailors Serve at Navy Medical Center Portsmouth Leadership across the NR Force and BUMED used the current COVID-19 climate to prove the feasibility of activating Individual Ready Reserve (IRR) Sailors to Navy Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) in direct response to special authorities granted by the COVID-19 pandemic...
14 May 2020 Senior Enlisted Academy Achieves Mission Success through Virtual Training during COVID-19 The Senior Enlisted Academy (SEA) transitioned from an in-residence (IR) training atmosphere to an all-virtual training environment to accommodate the changes to policy due to Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19)...
13 May 2020 NSWC Corona to Anchor New 'Inland Empire Tech Bridge,' Creating Opportunities for Local Economy while Accelerating Innovation Assistant Secretary of the Navy (RDA) James Geurts announced establishment of the new Inland Empire Tech Bridge in a virtual press conference May 12...