31 July 2024 Operation Ice Camp Yields Treasure Trove of Arctic Data for NPS Students, Faculty MONTEREY, Calif. — Early this year, inside the Arctic Circle – thousands of miles from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) campus in Monterey – a small team of students and faculty undertook a critical scientific research expedition, working with the Undersea Warfighting...
30 July 2024 Task Force 59 Holds Change of Command Ceremony MANAMA, Bahrain — U.S. Naval Forces Central Command’s Task Force (TF) 59 welcomed a new commander during a change of command ceremony aboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain, July 30...
30 July 2024 Navy’s 70+ acre Old Town Campus Revitalization Moves Forward SAN DIEGO — The U.S. Navy’s proposal to revitalize the 70.3-acre Naval Base Point Loma Old Town Campus to provide new facilities for Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) continues to move forward. The Navy is working closely with selected developer Manchester Financial...
30 July 2024 First Royal Australian Navy Sailors Graduate From Basic Enlisted Submarine School GROTON, Conn. – In a first for the AUKUS trilateral enhanced security partnership, a group of Royal Australian Navy (RAN) enlisted sailors has graduated from the United States Navy’s Basic Enlisted Submarine School (BESS). The sailors all graduated with distinction with one of them being...
30 July 2024 USS Wasp Celebrates 35th Birthday MEDITERRANEAN SEA – Sailors and Marines walk about passageways as the ship’s air conditioning system works overtime under the beating sun. These deckplates have supported the weight of servicemembers across the armed services through oceans and seas around the world...
29 July 2024 World War II Navy Veteran Receives Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Eighty-one years after serving as an Aviation Radioman-gunner in World War II, a 99-year-old Navy Veteran received a Distinguished Flying Cross and an Air Medal, July 25, 2024 at the California State Capitol Building in Sacramento...
29 July 2024 MAKO Global 2024 Enhances Warfighting Readiness for Reserve Sailors NORFOLK, Va. — Reserve Sailors from across the U.S. gathered for the first MAKO Global 2024, an operational level of war (OLW) exercise featuring a Maritime Operations Center (MOC) training scenario simultaneously run in three locations, coast to coast. The introduction of MAKO Global...
29 July 2024 Commander, Task Force 68 trains with Allies in Romania, Bulgaria NAPLE, Italy — U.S. Navy Sailors assigned to Commander, Task Force (CTF) 68 and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) Eight, Platoon 801 participated in two exercises alongside multiple Allies in Romania and Bulgaria, June 10-14 and June 17-21, 2024, respectively...
29 July 2024 U.S. Intends to Reconstitute U.S. Forces Japan as Joint Forces Headquarters Through a phased approach, the U.S. plans to convert U.S. Forces Japan into a joint force headquarters which will report to the commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III said...
26 July 2024 U.S. Navy to Christen Guided-Missile Destroyer Future USS Patrick Gallagher The Navy will christen the future USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG 127), during an 11:00 EST ceremony Saturday, July 27, in Bath, Maine.The Honorable Sean Fleming, Ireland’s Minister of State for the Department of Foreign Affairs (International Development and Diaspora), will deliver the principal