16 March 2017 Chicago Bulls Continue Partnership with Navy For an eighth consecutive year, the NBA's Chicago Bulls are continuing a partnership with the United States Navy by sponsoring a recruit division at Recruit Training Command (RTC), the Navy's only boot camp, onboard Naval Station Great Lakes...
16 March 2017 Oman, US Speak a Common Language: Tactics Launched ashore from amphibious transport dock USS Somerset (LPD 25) off the coast of Oman, more than 250 U.S. Marines of the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group/11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) participated in Exercise Sea Soldier, Feb. 19-March 2...
16 March 2017 Ike Gets Fit With the Physical Fitness Assessment (PFA) approaching in May, Sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike) are working diligently to ensure they are up to the Navy's standards...
16 March 2017 USS Freedom Successful Replacement of Main Propulsion Diesel Engine Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC) worked with General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (NASSCO) and Bath Iron Works (BIW) to successfully remove and replace the No. 2 main propulsion diesel engine on littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1)...
16 March 2017 Public Health Center Attends Subs in Space Workshop Staff members of the Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC) participated in the Subs in Space II Workshop at the NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, and the White Sands Test Facility (WSTF), Las Cruces, New Mexico, Feb. 27-March 3...
16 March 2017 BMU-1 Beach Party Team Delta Continues to Prepare for Deployment Beach Party Team (BPT) Delta continues to push through work-ups as they are next to deploy for Beachmaster Unit (BMU) 1...
16 March 2017 Crowdsourced Collaboration: ONR Seeks Players for Futuristic Online Wargame On March 27, the Office of Naval Research will sponsor the launch of a multiplayer online wargame, hoping to recruit a community of over 1,000 players to collaborate on solving real-world problems facing the U.S. Navy. Interested players can enroll at https://mmowgli.nps.edu/singularity/signup...
16 March 2017 Makin Island Earns Battle 'E' Amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) received the 2016 Battle Effectiveness Award (Battle "E"), March 14, marking the second time the ship received the honor...
16 March 2017 Honoring a NAVFAC Hawaii Employee's Lifetime of Achievement Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Pacific Commander Rear Adm. John Korka presented NAVFAC's 2017 Peggy B. Craig Lifetime Achievement Award to Irwin Komoda, NAVFAC Hawaii maintenance superintendent, March 4, at the 75th Seabee Anniversary Ball held at the Hale Koa Hotel, Waikiki...
15 March 2017 Symposium Focuses on Developing Supply Corps Officers Navy Supply Corps officers from throughout the Pacific Northwest gathered at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor March 10 for a day of mentoring and professional development at the 2017 Northwest Junior Officer Training Symposium (JOTS)...