HEBRIDES, United Kingdom - U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Thomas Ishee, commander of U.S. Sixth Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO), recently observed high-end integrated air and missile defense (IAMD) activity during the ongoing exercise Formidable Shield 2023, May 20...

Sailors aboard Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61), assigned to the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, and the UK worked together to conduct repairs that allowed the ship to maintain mission readiness, during a port visit in Liverpool, U.K., the week of May 25...

Pascagoula, MS – The keel for the future USS Pittsburgh (LPD 31), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, was ceremonially laid at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division, June 2.The ship is the fifth Navy vessel to be named for the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and...

Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (PACFLT), announced the 2023 Sailors of the Year (SOY) during a ceremony held June 1, 2023 aboard Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Operations Specialist 1st Class Matthew Yeager was selected as the Sea Sailor of the Year and Logistics Specialist 1st Class Putra Nagara...

PENSACOLA, Fla. – The Pensacola Navy community celebrated the 81st Battle of Midway Commemoration where retired Rear Adm. Samuel Cox, director of the Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC) served as the guest speaker at the National Naval Aviation Museum on Naval Aviation Station Pensacola,...

ROTA, Spain - Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG2) departed Naval Station Rota, Spain on Monday, May 29th, 2023 in anticipation of the start of Flotilla Exercise 2023 (FLOTEX-23) hosted by the Spanish Navy in the western Mediterranean Sea...

Today marks the start of Hurricane Season! NRL supports U.S. Navy military and humanitarian missions with global hurricane and typhoon information using the Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS®) since 1997. The latest version of the system called COAMPS-TC® provides...

Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) and The Walt Disney Company recently surprised thousands of sailors as well as other military service members with special advance screenings of Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3...

WASHINGTON NAVY YARD, D.C. - Earlier this year, the U.S. Navy implemented the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) issued public private venture (PPV) housing universal lease agreements, created to standardized armed forces PPV leases, across all Navy PPV housing. The new universal lease...

PENSACOLA, Fla. – Chief Navy Counselor Cameron Pritchett found himself sitting in the same seat his mother sat almost 20 years earlier while attending the Navy Counselor (Counselor) (NCC) Advancement Examination Readiness Review (AERR) in Pensacola, Florida, in May 2023...