24 September 2020 History Informs Memorial to Sailors Killed in USS Cole Attack Exactly one year after and with a promise to never forget, the U.S. Navy dedicated the USS Cole monument to honor and remember the 17 Sailors killed in the tragic bombing that took place to the Norfolk-based destroyer in Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000...
22 September 2020 Mindfulness With Murphy: A Novel Stress-Reduction Initiative Mindfulness with Murphy: A Novel Stress Reduction Initiativeby Lieutenant Jonathan W. Murphy, Medical Service Corps, USN At the start of spring, the coronavirus pandemic was in full swing. As the virus spread across the country, it forced adjustment to professional and personal lives to meet the new...
18 September 2020 Have You Heard? Industrial Noise and Hearing Conservation Course Returns The Naval Safety and Environmental Training Center (NAVSAFENVTRACEN) again offers its Industrial Noise and Hearing Conservation Program course beginning Oct. 6...
18 September 2020 HSC-22 Receives First MQ-8C Firescout Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 22 received their first MQ-8C Firescout on Sept. 15 aboard Naval Station Norfolk...
18 September 2020 Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Norfolk Supports Naval Academy The Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center (NAVSUP FLC) Norfolk Contracting Department awarded a $3.6 million contract to St. John’s College August 21, to provide for lodging for approximately 380 United States Naval Academy (USNA) midshipmen, allowing for additional midshipmen to...
18 September 2020 USS Winston S. Churchill Conducts Interoperability Operations with British Royal Navy The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) joined the British Royal Navy’s Offshore Patrol Vessel HMS Trent (P224) in the Eastern Mediterranean, Sept. 9, 2020...
17 September 2020 It’s All In the Name Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC) announced the official name change for all Coastal Riverine Forces to Maritime Expeditionary Security Forces (MESF) Thursday...
17 September 2020 VFA-87 Changes Commanders during Airborne Ceremony Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 87 conducted an aerial change of command ceremony, Sept. 17, to signify the time honored naval tradition of transferring the responsibilities of command from one commander to another...
17 September 2020 NATO’s New Command in the Atlantic Reaches Its First Operational Milestone NATO’s newest command, Joint Force Command Norfolk, has reached its initial operational capability (IOC) in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Sept. 17, 2020. In reaching IOC, the JFCNF commander has determined that the command is ready to take on initial tasking from NATO’s operational headquarters in...
14 September 2020 Destroyer Squadron TWO Holds Change of Command Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 2 held a change of command ceremony aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51), Sept. 11...