09 November 2018 A Helping Hand Back Home Eighteen years ago, a young man came to America. But, for a while, he didn't know if he would ever make it to Virginia, the place his parents called home after leaving Peru. For Chief Hospital Corpsman Manuel Aponte-Blanco, this was his reality...
09 November 2018 USS Oklahoma City Changes Command Cmdr. Steve Lawrence relieved Cmdr. Thomas P. O'Donnell as commanding officer of Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Oklahoma City (SSN 723) in a time-honored change of command ceremony at Naval Base Guam, Nov. 9...
08 November 2018 Transnational Crime Unit Many of those drugs come from overseas. According to the United Nations, nearly 80 percent of the world's heroin is exported from Afghanistan. The majority is transported to the coast of Pakistan and then loaded onto maritime vessels, destined for East African countries and, eventually, the United...
08 November 2018 Air Boss: Spouses Critical to Aviation Readiness in Era of Dynamic Force Employment Vice Adm. DeWolfe H. Miller III told Naval Aviation's senior enlisted leadership and their spouses the importance of their role in communicating to Sailors the changes in deployment cycles at the Naval Aviation Enterprise Command Master Chief (CMC)/Senior Enlisted...
08 November 2018 Guam Son Killed During World War II Comes Home The solemnity of Taps and smoke from the rifle volley filled the air as Steward Mate 1st Class Ignacio Camacho Farfan's casket was lowered into the ground to his final resting place at the Guam Veterans Cemetery in Piti Nov. 8...
08 November 2018 USS William P. Lawrence hosts MLB players The guided-missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110) hosted seven Major League Baseball players and their families Nov. 4 in support of United Through Reading...
08 November 2018 Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit 202 Helps Set Stage at Camp Frigaard Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit 202 (CBMU 202) expected to gain valuable training during a simple role during Exercise Trident Juncture 2018...
08 November 2018 IDC from 22 NCR Leads Training with Navy Corpsman, Norwegians Chief Hospital Corpsman Michael Winkle, TWENTY SECOND Naval Construction Regiment's (22 NCR) Senior Medical Department Representative has led the way for medical support on Camp Frigaard, Norway during Exercise Trident Juncture 18...
08 November 2018 Naval Hospital Jacksonville Kicks-Off Annual S2M2 Mentoring Program at Darnell-Cookman School of the Medical Arts Naval Hospital Jacksonville kicked off its 2018-2019 Science, Service, Medicine and Mentoring (S2M2) program on Nov. 7 at Darnell-Cookman School of the Medical Arts...
08 November 2018 NETC Employee Earns Meritorious Civilian Service Award for Sailor 2025 RRL Contributions Rear Adm. Kyle Cozad, commander of Naval Education and Training Command (NETC), presented Robert Monette with the Department of the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Award, during an all-hands call with NETC's Virginia Beach staff Nov. 6...