23 September 2015 Annapolis Mayor Gets Underway with USNA Midshipmen Michael J. Pantelides, the mayor of Annapolis, received a crash course in seamanship and navigation during a visit to the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA), Sept. 22...
02 September 2015 Midshipmen Receive Firsthand Training At-Sea Twelve U.S. midshipmen learned what it takes to operate at-sea aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG 62), July 22 to Aug. 12...
18 August 2015 Joint Mission Almost Complete on Saipan Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) and federal officials announced that the Department of Defense disaster relief mission on Saipan is coming to a close...
17 August 2015 America Navigates through PSA Navigating Navy ships in and out of port can be tricky business. Junior officers (JO) assigned to amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) are learning to overcome the difficulties of navigating the Navy's newest amphibious assault ship...
13 August 2015 USS Essex Conducts Strait of Hormuz Transit The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) transited the Strait of Hormuz and entered the Arabian Gulf Aug. 6...
10 August 2015 USS George Washington Has Record Breaking Fueling-at-Sea The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) conducted a record breaking fueling-at-sea (FAS) with the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Chafee (DDG 90) July 31...
05 August 2015 Plebes Near Completion of Summer Training U.S. Naval Academy's plebes, or midshipmen fourth class (freshmen), are nearing the end of their six-week, boot camp style training program, Plebe Summer...
30 July 2015 Seabees Receive Tactical Field Training U.S. Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 trained 35 Seabees on practical and leadership skills at the Tactical Unit Leader Course (TULC) at Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) and Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, July 7-17...
29 July 2015 Midshipmen Complete Mountain Warfare Training More than 200 Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) and U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) midshipmen felt a burn after hiking up one of the many elevated paths in the Sierra Nevada mountain range here at the U.S. Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC) here, July 13...
28 July 2015 Central, South America Partners Gather for PANAMAX More than 75 military personnel, including 54 members of partner-nation navies, assembled July 27 on Naval Station Mayport for PANAMAX 2015, an exercise aimed at developing strong working relationships between multinational forces to ensure the defense of the Panama Canal...