13 May 2024 WASP ARG and 24th MEU Complete Joint Force’s Most Complex Training Atlantic Ocean – The Wasp Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and embarked 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) (WSP ARG-24th MEU) completed Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX), May 12, 2024. The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) completed their COMPTUEX alongside...
12 May 2024 Cole: Well Trained, and Ready for Tasking ATLANTIC OCEAN – The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) completed composite training unit exercise (COMPTUEX), May 7. The ship completed much of their integrated naval training with the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) – 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, who...
12 May 2024 Advancing Expeditionary Medical Care, One Team at a Time ATLANTIC OCEAN - Amphibious Ready Groups (ARG) and embarked Marine Expeditionary Units (MEU) have long been ready to care for those in need, whether helping Sailors and Marines who are wounded, ill, or injured; or supporting humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. ...
12 May 2024 Vice Adm. Doug Perry, commander, U.S. Second Fleet and Joint Force Command Norfolk, embarked the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) May 7, 2024. ATLANTIC OCEAN – Vice Adm. Doug Perry, commander, U.S. Second Fleet and Joint Force Command Norfolk, embarked the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) May 7, 2024...
10 May 2024 NRL Selected to Lead Critical Science Mission on Wildfires and Smoke NLR meteorologist, David A. Peterson, Ph.D., has been selected by NASA to lead the PYRocumulonimbus (pyroCb) EXperiment (PYREX) -- a large airborne-based field campaign aimed at studying the role that pyroCb activity plays in the warming climate system and understanding its physical links to extreme...
09 May 2024 NRL Selected to Lead Critical Science Mission on Wildfires and Smoke WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory meteorologist, David A. Peterson, Ph.D., has been selected by NASA to lead the PYRocumulonimbus (pyroCb) EXperiment (PYREX) -- a large airborne-based field campaign aimed at studying the role that pyroCb activity plays in the warming climate system and...
06 May 2024 USS Hershel “Woody” Williams arrives in Libreville, Gabon to commence Exercise Obangame Express 2024 LIBREVILLE, Gabon - The Gold military crew (MILCREW) of the Lewis B. Puller-class expeditionary sea base USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) and the ship’s Military Sealift Command Civilian Mariners (CIVMARs) arrived in Libreville, Gabon for a scheduled port visit to begin the...
03 May 2024 Carrier Strike Group 12 Holds Change of Command Ceremony NORFOLK, Va. — Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 12 held a change of command ceremony at the Pennsylvania House on Naval Station Norfolk, May 3, 2024...
03 May 2024 NSA Souda Bay Welcomes USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) SOUDA BAY, Greece - Sailors assigned to Naval Support Activity Souda Bay moored the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (IKE) along with embarked staff from the Carrier Strike Group 2 and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107) in Souda Bay,...
26 April 2024 IKE Carrier Strike Group Arrives in the Eastern Mediterranean ARABIAN SEA - The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKECSG) arrived in the Eastern Mediterranean while on a pre-announced Department of Defense deployment, April 26...