20 July 2015 USS Ross Completes Forward Deployed Patrol, Returns to Rota USS Ross (DDG 71) returned to Naval Station Rota, July 20, after completing its second forward deployed patrol in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations...
20 July 2015 USS Kauffman, U.S. Coast Guard Team Interdicts Narcotics With the U.S. Coast Guard, USS Kauffman (FFG 59) interdicted 528 kg of cocaine, worth an estimated wholesale value of approximately $176-million, and detained four crewmembers of a suspected narcotic-trafficking vessel in international waters of the Eastern Pacific, June...
20 July 2015 Science and Technology Help Navy Prepare for Future Arctic Operations On July 14, Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. Mat Winter was the Navy keynote speaker at the Sixth Symposium on the Impacts of an Ice-Diminishing Arctic on Maritime and Naval Operations...
20 July 2015 Navy Gold Star Program Comes to Oceana The unthinkable happens. Sailors lose their lives. Family members must pick up the pieces, then try to move on. They may not know it, but they are not alone. The Navy started the Gold Star Program to provide long-term support to surviving families of Sailors who pass while on active duty...
20 July 2015 USNS Spearhead Arrives in Honduras USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1), operated by the Military Sealift Command, arrived in Honduras, for its first mission stop during Southern Partnership Station-Joint High Speed Vessel 2015 (SPS-JHSV 15), July 11...
20 July 2015 In Competition for Water Supremacy, RoboBoats Rule the Waves On July 7-12, 16 teams-from the United States and as far away as Indonesia, Taiwan and South Korea-hit the water with custom-built autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) at the eighth annual RoboBoat Competition, held in Virginia Beach, Virginia...
20 July 2015 Training Support Center San Diego Changes Leadership In a traditional observance in front of a gathering of Sailors and civilian staff, Training Support Center (TSC) San Diego held a change of command ceremony, July 7...
20 July 2015 CSG-4 Kicks Off COMPTUEX for Kearsarge ARG, 26th MEU Propellers beat through the air on the flight deck aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) as Marines embark and Sailors coordinate movement with others ships along the seascape...
20 July 2015 Carrier Air Wing 5, Air Force specialists Conduct CSAR Training with RAAF Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, embarked aboard USS George Washington (CVN 73), the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and U.S. Air Force survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists participated in a combat search and rescue (CSAR) training exercise...
20 July 2015 George Washington Carrier Strike Group Strengthens Alliance with Australia, New Zealand during Talisman Sabre The George Washington Carrier Strike Group (GWCSG) concluded its participation in exercise Talisman Sabre 2015 (TS15), July 18...