15 July 2019 First to Learn, First to Operate USS Gerald R. Ford's advanced weapons elevators are a first-of-its-kind system operated via electromagnetic, linear synchronous motors...
12 July 2019 NAVSUP Strengthens Supplier Relationships for Greater Navy Readiness Navy readiness depends on robust and reliable supply chains. To be ready to fight tonight, the availability of vital spare and repair parts is critical - especially "top degrader" parts for aviation and maritime readiness...
12 July 2019 Corpsman Successfully Completes Trauma Training A U.S. Naval Hospital Guantanamo Bay (USNH GB) Corpsman successfully completed the Corpsman Trauma Training Program at Lovell Federal Health Care Center, recently. Hospital Corpsman Marvin Fowler was hand selected and nominated to attend the course based on his superior performance...
11 July 2019 Master-at-Arms Stay the Course in RCOH Master-at-arms assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) are in a unique situation while the ship undergoes refueling complex overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipyard...
11 July 2019 Why I Joined: For Love of Country As America's premier maritime fighting force, the United States Navy is tasked with defending freedom and democracy around the world. Some citizens of the United States have felt the call to serve their nation and now carry themselves as proud Sailors...
11 July 2019 Boot Camp Buddies Return to Recruit Training Command 50 Years Later Five friends filed out of a vehicle and into the "Golden Thirteen" in-processing building for new recruits at Recruit Training Command...
05 July 2019 A Marine's First Time Aboard a Deployed Naval Warship In 2017, two high school grads decided to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps to serve their country, travel the world, and within the twinkle of an eye, they were living their dreams, sailing across the equator aboard the dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry...
03 July 2019 Faces of Freedom: From the Barracks of Beirut On the morning of Oct. 23, 1983, a suicide bomber crashed a truck loaded with 2,000 pounds of explosives into U.S. Marine barracks at the Beirut International Airport in Lebanon. Mark McNeill, now an execution manager for NIWC Atlantic's Installation Planning and Execution department, was there...
03 July 2019 Blood Donor Center First in Navy to Provide Whole Blood Units on the Homefront The Armed Services Blood Program Blood Donor Center (ASPB BDC) has implemented policies and procedures necessary for the storage and distribution of Whole Blood Units in a stateside setting, a process which is the first within the Navy...
03 July 2019 Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune Partners with Lenoir Community College for National Stop the Bleed Day Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune partnered with Lenoir Community College for LCC's EMS Week 2019 event where Stop the Bleed Classes were taught to 91 people...