For Sailors with families, one of the best things about being in port is going home every day to spend time with the ones they love. And although the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) is in port, this is not the case for all of its crewmembers...

President Donald J. Trump proclaimed the month of April as the National Child Abuse Prevention Month...

Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) who are slated for security duty practice how to shoot the Beretta M9 and the M4 service rifle using a gun range simulator called the Professional Range Instruction Simulator (PRISim) on Naval Station Norfolk...

Learn how one Sailor chose her job in the Navy...

Mental wellness is as critical as physical health to mission readiness. A person's mental health can affect their emotions, thoughts and actions. Optimal mental health increases overall resilience to life's challenges...

When Boatswain's Mate 1st Class Francisco Carlos joined the Navy seven years ago, he didn't know how to swim...

"Stop being weak." Those were the words that rang through Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 3rd Class Timothy Justin Husted's head...

After three years of sea duty between USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and USS George Washington (CVN 73), one Sailor reflects on the past while navigating her new shore duty assignment...

For many Sailors aboard aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), being sent to a temporary assigned duty (TAD) is just part of the cycle of life in the Navy. Regardless if a Sailor has a rate or not, almost every person will, at some point in their career, experience a TAD of some sort...

shipboard Sailors and Marines. After the routine wake-up motions and a clean shave, service members head toward the galley to partake in the "most important" meal of the day. While Sailors are sleeping in their racks or at the barracks, culinary specialists had already been at work for hours...