16 December 2021 Remote Fueling: Increasing Time on Target WALLOPS ISLAND, Va. - With frost on the ground, Sailors and Marines can see their breath creating cold clouds of condensation as they move around exiting their camouflaged tents on the edge of a remote airfield on Wallops Island, Virginia. In the distance, the sound of radio chatter and propeller...
15 December 2021 Navy Starts Administrative Separations for COVID-19 Vaccine Refusers WASHINGTON - The Navy issued guidance to commanders to move forward with administrative separations for service members continuing to refuse the COVID-19 vaccination, while leaving the door open for those who change their minds...
14 December 2021 Harry S. Truman Strike Group Transits the Strait of Gibraltar The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HSTCSG) partnered with the Royal Moroccan Navy’s Sigma-class frigate Allal Ben Abdallah (F 615) to transit the Strait of Gibraltar and enter the Mediterranean Sea during a regularly scheduled deployment in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations, Dec. 14,...
09 December 2021 Navy Announces the New Detailing Marketplace Assignment Policy The Navy will offer a wide range of incentives to Sailors as an enticement to stay at sea in critical operational billets. The key in this change is a new Detailing Marketplace Assignment Policy (DMAP), which will replace the existing Sea Shore Flow policy. Announced in NAVADMIN 280/21 on Dec. 9,...
08 December 2021 USFFC Holds Change of Command, Welcomes 43rd Commander NORFOLK, Va. - Adm. Christopher Grady was relieved by Adm. Daryl Caudle as commander, U.S. Fleet Forces (USFFC), in a ceremony aboard aircraft carrier USS George H. W. Bush (CVN 77) at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, Dec. 7...
03 December 2021 St. Louis Native Assumes Command of U.S. Navy LCS NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO - A St. Louis, native, Jaskowiak is the newest commanding officer of an Independence-variant littoral combat ship...
03 December 2021 Navy EW System Maintenance Course Enabled by MRTS 3D PENSACOLA, Fla. - Four years in the making, the AN/SLQ-32 (V)6 maintenance course using Multipurpose Reconfigurable Training System (MRTS) 3D trainers is up and running and has completed two pilot rounds of instruction...
01 December 2021 Construction Begins on Future USS Robert E. Simanek SAN DIEGO - Construction started on the fifth Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB), the future USS Robert E. Simanek (ESB 7), at General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Company (GD-NASSCO) in San Diego during a small ceremony, Dec. 1...
01 December 2021 Team Ships Public Affairs NORFOLK NAVAL SHIPYARD, Va. - The Navy accepted the delivery of the future USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) from shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division, Nov. 30...
01 December 2021 NPS Student-Professor Team Connects Research to Marines in the Field MONTEREY, Calif. - This past Summer, a Marine infantry officer and a cryptographer from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) journeyed to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, where I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF) was holding the Pacific Sentry 2021 field exercise. Their mission … to...