At age 41, feeling the need to make a drastic change in life, Cheryl Parker decided to turn to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth's Bariatric Clinic to begin the process for gastric bypass surgery...

A group of 18 Sailors from Branch Health Clinic (BHC) and Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi participated in First Receiver Operations Training (FROT) Oct. 14 and 15, to prepare them to respond to possible Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) threats...

Fleet Ocean Tug USNS Apache (T-ATF 172) departed Norfolk, Virginia, today to begin searching for wreckage from the missing U.S. flagged merchant vessel El Faro...

A foundry is a place that, if interpreted according to its original meaning, should invoke images of steel workers, blacksmiths, or even dwarves from a J.R.R. Tolkien novel, toiling away in molten hot spaces, creating and shaping metal from pre-conceived casts...

Emergencies are not convenient. Disasters are never accommodating...

Crews from the "Raptors" of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 71 provided two nearly back-to-back emergency medical transports for Sailors aboard USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110) during the ship's transit from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to San Diego, Oct. 14...

A birthday can be a celebration of life. The life of an organization, like the Navy, and its importance and meaning, may be difficult to fully appreciate with its rich tradition and history...

Picture this: A naval vessel is navigating the high seas thousands of nautical miles from land. Suddenly all navigation systems become inoperable. What happens next? What does this mean?...

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus recently launched an innovation initiative that focuses on the importance of delivering new ideas to the fleet's end-users and he needs your help...

Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) Mechanical Engineer Bill Porter and NSWC PCD Physicist Dan Flisek partnered with local academia to present a Sea Perch seminar to Northwest Florida's teachers, Sept. 30...