14 August 2015 Expecting the Unexpected The Damage Control Training Team aboard the Whidbey Island-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Rushmore (LSD 47) conducted chemical, biological, radiological (CBR) training for the ship's two repair locker teams Aug. 12...
14 August 2015 Chaplain Seuss Catholic Chaplain Lt. Luke R. Dundon, from Chantilly, Virginia, had conducted masses to hundreds and even thousands of people before reporting to the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) over a year ago...
14 August 2015 Makin Island Embodies the "Gung Ho" Spirit of its Namesake The term "Gung Ho," a Chinese expression meaning "working together," was adopted by Marine Lt. Col. Evans F. Carlson, as the slogan of his Marine Raiders...
14 August 2015 USS Makin Island Reaches 50 Percent Milestone The crew of the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) reached the 50 percent completion marker ahead of schedule for the Chief of Naval Operation's phased maintenance availability (PMA) at its homeport of Naval Base San Diego...
14 August 2015 USS Donald Cook Visits Theoule-sur-Mer, France The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) arrived in Theoule-sur-Mer, France, for a scheduled port visit Aug. 13, 2015...
14 August 2015 NAVFAC Far East Completes Futenma Air Traffic Control Tower Facilities Engineering and Acquisition Division Camp Butler completed repairs and upgrades to the air traffic control tower at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan Aug. 15...
14 August 2015 HM 'A' School Teams With VFW to Honor 'Medal of Honor' Recipient Sailors from Navy Medicine Training Support Center (NMTSC) at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston (JBSA-FSH) joined local veterans, Aug. 13, for a graveside memorial service honoring Hospitalman John E. "Jackie" Kilmer, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor...
14 August 2015 Rushmore Sailors, Marines Complete Successful VERTREP Sailors and Marines aboard the Whidbey Island-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Rushmore (LSD 47) conducted a vertical replenishment (VERTREP) at-sea, Aug. 11, receiving 18 pallets of supplies from fleet replenishment oiler USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201)...
14 August 2015 A Corpsman to Call On There are more than 300 Sailors aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93). All play an important role in accomplishing the ship's mission, and many of those Sailors perform at a level higher than their current pay-grade...
14 August 2015 Explosive Safety Upgrades Streamline Global Fleet Operations NAVSEA's Naval Ordnance Safety & Security Activity (NOSSA) is now upgrading and expanding strategic munitions facilities around the world to reduce sail times to safe havens for Navy vessels and to provide warfighters with additional options for reloading ordnance and repairing ships...