27 October 2023 NIWC Pacific: Its Inevitability, Legacy, and Future SAN DIEGO — Usually, news stories from Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific tell about a person, a team, a breakthrough, or a vision. This one is different: it’s about thousands of people, thousands of breakthroughs, countless visions, and how each moved through time and space...
17 February 2023 The Hospital Corpsmen of Iwo Jima: Stories of Valor and Sacrifice FALLS CHURCH, Va. - At 0900 on February 19th, 1945, the first assault waves from the 4th and 5th Marine Divisions hit the beaches of Iwo Jima. Embedded within these units were corpsmen like Pharmacist’s Mate Second Class Stanley Dabrowski, of New Britain, Conn., who remembered the...
17 November 2022 A History in Photos: Navy SSP Celebrates 67 Years of Sea-Based Strategic Deterrence WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy’s Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) released several historic photos to commemorate the organization’s 67th birthday Thursday...
14 February 2022 The Taming of the (Elephant) Shrew: The Story of Navy Medicine’s “Cairo to Capetown” Expedition of 1948 FALLS CHURCH, Va. - On February 17, 1948, a Navy medical team embarked on a historic journey across the African Continent. Over a period of nine months they travelled in a caravan from Port Said, Egypt to Capetown, South Africa while collecting thousands of rare specimens, providing medical care to...