06 June 2022 Joint and coalition warfighters test tactical expertise during Navy FST-J exercise HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. - Airmen from the 505th Combat Training Squadron and 926th Operations Group, Detachment 1, Hurlburt Field, Florida, supported the U.S. Navy Fleet Synthetic Training-Joint exercise, or FST-J...
24 May 2022 Vice Chief of Naval Operations Talks “Get Real, Get Better” During Latest SGL at NPS MONTEREY, Calif. - Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. William Lescher spoke to Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) students, faculty and staff about the Navy’s “Get Real, Get Better” initiative and how the Navy plans to stay ahead in today’s era of strategic competition during the latest Secretary of...
17 May 2022 NPS Professor Takes a Deep Dive Into Elected Autocrats Russia’s invasion of Ukraine left many Western analysts confounded. From a foreign policy perspective, it simply did not make any sense. Even if its “special military operation” proved fully successful, Russia still had more to lose than gain: NATO would draw closer to its borders, the West would...
16 May 2022 New EFMP liaison dedicated to Navy personnel in South Texas For military families with special needs, the Department of Defense Exceptional Family Member Program provides support and resources to help members and their families thrive in military life. At Joint Base San Antonio, EFMP programs are available to all branches of the military, but an additional...
12 May 2022 Culture, Partnerships Take Center Stage with Return of International Day MONTEREY, Calif. - Following two agonizing years of wrestling with the pandemic and its varied restrictions, the return to a ‘new normal’ has opened possibilities for finally coming together as a community. The Naval Postgraduate School’s (NPS) international students and their families, eager to...
10 May 2022 Partnerships Support Science, Research Exchange Between NPS, Norway MONTEREY, Calif. - Through the Department of Defense’s Engineer and Scientist Exchange Program, Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) Permanent Military Professor (PMP) U.S. Navy Cmdr. Thor Martinsen worked with respected cryptography expert and researcher Dr. Tron Omland of Norway’s National Security...
29 April 2022 Profiles in Professionalism: Senior Chief Operations Specialist Jason Kiritschenko MINNEAPOLIS - A young chef decided to take a leap out of the frying pan and into the fire in 1997. From a small kitchen in the town of Maplewood, Minnesota to a Norfolk, Virginia-based Nimitz class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier...
02 April 2022 U.S., Iceland Kick Off Exercise Northern Viking 2022 U.S. Sailors and Marines joined multiple Allied Nations in kicking off U.S. Sixth Fleet’s Exercise Northern Viking 2022 (NV22) in Keflavik, Iceland, April 2, 2022...
01 April 2022 U.S. Sixth Fleet Establishes Naval Amphibious Forces Europe Supporting Fully Integrated Navy-Marine Operations and Experimentation U.S. Sixth Fleet stood up Task Force 61 Naval Amphibious Forces Europe/ 2d Marine Division (TF-61/2) to synchronize command and control of deployed Navy and Marine Corps amphibious forces and advance the integrated Marine Corps capability in the Sixth Fleet area of operations (AOO) on March 16,...
29 March 2022 Fleet Readiness Center Southeast announces 2021 Mentors of the Year Fleet Readiness Center Southeast (FRCSE) recently announced their 2021 Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) National Mentor of the Year Award winner as well as the recipients for the FRCSE Dora Quinlan Mentor Award...