It all started in 1943 when the Flight Test Group, located at NAS Anacostia, transferred to the newly established NAS Patuxent River.The Test Pilot School evolved from an urgent necessity recognized early on by Cmdr. Charles Thomas "Tom" Booth, who got the ball rolling in 1944 after Cmdr. Sydney S...

The mine countermeasure ship USS Chief (MCM 14) is 224 feet long and 39 feet wide with a crew of 94 Sailors. The ship may seem small compared to other U.S. Navy vessels...

Chief of Naval Personnel's (CNP) video blog, Weekly Wire Rundown (WWR), is now available for download, April 13...

Chief Cryptologic Technician (Collection) Jeremy Crandall assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) was the guest speaker during a dining out event at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., March 27...

In April, personnel assigned to U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFF), are scheduled to complete the required Bystander Intervention to the Fleet training for fiscal year 2015...

The Navy's newest officer serving in a joint enlisted medical training program passed through Army and Navy sideboys to be commissioned by an Air Force brigadier general at a ceremony presided over by a Navy captain April 10 on board Joint Base San Antonio - Fort Sam Houston (JBSA-FSH)...

The United States Navy Memorial hosted the 24th annual Blessing of the Fleet ceremony at the memorial in Washington, April 11...

By combining resources in a joint initiative between Naval Medical Center Portsmouth and the 633rd Medical Group at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, more than $1.5 million of taxpayer money has been saved in less than a year...

As more than 700 recruits celebrated the end of eight weeks of training they were saluted by the Training Support Command (TSC) Great Lakes Commanding Officer during the Pass-In-Review graduation at Recruit Training Command (RTC) Great Lakes, April 10...

Rear Adm. George Ballance, commander, U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet, spoke to shipboard personnel who participated in a Destructive Weather Table Top Exercise (TTX) April 6 at Naval Station Mayport, in preparation for the 2015 Hurrex-Citadel Gale (CG) training exercise...