17 May 2022 SECNAV, CNO visit USS George Washington NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Gilday traveled to Newport News, Va. today to meet with Sailors assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73)...
17 May 2022 ONR Global, Royal Air Force Partner in First Synthetic-Fueled Drone Flight LONDON - Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global and Royal Air Force (RAF) Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO) conducted the first-ever drone flight using synthetic kerosene in February...
17 May 2022 U.S. Navy in Middle East Seizes $39 Million in Drugs MANAMA, Bahrain – A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer seized 640 kilograms of methamphetamine worth $39 million from a fishing vessel while patrolling international waters in the Gulf of Oman, May 15-16...
16 May 2022 Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group conducts Training Underway with Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force PHILIPPINE SEA - Ships and aircraft from Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group (RRNCSG) concluded a week of at-sea bilateral training with a destroyer from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) May 17...
16 May 2022 LCS Successfully Completes First Land Attack Missile Exercise PACIFIC OCEAN – The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) class successfully launched sea-based missiles at a land-based target for the first time during a proof of concept exercise, May 12...
16 May 2022 USS Hershel “Woody” Williams BLUE MILCREW Begins Deployment The Blue military crew (MILCREW) of the USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB 4) and the ship’s Military Sealift Command Civilian Mariners (CIVMARs) departed Civitavecchia, Italy, to begin a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations, May 14, 2022...
16 May 2022 U.S., Estonia Kick Off Exercise Hedgehog 22 TALLINN, Estonia - Members of Task Force 61 Naval Amphibious Forces Europe/2d Marine Division (TF-61/2), operating under U.S. Sixth Fleet, joined their Estonian counterparts to kick off exercise Siil 22, also known in English as Exercise Hedgehog, in Tallinn, Estonia, May 16...
16 May 2022 Mare Aperto 22-1: U.S. Sixth Fleet trains alongside Italian and Allied navies Units and personnel from U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa / U.S. Sixth Fleet joined their Italian counterparts and other Allied navies in the Italian-led exercise Mare Aperto 22-1/Italian Minex 22 in the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas, May 15, 2022...
14 May 2022 USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. Commissions CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The Navy commissioned its newest Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG 121), May 14 in Charleston, South Carolina...
14 May 2022 USS Albany Returns to Norfolk NOROFLK, Va. - The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine USS Albany (SSN 753) returned to its homeport at Naval Station Norfolk after successfully completing a scheduled deployment, Saturday, May 14...