U.S. 6TH FLEET AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY - Lt. Agunbiade is a Nigerian-born, Navy Reserve Sailor who is serving as the exercise’s country lead. The following is an excerpt of a conversation about his experience visiting his home-country and the people that he met. This story has been edited...

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...

KARACHI, Pakistan - Members of U.S. Naval Forces Central Command (NAVCENT) donated $5,000 of equipment to a special needs school Feb. 15 after U.S. 5th Fleet completed its participation in a five-day Pakistan-led multinational naval exercise in the North Arabian Sea...

NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST, Fla. - Naval Air Station Key West security forces and first responders teamed up with Monroe County Sheriff’s Office and City of Key West Police Department for a joint-training exercise on Boca Chica Field Feb. 15, 2023...

DAHLGREN, Va. – Surface Combat Systems Training Command (SCSTC) recently announced their 2022 Junior Sailor of the Year (JSOY)...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Navy Expeditionary Combat Command (NECC) continues to demonstrate its commitment to the care and resiliency of its members across the force, by focusing on mental health and other critical care areas. The force uses the Recovery Care Management (RCM) program, which provides...

OAK HARBOR, Wash. - AWO2 Brooke Graham was one of the first 34 students to complete the Naval Studies Certificate, a naval-relevant education program offered as a part of every associate degree program with USNCC...

OTARU, Japan - Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54) forward deployed to Yokosuka, Japan concluded a visit to Otaru in the northern Japanese island prefecture of Hokkaido Feb. 10...

ATLANTIC OCEAN - Sailors assigned to the first-in-class aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) gathered to watch Super Bowl LVII in the ship’s hangar bay while underway in the Atlantic Ocean conducting carrier qualifications, Feb. 12, 2023...

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Naval Education and Training Command’s (NETC) Military Instructors of the Year (MIOY) were presented awards at the National Naval Aviation Museum aboard Naval Air Station Pensacola on Feb. 10, 2023...