22 July 2019 Navy Encourages Participation in Sea Service Affinity Group Conferences Navy emphasized the importance of its longstanding relationships with the sea service affinity groups (SSAG) the Association of Naval Services Officers (ANSO), the National Naval Officers Association (NNOA) and the Sea Services Leadership Association (SSLA) in NAVADMIN 165/19, released July...
22 July 2019 Future USS Tripoli Completes Builder's Trials The Navy's newest America-class amphibious assault ship, the future USS Tripoli (LHA 7), successfully completed Builder's Trials June 19. The ship returned to the Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)-Ingalls Shipbuilding Division's shipyard following four days underway in the Gulf of Mexico...
22 July 2019 Future USS Oakland Launched The future USS Oakland (LCS 24) launched July 21 at Austal USA's ship manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama. This event marked thefirst time the ship floated in the water as it is prepared for delivery nextyear...
22 July 2019 IWTC San Diego Trains Sailors in Automated Digital Network Systems Information Warfare Training Command San Diego graduated nine students after the conclusion of an Automated Digital Network System (ADNS) mobile training team course (MTT) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, July 19.ADNS represents the backbone of the Navy's ability to exchange...
22 July 2019 Sailors, Guam Celebrate 75th Liberation Day More than 50 Sailors from Commander, Submarine Squadron Fifteen joined the local community and other branches of service to celebrate Guam's 75th Liberation Day with a parade, July 21...
22 July 2019 NMCB 5 Holds Change of Command Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5 held a change of command ceremony at Naval Base Ventura County Port Hueneme, California, July 12. Cmdr. Ryan Carey relieved Cmdr. Omarr Tobias as commanding officer of NMCB-5...
22 July 2019 Walking Blood Bank Gives Back The human body holds between nine to 12 pints of blood. Approximately 60 pints were donated to save the lives of two personnel in the middle of the night aboard the amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) due to an activation of the ship's Walking Blood Bank...
22 July 2019 Quality Assurance Team Helps Sailors Prepare for MAV While the material maintenance management (3M) team verifies the quality of completed maintenance using maintenance requirement cards (MRC), quality assurance (QA) turns to more in-depth technical manuals to thoroughly ensure the ship is maintained in a safe and operational condition...
22 July 2019 Interns Examine IT Systems at NAVSUP BSC Five Navy Supply Corps Business/Enterprise Supply Chain Management (BEM) interns took part in a three-day workshop, July 16-18, at Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Business Systems Center (BSC) in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania...
22 July 2019 Undersecretary of the Navy Visits Naval Support Activity Souda Bay Undersecretary of the Navy Thomas Modly stopped in Crete, Greece, July 19-20, and spent time with the Naval Support Activity Souda Bay team as part of his visit to the Mediterranean region...