22 August 2018 Hawaii-based Ships Sortie ahead of Hurricane Lane Rear Adm. Brian Fort, commander, Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific, announced that U.S. Navy ships and submarines based in Hawaii not currently undergoing maintenance availabilities have begun to sortie as Hurricane Lane travels toward the Hawaiian Islands...
22 August 2018 USNS Comfort to Support Humanitarian Mission in Latin America USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) will deploy to Central America and South America in late September to begin a two-month humanitarian mission with stops in Colombia and the region...
22 August 2018 U.S. 2nd Fleet Releases New Crest and Motto U.S. 2nd Fleet revealed a new crest and motto, designed to represent the fleet's new mission, Aug. 22, prior to the establishment ceremony on Aug. 24 in Norfolk, Virginia...
22 August 2018 Navy Region Northwest Installations Receive 2018 SECNAV Energy Excellence Awards Multiple installations around Navy Region Northwest were notified by official U.S. Navy message traffic as recipients of the Secretary of the Navy's Energy Excellence Award, Aug. 2...
22 August 2018 Goggins Assumes Command as Program Executive Officer for Submarines Rear Adm. David A. Goggins relieved Rear Adm. Michael E. Jabaley as Program Executive Officer (PEO) for Submarines during a change of office ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard Aug. 17...
22 August 2018 Kearsarge Ship Store Sets Standard for Service Excellence The retail operations division (S-3) of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) was awarded "Best Ship's Store" for fiscal year 2017 during a ceremony on the ship's mess decks Aug. 20...
21 August 2018 Blue Angels to Rock Cleveland as Navy Week Comes to Town The "Rock and Roll Capital of the World" is scheduled to host members of the U.S. Navy during Cleveland Navy Week, Aug. 27 to Sept. 3, during a week-long series of community outreach events...
21 August 2018 SWOS Names NROTC Ship-handler of the Year Navy Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) Midshipman 1st Class James Olsen, from Portland, Oregon, was named the 2018 NROTC National Ship-handler of the Year at Surface Warfare Officers School (SWOS) on Naval Station Newport, Rhode Island, August 16...
20 August 2018 Search and Rescue Efforts Underway for Missing Sailor At approximately 7 a.m. local time, Aug. 19, after a Sailor assigned to USS Lake Erie (CG 70) failed to report for duty, the ship conducted man overboard procedures while operating in the eastern Pacific Ocean with the John C. Stennis Carrier Group Strike Group (JCS CSG)...
19 August 2018 13th MEU Marine Lost at Sea Identified The Marine at the center of the Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) search in the Mindanao Sea since August 9 has been identified as Cpl. Jonathan Currier...