25 April 2018 VP-45 Begins Deployment to Support Counter-illicit Trafficking Operations The Pelicans of Patrol Squadron (VP) 45 began a six-month split-site deployment to the U.S. 4th and 7th Fleet areas of operation. VP-45 relieved the Mad Foxes of VP-5, both stationed at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida...
25 April 2018 SSC Atlantic Performs First CANES Refresh Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic Fleet Readiness Directorate Installation Office Atlantic (FIO) reached the last milestone of the production phase for the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) refresh aboard USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) April 17...
25 April 2018 SWOSU Great Lakes Holds Denim Day Event The normal uniform attire seen at Surface Warfare Officer School Unit (SWOSU) Great Lakes was changed on April 25 as staff observed Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month (SAAPM) by wearing denim jeans and teal shirts to raise public awareness about sexual violence...
25 April 2018 Navy Environmental Preventive Medicine Unit Provides Vector-Borne Disease Workshop for Navy Region Southwest The Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit Five (NEPMU-5) conducted a vector-borne disease workshop at Naval Base San Diego, April 24...
25 April 2018 Rota Environmental Specialist Wins SECNAV Award Timothy Uplinger, an environmental protection specialist assigned to Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Europe Africa and Southwest Asia (EURAFSWA) at Naval Station Rota, was selected as the 2017 SECNAV Environmental Award winner for environmental quality-individual recognition...
25 April 2018 Naval District Washington Hosts Workshop for 2018 HURREX/Citadel Gale Naval District Washington (NDW) hosted a workshop in preparation for the two-week natural disaster preparedness event, Hurricane Exercise/Citadel Gale 2018 (HURREX/CG 18), on the Washington Navy Yard, April 24...
25 April 2018 MCPON Holds All-Hands Call in Guam, Announces Laying the Keel Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Steven Giordano kicked off his tour of the Indo-Pacific region with a stop in Guam to meet with Sailors during an all-hands call at the U.S. Naval Base Guam theater, April 24...
25 April 2018 Essex ARG, 13th MEU Begin Integrated training Sailors from Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and Marines assigned to 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) commenced the ARG/MEU exercise (ARGMEUEX) off the coast of California, April 24...
25 April 2018 USNS Mercy arrives in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka U.S and partner nation service members participating in Pacific Partnership 2018 arrived in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka aboard the U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19), April 25...
25 April 2018 New U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Andorra Visits NAVSTA Rota Richard Buchan III, U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Spain and the Principality of Andorra, visited Naval Station Rota April 17 as part of a regional tour...