02 March 2017 Essex Takes Home 5th Consecutive Retention Excellence Award Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) won the Retention Excellence Award for fiscal year 2016, its fifth consecutive year winning the award...
02 March 2017 Bataan Amphibious Ready Group Deploys More than 4,000 Sailors and Marines from the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24 MEU) departed from Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, Feb. 25 and March 1...
02 March 2017 NHRC Researcher Named Junior Officer of the Year for Navy Medicine Research Enterprise Lt. Cmdr. Brennan Cox, an aerospace experimental psychologist at Naval Health Research Center (NHRC), has been selected as the 2016 Navy Medicine Research Enterprise and Naval Health Research Center Junior Officer of the Year...
02 March 2017 Norfolk Naval Shipyard Makes Electrical Breaker Servicing Safer, More Efficient Norfolk Naval Shipyard's (NNSY) Rapid Prototype Lab (RPL) has developed a molded case breaker assembly test stand that creates a safer environment for electrical mechanics...
02 March 2017 Norfolk Shipyard Employee Innovates to Reduce Hearing Risk A Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY) employee's idea has cut the noise generated by a common piece of shipyard industrial equipment, reducing risk to his coworkers and potentially workers at other shipyards...
02 March 2017 CNO Essay Contest: How Do You Think History Can Help Us Today? "How can history inform our maritime strategy today?" Your answer to that question may be the basis for an entry in the Chief of Naval Operations 2017 Naval History Essay Contest, recently announced in NAVADMIN 024/17...
02 March 2017 Assistant Attorney General Visits NATTC The Department of Justice's Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division Tom Wheeler held a town hall meeting for more than 800 Naval Air Technical Training Center (NATTC) students and staff onboard Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, Feb. 28...
02 March 2017 Seaman Recruit Legumina Earns Military Excellence Award at RTC Seaman Recruit Jacob Legumina, Division 085, graduated as the top Sailor from Recruit Training Command earning the Military Excellence Award, March 3...
02 March 2017 Navy Culinary Arts Team to Compete for Prestigious Award Navy culinary specialists (CSs) from around the fleet participated in intense culinary training Jan. 17-March 1 to prepare for competition in the 42nd annual Fort Lee Military Culinary Arts Competitive Training Event (MCACTE), to take place March 3-9...
02 March 2017 US, Iraq, Pakistan Conduct VBSS Exercise The U.S. Coast Guard Patrol Force South West Asia (PATFORSWA) Maritime Engagement Team (MET) with Iraqi and Pakistani naval officers are conducting a multilateral visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) exercise at Naval Support Activity Bahrain, Feb. 26-March 9...