Acting Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jim Kilby met with Chief of Staff of the Spanish Navy Admiral Antonio Piñeiro Sánchez for a formal bilateral engagement during the Sea-Air-Space 2025 maritime exposition in National Harbor, Maryland, today. ...

MANAMA Bahrain – The Egyptian Navy assumed command of the Combined Maritime Forces’ (CMF) Combined Task Force (CTF) 153 from the Royal Australian Navy at a ceremony held aboard Naval Support Activity Bahrain, April 9...

NAVAL BASE GUAM – The submarine tender USS Emory S. Land (AS 39) returned to its homeport in Apra Harbor, Guam, April 9th, 2025. Emory S. Land’s arrival marked the completion of its expeditionary submarine tender deployment, which began May 17th, 2024...

SAN DIEGO – Professor Laura Padilla at California Western Law School in Downtown San Diego brought her Land Use Law class to tour U.S. Navy Building 750 and to learn about Navy Real Estate and Land Use, April 1st in San Diego...

Rear Admiral Thomas Donovan is a native of Portsmouth, Virginia. He graduated the United States Naval Academy in 1996 and earned a Master’s in Defense Analysis from the Naval Post Graduate School. He began his career as a SEAL after completing Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training class 208 in...