17 August 2023 Farewell, FLIP! Renowned Navy-Owned Research Platform Retired after 60 Years of Service ARLINGTON, Va. -- Built in 1962 with funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), FLIP helped generations of scientists and oceanographers better understand the mysteries of the sea, including internal waves, air-sea interaction and long-range sound propagation. Sadly, age and exorbitant...
17 August 2023 IWTC Corry Station Alumni One of Navy’s Newest Aerial Vehicle Operators PENSACOLA, Fla. -- Warrant Officer 1 Thomas Forsythe, an Information Warfare Training Command (IWTC) Corry Station alumni, was among the first to be “winged” as an Aerial Vehicle Operator (AVO) for the MQ-25 Stingray and earn the warrant officer designator 7371, at the Naval Aviation...
17 August 2023 USS Mount Whitney, U.S. Sixth Fleet support LSE23 GAETA, Italy -- For the past two weeks, the Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) and embarked Sixth Fleet staff conducted operations in the Mediterranean Sea while participating in Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2023...
17 August 2023 Blue Ridge Returns to Yokosuka, Concludes Summer Patrol YOKOSUKA, Japan -- U.S. 7th Fleet flagship, USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19) returned to Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Aug. 17, after a patrol in the Indo-Pacific region...