ATLANTIC OCEAN - USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) conducted a conventional ammunition on-load, April 9, in support of workups and training for an upcoming deployment. Ford successfully on-loaded approximately 541,000 pounds of ordnance using both connected transfers and vertical lifts from the dry cargo...

The crews of the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Alaska (SSBN 732) were recently announced as the recipients of the 2021 U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) Omaha Trophy...

Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) community leaders spoke at the Navy League of the United States (NLUS) annual Sea-Air-Space (SAS) Expo, April 4-6, addressing an audience at the Navy Information Warfare (IW) pavilion.Rear Adm. John Okon, director, Warfare Integration Directorate, N2N6I, Office of...

NASSAU, The Bahamas - The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) conducted a scheduled port visit in Nassau, The Bahamas, April 3-7. The ship’s arrival marked the first time a U.S. Navy vessel has visited The Bahamas since the COVID-19 pandemic began...

Rear Adm. Dennis Velez relieved Rear Adm. Rick J. Cheeseman, Jr. as Commander, Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 10, George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group (GHWBCSG) during a ceremony aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) on board Naval Station Norfolk April 6, 2022.Civilian and military...

ATLANTIC OCEAN - USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) completed its Flight Deck Certification and Carrier Air Traffic Control Center certification on March 29...

NAVAL STATION MAYPORT, Fla. - The Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) returned to Mayport, Fla. April 2, following its first successful deployment to the U.S. 4th Fleet area of operations...

WILMINGTON, Delaware – President of the United States Joseph R. Biden, Jr., and First Lady Jill Biden, the ship sponsor, celebrated the commissioning of the Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Delaware (SSN 791) Saturday, April 2, in a ceremony in Wilmington, Delaware...

Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) released its annual Freedom of Navigation (FON) Report for Fiscal Year 2021. During the period from October 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021, U.S. forces operationally challenged 37 different excessive maritime claims made by 26 different claimants...

NORFOLK, Va. – A Navy E-2D Hawkeye assigned to an East Coast Airborne Command and Control Squadron (VAW) crashed in the vicinity of Wallops Island and Chincoteague, Va., March 30. One crew member has died and two have been injured...

NORFOLK, Va. - The sounds of rapid bells followed by the repeated phrase “Mass Casualty, Mass Casualty, Mass Casualty on the Flight Deck” rings through the passageways of USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), March 17, 2022. Ford’s crew spring into action. Each Sailor has a different responsibility, but they...

KINGS BAY, Ga. - It has been more than 12 years since women were authorized to serve aboard submarines. While women comprise nearly one-fourth of the Department of Defense’s total force, only a small fraction of women serve on submarines...

Maritime Expeditionary Security Squadron (MSRON) 4 and United States Coast Guard Cutter Razorbill, evaluated the Unmanned Diesel Greenough Advanced Rescue Craft (UD-GARC) in the Chesapeake Bay, Feb. 8, during Exercise Solid Curtain 2022.The joint team tested the technology during a simulated...

Two MH-60R Seahawk helicopters, assigned to the “Spartans” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 70, responded to a distress call from a downed civilian aircraft near the Palatka Municipal Airport on Monday, March 14, 2022.The two aircraft were conducting routine training operations when they...

U.S. NAVY ICE CAMP QUEENFISH – The U.S. Navy is concluding its Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2022 this week, wrapping up nearly three weeks of research and training on, above and below Arctic Ocean ice...

U.S. NAVY ICE CAMP QUEENFISH – The ice chunks drifting on Arctic waters are inhospitable and, for most people, inaccessible. As a result, gathering accurate information about the environment in this harsh – but important – region of the world is challenging for researchers...

NORFOLK, Va. - Elements of the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) with embarked 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) departed Naval Station Norfolk and Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, for a regularly scheduled deployment, March 16...

U.S. NAVY ICE CAMP QUEENFISH – The Hon. Meredith Berger, Performing the Duties of Under Secretary of the Navy, visited the U.S. Navy’s Ice Camp Queenfish, built on a sheet of Arctic ice floating 160 nautical miles offshore, and the Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS Illinois (SSN 786) on March...

Joining U.S. military forces at Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2022 are personnel from the Royal Canadian Air Force and Navy, as well as the United Kingdom Royal Navy.“Our ICEX 2022 team includes key contributors from the British and Canadian armed forces,” said Rear Adm. Richard Seif, commander of the U.S...

In an environment like this, the Navy’s meteorological specialists are the first line of defense between the vulnerable ice camp personnel and those dangerous conditions. At Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2022, the Navy has built Ice Camp Queenfish on a floe of Arctic ice approximately 175 nautical miles off...

Ice Camp Queenfish represents unprecedented advances in both speed of construction and expeditionary capability. with the ability to support more than 60 personnel, the camp is the forward operating base for Ice Exercise 2022, the latest installment of the Navy’s biennial exercise designed to...

U.S. NAVY ICE CAMP QUEENFISH – Commander, Submarine Forces (COMSUBFOR) officially kicked off Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2022 in the Arctic Ocean on Friday, March 4, after the building of Ice Camp Queenfish and arrival of two U.S. Navy fast attack submarines...

Family, friends, colleagues and shipmates gathered at Naval Station Norfolk to witness the time-honored tradition of a change of command ceremony coupled with a retirement ceremony...

A St. Louis, native, Jaskowiak is the newest commanding officer of an Independence-variant littoral combat ship...

Family, friends and shipmates gathered at the POW/MIA Park on Naval Support Activity (NSA) Hampton Roads in Norfolk, Virginia, to witness the pinning of 23 new chief petty officers from NSA tenant commands, Nov. 19...

Silverdale, Wa. -- Global Thunder 22 (GT22) concluded Nov. 10, after a week-long of command-post and field training that tested command, control and operational readiness.GT22 is an annual training exercise designed to train and assess joint operational readiness across all of U.S. Strategic...

MARINETTE, WIS. – The Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul (LCS 21) at the Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) shipyard Nov. 18...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Chesapeake Bay Detachment fire protection researcher John Farley received the 2020 Fire Protection Research Foundation Medal Award. The award was received in partnership with Gerard G. Back from Jensen Hughes Inc. for their work in evaluating the fire...

 After attending the Nov. 10 USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) change of command ceremony at Naval Station Mayport, the Honorable Rupert Soames, OBE, toured the ship at BAE shipyard in nearby Jacksonville, Fla.  The ceremony’s guest speaker, Soames is the destroyer’s sponsor and grandson of the...

 A commemoration ceremony marking the 21st anniversary of the bombing of USS Cole (DDG 67) was held this morning at the Cole Memorial aboard Naval Station Norfolk.With the ship unavailable and the crew unable to participate in person during the annual commemoration, the remembrance event was...

Always asking questions and a pain in the rear-end is how retired Fleet Master Chief Jon Thompson described Rick O’Rawe.But he wasn’t describing Rick O’Rawe, the U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) Fleet Master Chief now. He was describing Rick O’Rawe, the Navy recruit from 29 years ago...

Due to new best practices and protocols developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Fleet Forces Command Inspector General office plans to increase the number of command inspections conducted per year, starting in fiscal year 2022, in order to ensure mission and personnel readiness across the...

  The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) departed Naval Station Norfolk to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to Haiti in support of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAIDled mission, Aug. 17. The mission forms part of an...

Sailors assigned to the dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) hosted a mass casualty drill as part of Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2021 while pierside at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Aug. 14-15.The drill, which started with a simulated helicopter crash and resulting casualties, took...

It's a process, not a place. A Maritime Operation Center, or MOC, can come in many different forms, because what matters is the processes and planning taking place within them...

The Sailors of USS Cole (DDG 67) and USS Gravely (DDG 107) have been very busy in the Atlantic lately, supporting two major exercises and honing their skills in multiple areas of maritime operations and tactics...

U.S. Airmen from the 505th Combat Training Squadron and the 505th Communications Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fla., are supporting the U.S. Navy Large Scale Exercise 21 – the biggest U.S. Navy exercise in a generation, according to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday, July 28 - August 16...

U.S. Airmen from the 505th Combat Training Squadron and the 505th Communications Squadron, Hurlburt Field, Fla., are supporting the U.S. Navy Large Scale Exercise 21 – the biggest U.S. Navy exercise in a generation, according to Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday, July 28 - August 16...

The guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) recently supported a U.S. Fleet Forces Command-funded project designed to increase understanding of the effects mid-frequency active sonar may have on marine mammal behavior...

 Commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic (COMNAVSURFLANT), Rear Adm. Brendan McLane, hosted an annual, two-day leadership training symposium July 22-23, at Drexler Manor Conference Center on Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek. With McLane coaching to elite performance, the conference provided a...

Capt. Joseph Hoelz – who currently serves as Fleet Judge Advocate at U.S. Fleet Forces Command – has been awarded the first-ever Rear Admiral Horace B. Robertson Prize for International Law from the U.S. Naval War College’s Stockton Center for International Law...

Commander, Navy Munitions Command Atlantic (NMCLANT) held a change of command ceremony July 8 at Nelson Chapel on board Naval Weapons Station Yorktown...

Vice Adm. Dave Kriete, deputy commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC), retired after 37 years of distinguished service, July 1...

Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener, Commander, Naval Surface Forces and Commander, Naval Surface Force U.S. Pacific Fleet, spoke to an auditorium full of commanding officers and executive officers from Hampton Roads-area ships during a command call at Naval Station Norfolk, June 23. Kitchener, whose first...

U.S. Fleet Forces Command hosted seven Navy Senior Executive Service (SES) leaders June 15 - 18 in Norfolk, Va., as part of the inaugural Senior Executive Advanced Leader Training (SALT) program...

U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) hosted a Senior Enlisted Executive Leadership Symposium (ELS) on Naval Support Activity Hampton Roads in Norfolk, Virginia, June 14-17...

The crew of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) received the 2020 Battenberg Cup Award in a ceremony aboard the ship, June 1, 2021...

Commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) announced the 2020 USFFC Sea and Shore Sailors of the Year (SOY) in a ceremony at Joint Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Va., May 27...

A dynamic NATO maritime live exercise (LIVEX) has begun off the coast of Portugal with participation from 11 Allied Nations from North America and Europe as a part of Steadfast Defender 2021, May 20...

U.S. Fleet Forces Command’s Fleet Vaccination Cell (FVC) announced this week that the current availability of vaccines at military treatment facilities (MTF) is in the thousands, and they are still urging unvaccinated Sailors to take advantage of increased availability...