20 November 2023 Semi-Annual Report on Quality of Service WASHINGTON – In May 2023, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro and then Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Michael Gilday released a memo titled Setting a New Course for Navy Quality of Service to directly address the identified areas necessary to improve Sailor Quality of Service (QoS)...
07 August 2023 SECNAV Names Future Navajo-Class Towing, Salvage, and Rescue Ship Solomon Atkinson WASHINGTON -- Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro announced today that a future Navajo-class Towing, Salvage, and Rescue (T-ATS) ship will be named in honor of Solomon Atkinson, a pioneering Navy SEAL and an Alaskan Native of the Metlakatla Indian Community, Annette Islands Reserve...
28 June 2022 SECNAV presides over ESG2 change of command NORFOLK, VA — By 1030 on June 24, USS Bataan’s (LHD 5) hangar bay was full of Marines in midnight blue coats and Sailors in white chokers. Most of them chatted amongst themselves in hopes it might help kill the 30 remaining minutes before show time. A smaller handful scurried about non-skid to sort...
17 May 2022 SECNAV, CNO visit USS George Washington NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Carlos Del Toro and Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Gilday traveled to Newport News, Va. today to meet with Sailors assigned to the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73)...
14 May 2022 USS Frank E. Petersen Jr. Commissions CHARLESTON, S.C. -- The Navy commissioned its newest Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG 121), May 14 in Charleston, South Carolina...