ICEX 2018: Proving Ground for Submarine Arctic Operability and Warfighting
Ice Exercise (ICEX) 2018 is underway in the Arctic Ocean. The five-week biennial exercise allows us to assess our operational readiness in the Arctic, increase experience there, advance understanding of the Arctic environment and continue to develop relationships with other services, allies and partner organizations. During ICEX 2018, the Seawolf-class fast attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN …
Faces of the Fleet: Women’s History Month
The Navy joins the nation in celebrating Women’s History Month throughout the month of March 2018. Women have served in the Navy as nurses dating back to the 1800s – most notably during the Civil War when the Sisters of the Holy Cross served aboard USS Red Rover, the Navy’s first hospital ship. In 1948, women …
Pay and Personnel Administrators Receive New Opportunities for Training, Counsel and Collaboration
From Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs Improving the quality of pay and personnel services across the Navy is a cornerstone of Sailor 2025, the Navy’s largest personnel modernization effort ever undertaken, and thus remains one of our top priorities for increasing Sailors’ quality of life. Timely and accurate pay and personnel transactions are a …
Pay and Personnel Administrators Receive New Opportunities for Training, Counsel and Collaboration
From Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs Improving the quality of pay and personnel services across the Navy is a cornerstone of Sailor 2025, the Navy’s largest personnel modernization effort ever undertaken, and thus remains one of our top priorities for increasing Sailors’ quality of life. Timely and accurate pay and personnel transactions are a …
Shoulder-to-Shoulder: Building on Partnerships at Cobra Gold
By Capt. Larry McCullen Commanding officer, USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) As the commanding officer of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), my days are usually filled with myriad operations from launching or recovering amphibious craft to launching and landing helicopters on the flight deck. Our crew spends countless hours maintaining …
Shoulder-to-Shoulder: Building on Partnerships at Cobra Gold
By Capt. Larry McCullen Commanding officer, USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) As the commanding officer of the amphibious assault ship USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), my days are usually filled with myriad operations from launching or recovering amphibious craft to launching and landing helicopters on the flight deck. Our crew spends countless hours maintaining …
Navy Recruit Graduation: March 2, 2018
Welcome to Navy Live blog coverage of Recruit Training Command’s graduation, Pass-In-Review. It is a formal military ceremony that honors a Sailor’s hard work and dedication to a new way of life. Pass-In-Review also ties together the future of the Navy with our long-held naval traditions and customs. Read how Recruit Training Command transforms civilians …
USS Harry S. Truman CSG: COMPTUEX Success!
By Rear Adm. Roy Kelley Commander, Naval Air Force Atlantic I would like to take this time to extend a hearty “Bravo Zulu” to the Sailors of the USS Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (CSG 8) for their completion of the ever-rigorous Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX). Your successful completion of this joint exercise …
Presidential Sailors
On this President’s Day weekend, we’re taking a look at the Sailors who went from shipmates to presidents.
PCU Colorado (SSN 788)
About the Boat When and where is the commissioning ceremony? The commissioning ceremony will be held at Naval Submarine Base New London on March 17, 2018. How many other submarines does the U.S. Navy currently have? There are currently three classes of SSNs (attack submarines) in service; the Los Angeles, Sea Wolf and Virginia …