Aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) anchored off the coast of Naples, Italy, for its final port visit following seven months at sea, Oct. 16. The visit serves to demonstrate the Navy’s commitment to regional stability and maritime security in the U.S. 6th Fleet Area of Responsibility and to hel
Sailors, DoD personnel, and civilians celebrated Hispanic Heritage Month with a ceremony at the Grand Vista Ballroom on Naval Station Everett (NSE), Oct. 17. The ceremony opened with Culinary Specialist 1st Class (SW) Enrique L. Torres, leading petty officer of the NSE galley, speaking on the origin
The Royal Navy frigate HMS Monmouth left Plymouth on a seven-month maritime security deployment to the Gulf. The ship has two main missions: to protect the trade routes the UK economy depends on and to maintain security on the high seas, which will be achieved through surveillance and deterring and
Raytheon Company has been awarded a $45.3 million U.S. Navy contract to provide MK 54 lightweight torpedo hardware, test equipment, spares and related engineering and repair services for U.S. fleet inventory and in support of foreign military sales to the Royal Australian Navy and the Indian Navy. T
Although Sailors aboard USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) won’t be able to vote from home, they can rest assured knowing the Navy has taken all the appropriate steps to ensure their voices are heard for the upcoming presidential election. Sending and receiving mail while deployed is very important to Sai
Survey ship HMS Protector produced stunning sonar imagery of the wreck of a wartime tanker to help salvage experts study the state of it. Today’s sailors also held a service of remembrance for RFA Darkdale, which was lost with nearly all hands when torpedoed in 1941 off the tiny South Atlantic islan
Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility (PHNSY) opened a new satellite machine shop Oct. 5 that provides on-site light machinery services at the shipyard’s Fleet Maintenance Activity-Submarine Division. The division, which performs short-term, scheduled repair and maintenan
Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a $50.6 million contract by prime contractor Huntington Ingalls Industries to supply the Machinery Control System (MCS) for the U.S. Navy’s LHA-7 amphibious assault ship. The MCS controls the major shipboard systems including the highly automated propuls
The commander of Naval Air Force Atlantic, visited the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike) during the ship’s deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and maritime security in the region, Oct. 16-17. Rear Adm. Ted N. Branch came to Ike to express his gratitude for all
Arliegh Burke-class destroyer USS Michael Murphy (DDG-112) made its very first port of call Oct. 16, in Barbados while operating in U.S. 4th fleet area of operations. Murphy is the U.S. Navy’s newest warship. The ship was commissioned Oct. 6, in New York City, and is currently passing through the 4t
The Navy will christen the amphibious assault ship, America (LHA 6), on Oct. 20, during a 10 a.m. CDT ceremony in Pascagoula, Miss. The Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James F. Amos will deliver the ceremony’s principal address. Mrs. Lynne Pace, wife of former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Sta
The Sailors aboard Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) celebrated the ship’s 35th birthday while also honoring the birthday of the ship’s namesake with a ceremony held in the foc’sle, Oct. 16. The ceremony was held to honor the legacies and accomplishments of the man and
Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Mike Stevens visited Naval Station Rota, Spain, Oct. 16, to evaluate Rota’s progress toward homeporting four destroyers there as part of Forward Deployed Naval Forces (FDNF) beginning in 2014. G
The crew of guided-missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG 67) held a ceremony in memory of the 12th anniversary of the al-Qaida suicide attack on the ship, Oct. 12., while staff and students from Training Support Center (TSC), Great Lakes, Ill., did the same at BEQ 6301, the USS Cole’s namesake barracks. B
