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Eisenhower carrier strike group sailors line up for vaccines
Feb 15, 2021 (UPI)
The first round of the Moderna vaccine, which requires two doses, delivered a month apart, was scheduled for rollout on Monday for about 6,000 crew, officers an...
USS Donald Cook wraps Black Sea operations
Feb 11, 2021 (UPI)
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer transited to the Mediterranean Sea Wednesday after conducting presence operations in the Black Sea that started...
Coast Guard receives new Guam-bound cutter
Feb 11, 2021 (UPI)
According to the Coast Guard, the Frederick Hatch will be the third FRC stationed in Guam, and will arrive in Santa Rita during the summer. "The fast response c...
Two U.S. carrier strike groups train in South China Sea
Feb 10, 2021 (UPI)
The operations of the USS Theodore Roosevelt and the USS Nimitz -- aircraft carriers traveling with fighter planes and escort ships which include frigates and g...
Roosevelt, Nimitz strike groups conduct operations in South China Sea
Feb 09, 2021 (UPI)
According to the Navy, the ships and aircraft of the two strike groups "conducted a multitude of exercises" aimed at increasing interoperability between assets....
USS Makin Island, USS Port Royal, USNS Carl Brashear enter Arabian Gulf
Feb 09, 2021 (UPI)
According to the U.S. Marine Corps, the Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group and the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit will operate alongside regional and coalition...
Navy student pilots qualify using Precision Landing Mode on Ford carrier
Feb 09, 2021 (UPI)
Carrier Strike Groups have been using PLM, a new, safer flight control technology, which is also intended to increase training efficiency by reducing the number...
U.S. Navy joins Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in mine removal exercise
Feb 08, 2021 (UPI)
The annual event, this year named Mine Warfare Exercise 1JA 2021 and held in southwestern Japan's Ise Bay, is designed to increase mutual proficiency in mine co...
Future USS Daniel Inouye completes acceptance trials
Feb 05, 2021 (UPI)
The acceptance trials of the Navy's Board of Inspection and Survey concluded on Feb. 4, and included a series of demonstrations, at pierside and at sea, of the ...
USS Rafael Peralta deployed to Japan
Feb 04, 2021 (UPI)
The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer will support the Defense Strategic Guidance in the Indo-Pacific Region, allowing for the most rapid response ti...
Northrop Grumman collaborates with Ultra to demonstrate unmanned anti-submarine warfare capability
Feb 04, 2021 (SPX)
This successful demonstration of the UAS ASW mission on October 29 was the first time a vertical takeoff surrogate unmanned aerial system (VTUAS) had been used ...
Nimitz moves into Indo-Pacific region after 270 days in Central Command
Feb 02, 2021 (UPI)
"We want to thank all the men and women aboard the ships in that strike crew and the squadrons who supported Central Command now for more than 270 days, ensurin...
Submarine USS Toledo arrives at Norfolk for overhaul
Jan 29, 2021 (UPI)
The Los Angeles-class vessel, commissioned in 1995, will undergo replacement, repair and overhaul of hardware and mechanical systems following an "early product...
USS Porter enters Black Sea for NATO security operations
Jan 28, 2021 (UPI)
According to NATO, the vessel, which left its home port in Rota, Spain, earlier this month, is the third U.S. ship to enter the Black Sea in recent days. Guided...
Coast Guard Cutter Waesche completes repairs after September fire
Jan 26, 2021 (UPI)
According to the Coast Guard, Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center spent more than 10,000 man-hours of labor to fix vital and non-vital li...
US warships conduct exercises in South China Sea
Jan 25, 2021 (AFP)
Led by the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the carrier strike group entered the area Saturday, the US Indo-Pacific Command said, the same day Taiwan reported multiple C...
U.S. Navy prepares for two-week Citadel Shield-Solid Curtain security exercise
Jan 25, 2021 (UPI)
The annual exercise will occur from Feb. 1 to Feb. 12, involving installations across the country's 11 Naval Districts, in drills and training to cover a range ...
USS Freedom joins ships of El Salvador, Guatemala in Pacific Ocean for exercises
Jan 22, 2021 (UPI)
The PASSEX exercise, which ensures that navies can communicate and cooperate in times of war or humanitarian relief, includes semaphore drills and flaghoist dri...
Libya navy school fire kills officers, civilian: ministry
Jan 20, 2021 (AFP)
Health ministry spokesman Amine al-Hachemi said on Twitter that "the blaze at the Naval Academy in Sayyad, west of Tripoli," killed General Ahmad Ayoub and Gene...
Report: Testing reveals flaws in Marines' new amphibious combat vehicle
Jan 20, 2021 (UPI)
Although the ACV could maneuver, demonstrate desert and water mobility and provide "suppressive fires in support of dismounted infantry," it did not "meet its 6...
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