December 16, 2012 From Navy Personnel Command Public Affairs MILLINGTON, Tenn. (NNS) -- An exercise physiologist from the Navy Physical Readiness Office encourages Sailors to make small changes to their exercise plan in order to maximize success. Many people look at the New Year as a time to set goals and make grand resolutions to get physically fit. However, most resolutions … [Read more...]
The Gadget That Changed The World
By Dylan Leckie, Office of Naval Research It was Dec. 16, 1947 and while most Americans were preparing for the Christmas holiday, three physicists were locked in their laboratory, hunched over a work bench, constructing a peculiar gadget that would forever change the world. The transistor – the Bell Laboratories invention built by John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and … [Read more...]
Veterans Honored at Arlington Cemetary with Christmas Wreaths
An estimated 27,000 people converged on Arlington National Cemetery, Va., Dec. 15, to lay some 110,000 wreaths on grave sites of veterans and their spouses, according to cemetery officials. The annual tradition, called "Wreaths Across America," started two decades ago, when Morrill Worcester, owner of Worcester Wreath Company of Harrington, Maine, found he had a surplus of … [Read more...]
Panetta Signs Order to Deploy 400 U.S. Troops to Turkey
by Cheryl Pellerin American Forces Press Service 12/14/2012 - INCIRLIK AIR BASE, Turkey (AFNS) -- Secretary Panetta has signed an order that will deploy 400 U.S. personnel to Turkey to support the deployment that NATO agreed to recently of Patriot missile capability there, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said today. Panetta signed the agreement en route to Turkey as … [Read more...]
X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Launch Successful
by Maj. Eric Badger Air Force Public Affairs 12/11/2012 - CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AFNS) -- In the next installment to improve space capability and further develop an affordable, reusable space vehicle, the Air Force conducted its third X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle launch here on December 11, officials said. The launch comes on the heels of the successful flight of OTV-2, which … [Read more...]