MARCH 29, 2024 - Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti yesterday said she credits both a recent transformation in the Navy's surface warfare training regimen and the quality of logistics operations for the service's ability to successfully counter recent attacks by Iranian-backed Houthi terrorists in the Red Sea. Navy assets have been operating in the Red Sea since … [Read more...]
U.S. Navy Hosts Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force
240326-N-TY650-1012 WASHINGTON (March 26, 2024) Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Operations, Plans and Strategy, Vice Adm. Gene Black, hosted his Japanese counterpart, Rear Adm. Nobuyuki Takenaka, Director General, Operations and Plans Department, Maritime Staff Office, Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF), for a bilateral strategic dialogue at the Pentagon, Mar. 26 … [Read more...]
USS Somerset Arrives for Third Iteration of Tiger TRIUMPH
Distinguished visitors stand at attention for the playing of the U.S. and Indian national anthems during the opening ceremony of Exercise Tiger TRIUMPH in Visakhapatnam, India, March 19, 2024. Tiger TRIUMPH is a U.S.-India tri-service amphibious exercise focused on humanitarian assistance and disaster relief readiness and interoperability. Tiger TRIUMPH enables U.S. and Indian … [Read more...]
Small Satellite Launch Advances Comms, International Collaboration
MARCH 28, 2024 - In the dark, early morning sky of March 21 over NASA’s Wallops Island Flight Facility on the Virginia coast, a Rocket Lab Electron rocket carried a National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) manifest featuring three collaborative research missions into low-Earth orbit – including the latest piece of home-grown space hardware from the Naval Postgraduate School … [Read more...]
Gold Star Spouses Day April 5, 2024
MARCH 27, 2024 - April 5, 2024, will be recognized as Gold Star Spouse Day, a day dedicated to honoring the husbands and wives of those who died while serving on active duty. Since 2010, Congress has annually acknowledged April 5th as “Gold Star Wives’ Day,” paying tribute to the contributions of individuals associated with Gold Star Wives of America, a non-profit … [Read more...]