AUGUST 3, 2023 – Each year, Commander, Navy Installations Command (CNIC) conducts a Tenant Satisfaction Survey (TSS) through a third-party contract in order to provide military households with a voluntary and confidential opportunity to share open and honest feedback on their housing experience. This year’s privatized housing survey was conducted between March 20 and May 5 of … [Read more...]
Marines and Sailors Cross-Deck at Sea
A U.S. Navy LCAC enters the well deck of the San Antonio class amphibious transport docking ship USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19) on the Atlantic Ocean, July 25, 2023. The USS Mesa Verde (LPD-19), assigned to the Bataan Amphibious Ready Group and embarked 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable), under the command and control of Task Force 61/2, is on a scheduled … [Read more...]
Committee Celebrates Origins of U.S. Navy Diving Community
AUGUST 1, 2023 – They may dive the world over, but the humble beginnings of U.S. Navy divers first began on August 1, 1882 in local waters off of Newport, Rhode Island according to Navy leaders who recently voted on establishing an official birth date for the community. The Navy’s diving executive steering committee, comprised of officers and senior enlisted leaders across … [Read more...]
Naval Reactors Celebrates 75 Years
AUGUST 1, 2023 - August 4 marks the birthday of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, a joint Department of Navy and Department of Energy organization responsible for all aspects of the Navy’s nuclear propulsion, including research, design, construction, testing, operation, maintenance, and ultimate disposition of naval nuclear propulsion plants. In 1946, shortly after the … [Read more...]
Multinational Task Force Completes Exercise Over Arabian Gulf
JULY 28, 2023 – A multinational naval coalition that monitors and patrols key waterways in the Middle East completed a naval exercise over the Arabian Gulf, July 26, with representatives from Bahrain, the United Kingdom and the United States. The 11-nation coalition, International Maritime Security Construct (IMSC), conducted exercise Sentinel Shield aboard a U.S. Navy P-8A … [Read more...]