DECEMBER 22, 2022 – On Dec. 20, 2022, the Department of the Navy (DON) and Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) signed a new Administrative Consent Order with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to address the defueling and closure of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility (RHBFSF), and improvements to the Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam drinking water system. The Consent … [Read more...]
Navy Uses Launch and Recovery System for Unmanned Vehicles
DECEMBER 21, 2022 - A collaborative research and development effort led by a U.S. Navy team recently demonstrated a new launch and recovery concept for large unmanned undersea vehicles (UUVs), with staff from the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) Division Newport and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), which is headquartered in Virginia. The demonstration, conducted at … [Read more...]
Navy Using 3D Training System with Sailors
Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) Airman John Sullivan, from Apple Valley, Calif., uses the multi-purpose reconfigurable training system (MRTS) 3-D aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72). Abraham Lincoln is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Clayton A. … [Read more...]
Marines and Sailors Conduct Steel Knight 23
DECEMBER 21, 2022 - As threats from around the world remain on our nation’s horizon, the Navy and Marine Corps remain ready to respond at a moment’s notice. For more than 30 years, Exercise Steel Knight has served as 1st Marine Division’s culminating event for pre-deployment certification, under I Marine Expeditionary Force. Today, as the nature of threats evolve, so does … [Read more...]
USNS Comfort Completes Haiti Mission
221216-N-LP924-1128 JEREMIE, Haiti (Dec. 16, 2022) Lt. Cmdr. Kyle McDonald, from Frankenmuth, Michigan, assigned to the hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH20), conducts an oral exam on a patient during Continuing Promise 2022 at a medical site in Jeremie, Haiti, Dec. 16, 2022. Comfort is deployed to U.S. 4th Fleet in support of Continuing Promise 2022, a humanitarian assistance … [Read more...]