OCTOBER 8, 2021 - After months of meetings, teleconferences, meticulous content conversion and a 55-day long pilot effort, the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training (CNATT) saw classroom instruction begin in its first Ready, Relevant Learning (RRL)-modernized course, the “A” school for Aviation Maintenance Administrationmen (AZ), recently in Naval Air Station Meridian, … [Read more...]

OCTOBER 8, 2021 - USS Connecticut (SSN 22) struck an object while submerged on the afternoon of Oct. 2, while operating in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region. There are no life threatening injuries. The Seawolf-class fast-attack submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22) struck an object while submerged on the afternoon of Oct. 2, while operating in international waters … [Read more...]

OCTOBER 6, 2021 – An F/A-18F Super Hornet crashed in Death Valley National Park, California, at approximately 3 p.m. (PDT), October 4. The pilot was treated for minor injuries at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, and released later that night. The aircraft was assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 9 based at Naval Air Weapons Station … [Read more...]

ARABIAN SEA (Sept. 27, 2021) An MH-60R Seahawk helicopter, attached to the “Easy Riders” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 37 (HSM 37), takes off from the flight deck of the guided-missile destroyer USS O’Kane (DDG 77) during flight operations in the Arabian Sea, Sept. 27. O’Kane is deployed to the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to ensure … [Read more...]