JULY 5, 2021 - In 1936, Our Navy correspondent Mary McElliott was given special access to the hospital ship USS Relief (AH-1). She would marvel over its design and capabilities writing, “If you are accustomed to thinking of a hospital ship as a large institution, with a grim, forbidding exterior, and a solemn, mysterious interior, where an air of hushed expectancy hovering over … [Read more...]

JULY 1, 2021 - Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday visited USS Constitution to conduct a naturalization ceremony and engage with Sailors June 30. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services presented 10 citizenship candidates, two who currently serve on the USS Constitution, to the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts during a naturalization ceremony … [Read more...]

JUNE 30, 2021 - As part of its virtual event series, the NEX along with MWR Navy Fitness and MWR Navy Entertainment, will be hosting Founded on Freedom during the July 4th holidays. During the weekend, patrons can participate in the Run for Freedom virtual 5k race July 1 – 4. In addition to the 5k race, patrons can also tune in to listen to the free Jams for Freedom virtual … [Read more...]

JUNE 29, 2021 - For graduating medical interns who are going to their first operational assignments as General Medical Officers (GMOs), Flight Surgeons and Undersea Medical Officers, the range and breadth of medical procedures and knowledge they are expected to have mastered can be a bit daunting. Naval Medical Readiness and Training Commands Portsmouth, San Diego and … [Read more...]

JUNE 28, 2021 – The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Howard (DDG 83) began a series of successful anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercises in the Hawaiian Island Operating Area (HIOA), June 12. One of 68 in its class, ASW is a primary mission area of an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer and is the ability to detect, track, classify and destroy submarines using both organic and … [Read more...]