July 8, 2014, Newport, R.I. (NNS) - Twenty-one Sailors assigned to U.S. Naval War College (NWC) in Newport completed command sponsor training, July 3. As part of the Navy's 21st Century Sailor initiative, the training served as an opportunity to qualify NWC Sailors to perform duties as command sponsors in order to provide incoming personnel with meaningful pre-arrival … [Read more...]
Revised SDAP Rates Announced
July 8, 2014, Millington, Tenn. (NNS) - Revisions to Special Duty Assignment Pay (SDAP) for eligible enlisted Sailors were announced in NAVADMIN 156/14 released July 7. The SDAP program enhances the Navy's ability to size, shape and stabilize the force by encouraging qualified Sailors to serve in designated Special Duty Assignments (SDAs) for a monetary incentive ranging from … [Read more...]
Navy and Marine Public Health Center Develops New Regulation for Medicine Healthcare Practitioners
July 8, 2014, Portsmouth, Va. (NNS) - The Navy and Marine Corps Public Health Center (NMCPHC) issued technical guidance regarding a new regulation from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) and U.S. Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED) instruction 1500.30, July 7. The regulation came into effect May 21, requiring health care practitioners who … [Read more...]
Midshipmen Receive a Taste of At-Sea Destroyer Life
July 2, 2014, SOUTH CHINA SEA (NNS) - Becoming a commissioned officer in the United States Navy requires intelligence, determination, and the ability to lead. A midshipman is someone in the process of becoming and officer by completing four years at the United States Naval Academy or a reserve officer training core (ROTC) program at a designated university. Five midshipmen … [Read more...]
NMRC Researchers Publish Genome Sequence of MERS Virus
July 2, 2014, SILVER SPRING, Md. (NNS) - A team of researchers from the Naval Medical Research Center, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit No. Three in Cairo, Egypt, completed a full genome sequence of the Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome Corona virus, or MERS-CoV. MERS-CoV is a recently emerged virus that … [Read more...]