PEARL HARBOR, December 05, 2013 (NNS) - Feedback from Sailors in the fleet is vital to understand what problems are prevalent, what policies work and what needs to be changed in order to deter and prevent sexual harassment and asexual assault incidents. One way of gathering this information is a Department of Navy-wide, voluntary, anonymous sexual assault survey, initiated … [Read more...]

WASHINGTON, December 05, 2013 (NNS) - Actor and humanitarian Gary Sinise and the Lt. Dan Band performed a free United Service Organization (USO) concert for the Washington Navy Yard and Washington, D.C. Navy community at Constitution Hall, December 3. Before the Lt. Dan Band performance, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus thanked USO and Sinise for making the concert happen. … [Read more...]

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., December 03, 2013 (NNS) - The Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) announced Dec. 2 that Sailors and Marines in 40 ships and submarines deployed away from their homeports and those forward deployed to overseas ports during the holiday season will be given a free $10 phone card to call loved ones back home. "This is just one small way that we can thank … [Read more...]

NORFOLK, Va. (NNS) November 26, 2013 - Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike) and other volunteers gathered Nov. 19-21 to prepare Thanksgiving assistance boxes for distribution to military families. In coordination with the Armed Services YMCA (ASYMCA), the volunteers prepared packages complete with non-perishable foods and a $15.00 … [Read more...]

November 21, 2013 - From the steaming hot days in the summer to the frozen snowstorms in the winter, Recruit Training Command at Great Lakes, Ill., is home to basic training for all Navy recruits. For a little over two months each recruit will eat, sleep, and live Navy and nothing else, to prepare him or her for A School, or specified training school. The Navy trained more … [Read more...]