United States Navy

Some years before, landing on a small deck was really difficult:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-cvv8SVhHA

 

But today, robotic landing gear could enable future aircrafts to take off and land almost anywhere. Stabilisations technologies with small gyroscopes and computer programs are cheaper than be...

Brutal, misguided killers? Courageous heroes to whom our country is deeply in debt? Or both?

 

More than 1,000 readers of a Sunday story about SEAL Team 6 debated those questions in a discussion that reached the heights of patriotic idealism and plumbed the depths of war-weary cynicism.

 

The article pr...

Frigates are, hands-down, the heavy hitter in the Navy's fight to stop drug traffickers at sea. They nabbed 98 percent of the 164 metric tons of cocaine, valued at $3.2 billion, that Navy ships have seized in the last five years.

 

But the frigates' service coming to an end this summer, which could cr...

http://www.navytimes.com/story/military/careers/navy/2015/06/09/navy-personnel-moran-recruiting-retention-bonuses/28735317/

 

Will this program, if approved, effectively waive the high year tenure program for those enlisted and officers in these technical fields who for whatever reason don't get selec...

In requiem for more than 16 United States Navy Seals. Controversial.

 

The Medal of Honor is the nation's highest award for valor in combat. It

 

is the only military medal that is worn around the neck. Its recipients

 

are the only individuals whom the President salutes as a matter of custom.

 

It is a...

A bit about myself:

 

I'm in the Naval Reserves and will be using my MGIB-SR starting in the fall to help pay for my tuition. I am working on getting a degree in Psychology (~2 years of education left), and I am working towards becoming a Naval Officer on the active duty side.

 

My ultimate goal is to ...

Gone are the simulated missile attacks, mass casualties, and shipboard fires, the hallmark of Cold War training, sources say. Instead recruits will now face challenges more suitable to the 21st Century threat environment: sexual harassment training; drug and alcohol response; and leadership more wor...

See http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/call-details/1771 for the original call for chapters.

 

Editors:

 

Maurice Dawson, University of Missouri-St. Louis, USA

 

Call for Chapters:

 

Proposals Submission Deadline: June 30, 2015

 

Full Chapters Due: August 30, 2015

 

Introduction:

 

This handbook of...

If you were honorably discharged from the Navy, Marine Corp or Coast Guard, please take a minute to check out the local chapter of the "Navy Club". We meet at the Veteran's Center on the grounds of what was Fort Benjamin Harrison on the northeast side of Indy. We meet once a month on the 1st Tuesday at 6pm.

 

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I ran across the below article and the concept seems valid, viable, and easy to field using current platforms. So the question I ask of the maritime experts out there is how feasible or applicable does this really seem?

 

https://news.vice.com/article/figuring-out-the-future-of-war-in-the-pacific-or-w...

While the U.S. waged a war in Vietnam 50 years ago with 2.7 million men conscripted from every segment of society, less than one-half of 1% of the U.S. population is in the armed services today - the lowest rate since World War II. America's recent wars are authorized by a U.S. Congress whose member...

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon Greenert had some advice for the Naval Academy's graduating class Friday: Keep your social media private. And call your mom every week.

 

The fleet welcomed 790 new ensigns, 264 new Marine Corps second lieutenants and two Air Force second lieutenants in a graduation ...

It was April 14, 1988: the day USS Samuel B. Roberts, on her maiden cruise, should have sunk in the Persian Gulf but was saved by a herculean effort.

 

For the next four hours, the Sammy B's beleaguered crew waged a fight for survival that stands as a testament to the simple truth that a well-trained,...

I was informed by command triad yesterday of my advancement. In previous command, I have seen one sailor had the chain providing a patch for SDW rating insignia sew on a canvas with each stroke per person in the department. She framed it along with her Shadow Box. So I was wondering, what are some o...

2006 – The aircraft carrier USS Oriskany is sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef.

 

USS Oriskany (CV/CVA-34) – nicknamed Mighty O, and occasionally referred to as the O-boat – was one of the few Essex-class aircraft carriers completed only after World War II for the United States Navy. Th...

On August 31, 1949, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson announced the creation of an Armed Forces Day to replace separate Army, Navy and Air Force Days.

 

The single-day celebration stemmed from the unification of the Armed Forces under one department -- the Department of Defense.

 

Each of the militar...

1. SECNAV plans to open all operational billets to women.

 

2. Base day care centers to open earlier and remain open later.

 

3. Better co-location policies and joint service co-location policies.

 

4. Legislation has been proposed that will double paid maternity leave from 6-12 weeks.

 

5. SECNAV is planni...

Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, in an address at the Naval Academy on 13 May 2015, explained the Navy’s plans for revamping talent management. See: http://www.navy.mil/navydata/people/secnav/Mabus/Speech/USNA%20Talent%20Management%20Speech_FINAL.pdf. From page 11: "Promoting our troops is import...

I don't know how you feel about 'Snopes' but I just read a story about a German Destroyer, FGS Lutjens, holding up a banner reading "We Stand By You" while 'manning the rails' to the USS Winston S. Churchill in the wake of the 9-11-01 attacks! It's a very moving letter written by someone aboard that...

1975 – The American freighter Mayaguez is captured by communist government forces in Cambodia, setting off an international incident.

 

The U.S. response to the affair indicated that the wounds of the Vietnam War still ran deep. On May 12, 1975, the U.S. freighter Mayaguez and its 39-man crew was cap...

1778 – Captain John Paul Jones of Ranger led landing party raid on Whitehaven, England.

 

Whitehaven was an English seaport on the Irish Sea. The decision to raid it was not made because of its strategic value, for the ships in its harbor were mostly coastal fishing vessels, containing little of valu...

1963 – The USS Thresher nuclear-powered submarine failed to surface 220 miles east of Boston, Mass., in a disaster that claimed 129 lives.

 

The second USS Thresher (SSN-593) was the lead boat of her class of nuclear-powered attack submarines in the United States Navy. Her loss at sea in the North At...

Be part of an important study into the phenomena of Command Failure

 

• Were you an officer in the U. S. Navy?

 

• Are you a former CO who’s Command Tour was cut short?

 

• Do you want to provide your viewpoint of the event?

 

If you answered YES to these questions, you may be eligible to participate in a s...

Between 2002 to 2008, the U.S. Navy turned four of its oldest Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) into nuclear-powered cruise missile vessels (SSGN). The four subs — the USS Ohio, USS Michigan, USS Florida and USS Georgia – are expected to remain in service until 2023 to 2026. The U.S. Na...

1916 – USS Nevada (BB-36) is commissioned as the first US Navy “super-dreadnought”.

 

USS Nevada (BB-36), the second United States Navy ship to be named after the 36th state, was the lead ship of the two Nevada-class battleships; her sister ship was Oklahoma. Launched in 1914, the Nevada was a leap f...

1776 – First amphibious landing operation.

 

Continental naval squadron under Commodore Esek Hopkins lands Sailors and Marines, commanded by Captain Samuel Nicholas, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas, capturing urgently-needed ordnance and gunpowder.

 

The Battle of Nassau (March 3–4, 1776) was ...

USS Fort Worth (foreground) is currently in the Asia-Pacific region for a 16-month deployment that began in December 2014. Source: Lockheed Martin

 

From: IHS Jane's Navy International

 

Key Points

 

-The USN has incorporated into its operational plan lessons learned from its maiden LCS deployment to the ...

1854 – Admiral Perry anchors off Yokosuka, Japan to receive Emperor’s reply to a treaty proposal.

 

This agreement, forced on the Tokugawa shogunate by Commodore Perry’s menacing “black ships,” ended over two centuries of virtual exclusion (the exception being the Dutch) of foreign traders from the c...

1859 – U.S. signs “Treaty of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation” with Paraguay at Asuncion after the revenue cutter Harriet Lane, as part of a US Navy expedition, forces the opening of the Paraguay and Parana Rivers.

 

During the 1850s, Carlos Antonio Lopez, dictator of the small, landlocked, South A...

EXTRA: Happy birthday US Army Dental Corps--1901.

 

1800 – USS Constellation (CAPT Thomas Truxtun) defeats la Vengeance. The USS Constellation vs La Vengeance was a single-ship action fought between frigates of the French Navy and the United States Navy during the Quasi-War.

 

The battle resulted in th...

Warner Bros’ American Sniper is looking at another enormous record-setting weekend with a projected $59.3M. If that number holds through Sunday, it would be the second-highest weekend ever for a film in January, after Sniper‘s gigantic FSS of $89.3M. Friday alone looks to be $17.45M, which is just u...

1962 – Navy SEAL teams established.

 

In March 1961, Arleigh Burke, Chief of Naval Operations, recommended the establishment of guerrilla and counter-guerrilla units. These units would be able to operate from sea, air or land. This was the beginning of the Navy SEALs.

 

All SEALs came from the Navy’s U...

I ask because I am co-writing a novel where two of our characters, a SEAL (corpsmen) warrant and a female USN Captain might wind up having an affair. I'm trying to navigate USN regs on the matter. From what I understand, there is no UCMJ article preventing such a union; I just don't know about Navr...