DECEMBER 5, 2024 - Navy leaders are focused on positioning the nation's sea service as a world class employer in building upon this year's recruiting and retention success, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa M. Franchetti said yesterday. After falling short of its recruiting goal last year, the Navy exceeded its target in fiscal year 2024 with 40,978 new sailors joining the … [Read more...]
USS Bulkeley Makes Port Visit to Cyprus
240822-N-XO016-1082 CHANIA, Greece (Aug. 22, 2024) The guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) sails in Chania harbor to the guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) to assume a nested mooring configuration, Aug. 22, 2024. Arleigh Burke is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations, employed by U.S. 6th Fleet to defend U.S., … [Read more...]
Navy Divers Showcase Expertise
A U.S. Navy diver from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) 2 enters the water during a simulated anti-terrorism force protection (ATFP) dive off the side of the ex-USS Fort McHenry (LSD-43) in the NAVSEA Inactive Ships Maintenance Yard in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Nov. 18, 2024. MDSU 2 and Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 6 are training as an integrated team … [Read more...]
Marines and Sailors Improve Barracks Conditions
U.S. Marine Corps 2nd Lt. Adam T. Taitano, 1st Combat Engineer Battalion logistics officer along with U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jared R. Wilbanks, 1st CEB combat engineer, fix a door lock during Operation Clean Sweep at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Oct. 29, 2024. Operation Clean Sweep is a joint initiative between Marine Corps Installations West and I Marine … [Read more...]
Actor Humphrey Bogart Served During WWI and WWII
NOVEMBER 27, 2024 - Actor Humphrey Bogart is best known for his leading roles in the films "The Maltese Falcon" (1941), "Casablanca" (1942), "The African Queen" (1951), "The Caine Mutiny" (1954) and more. Lesser known is that Bogart also served in World War I in the Navy and during World War II in the Coast Guard. In the Spring of 1918 during World War I, Bogart, 18, … [Read more...]