Navy

Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, the first woman to command an aircraft carrier, was relieved as commanding officer for the USS Abraham Lincoln in a Naval ceremony.

Deploying at sea is an arduous task. It tests your mental fortitude. With limited contact to family back home, long hours, and an ever-changing schedule, deployment can leave sailors feeling isolated and worn out. Chaplains’ help sailors strengthen their life skills that can help reduce stress and build resiliency. Chaplains provide care and counsel to […]

Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center San Diego on April 27, took part in the nationwide effort to honor the victims of the Holocaust and Nazi persecution by holding a virtual Days of Remembrance ceremony. The event coincides with the nation’s annual commemoration of the Holocaust established by Congress and led by the United […]

NAVAL AMPHIBIOUS BASE CORONADO – If you want to see a U.S. Navy team dedicated to keeping a culture of excellence, look no further than the deck department aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Boxer. The officers, boatswain’s mates and undesignated seamen who make up the deck department on Boxer say they maintain the […]

Today, the museum averages 1.5 million visitors per year, and it will host a Top Gun Maverick Party and Movie Night on May 26. Tickets – $30 for general admission and $40 for limited reserve seating – go on sale at 11 a.m. on April 27.

NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO- The guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance held its change of command ceremony aboard the USS Midway Museum on April 14, when Cmdr. Christopher Ivey relieved Cmdr. Douglas Robb during the time-honored ceremony. With the crew of USS Spruance in attendance, Robb passed command to Ivey on the historic carrier’s flight deck. Ivey […]

USS Boxer Sailor Interior Communications Electrician 2nd Class Jayson Salgado has been named the Sexual Assault Prevention and Response (SAPR) Unit Victim Advocate of the Year. Hosted April 3, the Naval Base San Diego annual SAPR bake-off competition and award ceremony was held to bring awareness to Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month and to […]

GAMBELL, Alaska (AP) — Bruce Boolowon, then a lean 20-year-old, and a group of friends were hunting for murre eggs in a walrus skin boat on a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait when they saw a crippled airplane flying low. “Something was wrong,” Boolowon, now 87, recalled of that day in 1955. “They […]