21 January 2014 USS McCampbell Visits Saipan during 7th Fleet Patrol The guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85) arrived in Saipan for a port visit, Jan. 21, while on patrol in the 7th Fleet area of operations...
19 January 2014 USS Spruance Rescues Mariner in Singapore Strait Sailors from the guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance rescued a Filipino mariner, Jan. 18, who had fallen overboard from his vessel while transiting the Singapore Strait...
17 January 2014 Navy Investigates Fuel Leak at Underground Storage Facility The Navy, in close coordination with the Hawaii State Department of Health and other agencies, is investigating a fuel leak from one tank at the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility...
17 January 2014 Pacific Navies Focus on Disaster Relief at 7th Fleet Conference More than 100 medical experts from nine countries in the Pacific region gathered in Yokosuka, Japan at the annual Pacific Navies Senior Medical Leadership Seminar, January 15-16 to begin development of common Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response (HA/DR) procedures...
14 January 2014 Aircraft Carrier Moves Underscore Pacific Rebalance Strategy USS Ronald Reagan will relieve USS George Washington in Japan and USS Theodore Roosevelt will leave the East Coast for San Diego. Specific timelines will be announced separately, closer to the actual movement of the carriers...
13 January 2014 USS North Carolina, CTF-72 Participate in Snapdragon Exercise The Virginia-class attack submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft took part in the anti-submarine warfare training exercise in the Philippine Sea Dec. 30 to Jan. 1...
10 January 2014 U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Praises P-8 Squadron Vice Adm. Robert Thomas flew over Japan with VP-16 in the Navy's newest maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft, the P-8 Poseidon, Jan. 9 and praised the crew for their hard work...
10 January 2014 USS Tucson Visits Yokosuka during Western Pacific Deployment The Los Angeles-class fast-attack submarine arrived in Yokosuka, Japan, Jan. 10, for a visit as part of its Western Pacific deployment...
09 January 2014 Pacific Submarine Force Battle Efficiency Awards Announced COMSUBPAC announced the recipients of the 2013 Battle Efficiency (Battle "E") award for 2013 in an official message to the submarine force, Jan. 1...
09 January 2014 U.S. Navy Admiral Mentors Korean Female ROTC Unit Rear Adm. Lisa Franchetti discussed her command philosophy and ideas on career development with 60 female cadets at Seoul's Sookmyung Women's University, Jan. 8...
07 January 2014 USS John Paul Jones to replace USS Lake Erie; USS Preble also moving to Hawaii The U.S. Navy announced Jan. 7 that USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) will swap homeports with USS Lake Erie (CG 70) this summer. USS Preble (DDG 88) will also leave San Diego for Hawaii this summer to replace the decommissioned frigate USS Reuben James (FFG 57)...
06 January 2014 Wounded Warrior Pacific Invitational Training Camp Underway Members of Team Navy, which includes 40 Sailors and Coast Guardsmen, are preparing at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Jan. 5-7 for the first-ever Wounded Warrior Pacific Invitational in Honolulu, Jan. 8-10...
03 January 2014 USS Kidd, USS Pinckney to Deploy to Western Pacific The guided-missile destroyers are scheduled to depart Naval Base San Diego Jan. 7 on independent deployments to the Western Pacific...
23 December 2013 Freedom Completes Maiden Deployment; Returns to San Diego The littoral combat ship USS Freedom (LCS 1) returned to its homeport of San Diego Dec. 23 following the completion of its maiden deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations...
23 December 2013 Navy Issues Record of Decision for Hawaii-Southern California Training and Testing Environmental Impact Statement The U.S. Navy has issued a Record of Decision (ROD) for the Hawaii-Southern California Training and Testing (HSTT) Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (EIS/OEIS)...
19 December 2013 USS Freedom Set to Complete Maiden Deployment The littoral combat ship is scheduled to return to its homeport of San Diego Dec. 23 following the completion of its maiden deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations...
19 December 2013 Submarine USS Hampton Returns from Deployment The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine returned home to San Diego Dec. 18 following a six-month deployment to the Western Pacific...
18 December 2013 Lead of PACFLT Maritime Operations Center Unit Changes Hands Cmdr. David Lum relieved Capt. Charles Sharkey as the commanding officer of U.S. Pacific Fleet's Navy Reserve Maritime Operations Center (MOC) Detachment 301 during a ceremony aboard the Battleship Missouri Memorial, Dec. 17...
18 December 2013 Seabees, Tonga Counterparts Advance Disaster Center Project Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 3 Seabees, working with the Tonga Defense Force, reached the halfway point Dec. 18 in their construction of a new community center and disaster response center in Te'ekiu...
16 December 2013 USNS Bobo Completes Palau Maritime Security Training Mission Sailors aboard the USNS 2nd Lt. John P. Bobo (T-AK-3008) completed a nearly two-week long Theater Security Cooperation mission to the Republic of Palau from Dec. 2 to Dec. 14...