19 January 2013 USS Guardian Grounding Investigation To Include Faulty Chart Data Inaccurate data in digital nautical charts may have been a factor in the grounding...
18 January 2013 USS Buffalo Welcomed to New Homeport with Aloha The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Jan. 18 after completing a homeport shift from Guam...
18 January 2013 U.S. Navy Continues Operations to Free Grounded USS Guardian While the U.S. Navy continues operations to free the grounded USS Guardian (MCM 5) from Tubbataha Reef, all 79 crew members were temporarily removed today and safely transferred by small boat to the nearby support vessels USNS Bowditch (T-AGS 62) and MSV C-Champion...
18 January 2013 Crew Transferred from Grounded USS Guardian as Safety Precaution In order to ensure the safety of the crew, most of the Sailors aboard the mine countermeasures ship USS Guardian (MCM 5) are being transferred to a support vessel. The Sasebo-based Guardian ran aground on Tubbataha Reef while transiting the Sulu Sea on Jan. 17...
16 January 2013 USS Guardian Runs Aground in the Sulu Sea No one was hurt when the mine countermeasures ship USS Guardian (MCM 5) ran aground on Tubbataha Reef at 2:25 a.m. local time, Jan. 17, while transiting the Sulu Sea...
16 January 2013 USS Germantown Departs Sasebo for Spring Patrol The forward deployed dock landing ship, part of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), departed Sasebo, Japan, Jan. 15, for its spring patrol in the 7th Fleet area of operations...
16 January 2013 USS Stethem Sailor Honored as 'Missile Defender of the Year' Fire Controlman 2nd Class Ronald Barbee was the Navy recepient of the award, which recognizes leadership and personal contribution to missile defense efforts...
14 January 2013 Tortuga First ARG Ship to Depart Sasebo for Spring Patrol Part of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group, the ship departed Sasebo, Japan, Jan. 14 for its spring patrol in the 7th Fleet area of operations...
11 January 2013 Nimitz Strike Group SAG Ships to Deploy Three San-Diego based destroyers will depart Jan. 14 to join Everett-based USS Shoup for a Nimitz Strike Group Surface Action Group deployment to the Western Pacific...
11 January 2013 USFF, CPF Announce Details of Uniform Working Groups The commanders of U.S. Fleet Forces and U.S. Pacific Fleet distributed a message to commanders and commanding officers Jan. 11 that announces the agendas of two uniform working groups...
11 January 2013 USS Buffalo bids farewell to Guam After five-and-a-half years forward deployed to Guam, the submarine departed for her new homeport of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, Jan. 11...
10 January 2013 USS Benfold to Return from Deployment The ship and crew will return to San Diego Jan. 11 from its seven-month independent deployment to the 7th Fleet area of operations...
08 January 2013 USS Thach Departs San Diego for Deployment The guided-missile frigate departed San Diego Jan. 8 for a six-month deployment to the 4th Fleet area of operations...
03 January 2013 COMSUBPAC Announces 2012 Battle Efficiency Award Winners Pacific submarine force Battle "E" winners were announced Jan. 1 in an official message to the force...
02 January 2013 USS Antietam to Depart San Diego for Hull Swap with USS Cowpens Antietam will depart San Diego Jan. 3 for Japan to conduct a hull swap with USS Cowpens and become part of the Forward Deployed Naval Forces (FDNF) operating from Yokosuka...
02 January 2013 USS Bremerton Arrives in Subic Bay USS Bremerton (SSN 698) and submarine tender USS Emory S. Land (AS 39) conducted a coordinated tended mooring to bring the submarine into Subic Bay, Philippines, Dec. 29...
22 December 2012 VP-45 Search and Rescue Mission Ensures Safety of South Korean Mariners A P-3C Orion crew from Patrol Squadron 45 located distressed South Korean mariners in the Philippine Sea, Dec. 22, and directed a Hong Kong-flagged vessel to the scene to ensure the mariners' safety...
21 December 2012 George Washington's CSADD a Cut above the Rest TUSS George Washington's Coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions (CSADD) earned the CSADD Sea Chapter of the Year for 2012, Dec. 20...
19 December 2012 Submarine USS San Francisco Deploys to Western Pacific USS San Francisco departed Naval Base Point Loma, Dec. 18, for a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations...
15 December 2012 USS Greeneville Returns to Pearl Harbor Wrapping up a six-month Western Pacific deployment, Greeneville returned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Dec. 14...