Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta (DDG 115) and Royal Canadian Navy Halifax-class frigate HMCS Ottawa (FFH 341) conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit November 1 (local time) through waters where high-seas freedoms of navigation and overflight apply in accordance...

The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is working in close coordination with the Naval Aviation community to ensure that aspiring aviators can get a head start on their graduate-level education goals even before they earn their wings of gold...

Commander, U.S. 7th Fleet, Vice Adm. Karl Thomas hosted Defense Attaché Officers from France, Italy, Germany, Poland, Sweden, Australia, Lithuania, the United Kingdom, and the United States, aboard U.S.7th Fleet Flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), Oct. 26...

In the white sands abutting the airstrip at Pacific Missile Range Facility, Barking Sands, a green sea turtle emerged from the Pacific Ocean, perhaps in the quiet darkness under a sky filled with dazzling bright stars, to begin anew the cycle of life. ...

Pacific Partnership has returned to Fiji to conduct the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Blue Pacific, Oct. 31...

On October 30, the United States Pacific Partnership has arrived in Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) to commence the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific region...

The U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), arrived in Manila, Republic of the Philippines, for a scheduled port visit on Oct. 28...

Fleet replenishment oiler USNS Robert F. Kennedy (T-AO 208), the Military Sealift Command's newest ship, was christened during a ceremony at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego, Calif., today...

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro released his updated strategic guidance today; One Navy-Marine Corps Team: Advancing Department of the Navy Priorities. The document informs activities within the Department of the Navy to include planning, investments, budgeting, and prioritization of personnel...

Usually, news stories from Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific tell about a person, a team, a breakthrough, or a vision. This one is different: it's about thousands of people, thousands of breakthroughs, countless visions, and how each moved through time and space to shape itself into an...

Commander, Naval Surface Forces (CNSF) hosted a Maintenance and Sustainment Summit, Oct. 24 and 25 with a focus toward the on-time delivery and sustainment of ships, a key component of Surface Force readiness...

The first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, USS Jack H. Lucas (DDG 125), arrived at its new homeport in San Diego Oct. 25...

Unmanned Surface Vessel Division One’s (USVDIV-1) unmanned surface vessels (USVs) Ranger, Mariner, Seahawk and Sea Hunter arrived in Sydney, Australia, for a scheduled port visit Oct. 24 ahead of their participation in bilateral exercises with the Royal Australian Navy (RAN)...

U.S. Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Yokosuka, Government of Japan, Japanese Self Defense Force (JSDF) Ground and Maritime branches, U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force tested interoperability Oct. 15 while cementing partnership by participating in Big Rescue Kanagawa...

More than 400 active duty and civilian staff from Naval Health Clinic Lemoore (NHCL) joined millions of others around the world on Oct. 19 when they participated in the annual earthquake drill – the Great ShakeOut...

ROK Sonwonil-class submarine ROKS Jeong Ji (SS 073) arrives at U.S. Naval Base Guam for Silent Shark 2023. The U.S. and Republic of Korea (ROK) navies completed the biennial combined theater anti-submarine warfare exercise Silent Shark in the vicinity of Guam, Oct. 22...

United States Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Okinawa hosted RDML Darin K. Via as he wrapped up his first tour to the Naval Medical Forces Pacific (NMFP) region as Acting Surgeon General. Accompanying Via is Navy Medicine’s highest ranking enlisted leader, Force Master Chief,...

Pacific Partnership 2023 has concluded its mission stop in Papua New Guinea from a closing ceremony hosted at the Japanese Memorial Park on Wewak Hill, Oct. 20...

The Acting United States Navy Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Darin K. Via, visited United States Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Command (USNMRTC) Yokosuka’s Naval Hospital Yokosuka and Branch Health Clinic Iwakuni to engage with the dedicated medical professionals serving in the region. The...

Cmdr. Jamal Smyth, NR Commander, Naval Forces Japan (CNFJ) Dallas-Fort Worth Chief of Staff, was part of a team of over 50 Reserve Sailors who recently traveled to Japan for Citadel Pacific (CP) 23. As one of three major exercises or rehearsals the NR CNFJ Enterprise supports annually, NR CNFJ/CNRJ...