27 August 2021 USS Gettysburg Crew Completes Battlefield Preservation Projects Visitors to the Gettysburg National Military Park were greeted with the unusual sight of camouflage-clad Sailors working alongside uniformed park rangers and staff there Aug. 19-21. The Sailors were part of a group of 64 crewmembers assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64)
25 August 2021 Winston S. Churchill Enters Rare Dry Dock Period For the first time in 10 years, USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) entered a dry dock for a Mayport maintenance period Aug. 20. The depot modernization period (DMP), began Aug. 9 with the ship being dry-docked. This will allow for combat systems, lethality, and engineering enhancements to take place
19 August 2021 USS Arlington Departs Norfolk for Haiti Disaster Relief Mission The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) departed Naval Station Norfolk to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to Haiti in support of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAIDled mission, Aug. 17. The mission forms part of an
16 August 2021 SURFLANT Waterfront Self-Sufficiency Symposium Concludes After a three-day slate of self-help lectures, discussions and events, the Naval Surface Force Atlantic (SURFLANT) Waterfront Self-Sufficiency Symposium concluded at Naval Station Norfolk, Aug. 13. The objective of the event, which began Aug. 11, was to educate and enable Sailors to use
15 August 2021 USS Whidbey Island Takes Part in Mass Casualty Drill for Large Scale Exercise 2021 Sailors assigned to the dock landing ship USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41) hosted a mass casualty drill as part of Large Scale Exercise (LSE) 2021 while pierside at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek, Aug. 14-15.The drill, which started with a simulated helicopter crash and resulting casualties, took
04 August 2021 USS James E. Williams Awarded Navy Unit Commendation On behalf of the Secretary of the Navy, Rear Adm. Brendan McLane, commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic, presented the crew of the guided-missile destroyer USS James E. Williams (DDG 95) a Navy Unit Commendation at Naval Station Norfolk, Aug. 2. The ship’s Commanding Officer, Cmdr. Ameian
04 August 2021 USS Donald Cook Independently Completes Essential Repairs to Starboard Shaft on Patrol Stop Overseas Earlier this year, the USS Donald Cook (DDG 75) crew independently completed essential repairs to its starboard shaft while in port Souda Bay, Greece. While on its final patrol in the Mediterranean Sea as a Forward Deployed Naval Forces – Europe (FDNF-E) ship, Donald Cook experienced a casualty to
03 August 2021 San Jacinto Recognized with Navy Unit Commendation On behalf of the Secretary of the Navy, Rear Adm. Brendan McLane, commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic, presented the crew of the guided-missile cruiser USS San Jacinto (CG 56) a Navy Unit Commendation during a ceremony aboard the ship at Naval Station Norfolk, Aug. 2.
03 August 2021 SURFLANT to Host Waterfront Self-Sufficiency Symposium Naval Surface Force Atlantic (SURFLANT) will host a Waterfront Self-Sufficiency Symposium at Naval Station Norfolk, Aug. 11-13.
30 July 2021 SURFLANT Announces New S-MOC Director Rear Adm. Brendan McLane, commander, Naval Surface Force Atlantic (SURFLANT), appointed Lt. Cmdr. Carleigh Gregory as new director of the Surface Maintenance Operations Center (S-MOC), at Naval Station Norfolk, July 28. SURFLANT stood up S-MOC last month as a cross-organizational team with various