16 March 2021 Roosevelt Earns Bloodhound Award USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) was recently awarded the 2021 anti-submarine warfare (ASW) Bloodhound Award representing the best in the Atlantic Fleet. The Naval Surface Forces award is presented annually to one Pacific Fleet and one Atlantic Fleet ship for exceptional performance in the ASW mission area...
16 March 2021 Winston S. Churchill Leads the Charge, Creates New Patch Celebrating Bridge Experience More than half way through a deployment to the 5th Fleet area of operations (AOO), the USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) crew has traveled 50,000 miles and gained a significant amount of underway experience...
11 December 2020 USS Mitscher Holds Change of Command Cmdr. Thomas McCandless relieved Cmdr. Matthew Cox as commanding officer of USS Mitscher (DDG 57) today during a small, onboard change of command ceremony at Naval Base Norfolk...
13 November 2020 USS Oscar Austin Holds Change of Command In a socially distanced change-of-command ceremony, Cmdr. Matthew I. Krull relieved Cmdr. Wesley A. Brown as commanding officer of USS Oscar Austin (DDG 79) today at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia...
13 November 2020 USS Bulkeley Chief Engineer Is Engineer of the Quarter The American Society of Naval Engineers selected Lt. Eric Fields, chief engineer aboard USS Bulkeley (DDG 84), as its Engineer of the Quarter Nov. 12...
13 November 2020 USS Gravely Holds Change of Command Cmdr. Corey Odom relieved Cmdr. Michael O’Reilly as commanding officer of the guided-missile destroyer USS Gravely (DDG 107) during a change-of-command ceremony onboard the ship, Nov. 13. The presiding officer was Capt. James Kenny, commander, Destroyer Squadron 28...
30 October 2020 USS Cole Holds Change of Command Cmdr. J. Vincent Libasci, III, relieved Cmdr. Edward Pledger as USS Cole (DDG 67) commanding officer Oct. 30, in front of special guests and crewmembers at Naval Station Norfolk...
30 October 2020 USS Cole Holds Change of Command Cmdr. J. Vincent Libasci, III, relieved Cmdr. Edward Pledger as USS Cole (DDG 67) commanding officer Oct. 30, in front of special guests and crewmembers at Naval Station Norfolk...
12 October 2020 Cole Holds Ceremony on 20th Anniversary of Terrorist Attack USS Cole (DDG 67) hosted a pierside ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk Oct. 12, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on Cole, to honor the Sailors killed and to celebrate the heroism of the ship’s crew...
08 October 2020 Cole Sailor creates 20th anniversary logo The anniversary of the attack on the USS Cole is upon us. Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, marks 20 years since the terrorist attack that claimed 17 brave Sailors and injured 39 others in port Aden, Yemen. ...