The 2012 Sailor of the Year winners were meritoriously advanced to Chief Petty Officer during a ceremony held at the Navy Memorial May 16. Vice Chief of Naval Operations (VCNO) Adm. Mark Ferguson was the guest speaker at the pinning ceremony hosted by the Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON)(AW/NAC) Mike Stevens. Electronics [...]
Fleet Cyber Command named Master Chief Cryptologic Technician Collection Matt Bouchard as the 2012 recipient of the “On-the-Roof Gang” (OTRG) Award. The award, which is named after the original Navy cryptologists who trained in a specially constructed block house on the roof of the old Navy Department building in Washington D.C., is given to a [...]
An officer on board the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68) is the Navy’s first female Aircraft Launch and Recovery Equipment (ALRE) Boatswain (Bos’n). The Navy’s first female ALRE Bos’n, Ens. Kimberlee D. Hazle, of Valley View, Texas, checked on board Nimitz in March 2013. Hazle joined the Navy when she was 18 years old [...]
On Friday, the Australian Military Representative to NATO and the EU, Rear Admiral Allan Du Toit, attended a service at the Naval Memorial Commemorative Hall in Laboe, Germany, to help launch a display honouring Royal Australian Navy Petty Officer Ronald Allan Heffernan MacDonald DSM, who was lost at sea following enemy action in 1942. The [...]
Sailors aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) participated in a self-defense course April 12 as part of Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. According to Gunnery Sgt. Michael Connors, a self-defense course can help individuals learn how to effectively react if they are ever assaulted. “Today we’re teaching Sailors basic [...]
A Portchester sailor has been presented with a medal for 17 years of service to the Royal Navy while serving on the icebreaker HMS Protector. In an unusual setting, Leading Seaman Scott Black was given the medal standing on an iceberg off Detaille Island on the edge of Antarctica – one of the most remote [...]
More than 100 students at Bennie Dover Jackson Middle School in New London traded an hour of classroom instruction for time well spent with an acoustic intelligence (ACINT) specialist, as part of the school’s ongoing STEM efforts, Feb. 26. Master Chief Sonar Technician (Submarines) (SS) Xavier Harris, an ACINT specialist, discussed his experiences, his career [...]
The US Coast Guard, Navy, Ocean Safety and Honolulu Fire Department are searching for a Navy sailor near Kaena Point, Oahu, Wednesday. Coast Guard Sector Honolulu was notified that a Hawaii-based sailor was reported missing after he became separated from other members of his command during an open ocean swim training evolution off Kaena Point [...]
Leading Diver (LDR) Joshua Kauika, who has just been named Sailor of the Year for 2012, wanted a challenging career and joined the Navy straight from Wanganui High School in 2006 knowing he would get just that. Six years into a career in which he has been described as “inspirational”, “exemplary” and “the epitome of [...]
Leading Seaman Freddie Noakes stepped up into the role normally occupied by a Lieutenant during board HMS Liverpool’s deployment on operations on Libya, when the ship was providing naval gunfire support from the sea into Misrata during the Libyan conflict. He received his Joint Commanders Commendation at a ceremony in Plymouth Thursday with his parents [...]
