John Nowell News Today

The Lake County Women’s Civic Club (LCWCC) had another informative and interesting meeting in January.  The guest speaker for the meeting was John Nowell of the Konocti Fire Save Council. 

The task force designated to find improvements in how the Navy thinks about diversity rolled out more than 50 recommendations on how to make the service fairer and more inclusive in a report released on Wednesday. The final report from Task Force One Navy lays out specific, granular changes to how the service recruits and […]

Some Black sailors say the Navy's shaving policies discriminate against them due to a skin condition over which which they have no control.

A sprawling, multiyear effort to modernize sailor HR systems has instead led to lots of pain in the fleet.

Among the many peculiarities that come with naval service, the Navy's practice of naming undesignated sailors stands out for its direct and potentially negative impact.

The number of at-sea billets the Navy needs to fill continues to grow as the service works to incentivize sailors to take the jobs, according to the latest numbers from the Navy Personnel Command. The Navy needs to fill about 9,000 at-sea billets, Cmdr. Richard Chernitzer, a spokesperson for Naval Personnel Command, said in a […]

The Department of Defense (DoD) has been in “potential noncompliance” with standards for reviewing and communicating denials of ...

The admiral in charge of the Pentagon’s joint force development office has been nominated to lead U.S. naval forces in Europe and Africa, according to a Wednesday announcement from the Department of Defense. Vice Adm. Stuart Munsch, the director of the Joint Force Development, J-7, on the Joint Staff, is nominated to lead U.S. Naval […]

The Navy’s latest budget proposal will cut more than a thousand sailors from the sea service, a reflection of a difficult recruiting environment that defense officials predict will only get worse. The Navy should make its recruiting goals for active-duty sailors this year, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told Congress on Wednesday. But […]

A career surface warfare officer has been tapped to serve as the second highest-ranking officer in the Navy and the second female four-star in the service’s history, the Pentagon announced on Tuesday. Vice Adm. Lisa Franchetti, if confirmed by the Senate, will succeed current Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. William Lescher, who is expected […]