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Brian Deters, a native of Teutopolis, was provided the Navy Superior Civilian Service Award and bidden fair winds and following seas during a Surface Combat Systems Training Command’s (SCSTC) retirement

Times of San Diego sought details from Navy public affairs officials and a local Navy expert to understand his career path. They raised many questions.

Teutopolis, IL-(Effingham Radio)-Mr. Brian Deters, a native of Teutopolis, Ill., was provided the Navy Superio...

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NAVAL BASE SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The eyes of a half-dozen crew of Littoral Combat Ship USS Jackson (LCS-6) were staring at computer displays, tracking contacts and consulting manuals in the warship’s dimmed pilot house as the bridge watch team guided the ship through foggy waters. However, Jackson wasn’t at sea. The gold crew members of […]

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US Navy SAN DIEGO – Capt. Jon Grant, officer in charge, turned over command of Center for Surface Combat Systems (CSCS) Det West to Capt. Brandon Bryan, commanding officer of CSCS’ Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center (FASW), April 30. Grant will retire from the U.S. Navy after 38 years of honorable service, Oct. 1, 2021. A ceremony was not held but an official turnover was conducted by Capt. Dave Stoner, commanding officer, CSCS. “When you look at Det West’s accomplishments s...

USS America (LHA 6) found an inventive way to do it. For the Navy’s only forward-deployed amphibious ready group (ARG), the best way to save time, money and resources was to think outside the box: instead of sending Sailors to school in the continental U.S., America brought the school to the Sailors. “Overcoming layered challenges is part and parcel of being a forward-deployed naval force. It’s what we do, and that’s just what we’ve done here,” said Capt. Greg Baker, Amphibious Squa...

In the wake of tragedy, the US surface fleet is all in on simulators January 15 Capt. John J. Cummings, the carrier Gerald R. Fords commanding officer, center, checks the ships course during a simulated transit in a navigation trainer. (U.S. Navy photo by MC2 Ryan Seelbach) WASHINGTON — It has been nearly four years since one of the worst years in modern U.S. Navy history, when a string of accidents and collisions sidelined three ships and resulted in the deaths of 17 sailors. But the s...

Johnston (DD-557). 1 Declaring to his new crew and guests, “This is going to be a fighting ship,” he motioned toward the bunting-draped destroyer and added, “I intend to go in harm’s way, and anyone who doesn’t want to go along had better get off right now.” He continued resolutely, “I will never again retreat from an enemy force.”  In recognition of his valiant spirit and heroism in fighting his ship until she sank in the Battle off Samar on 25 October 1944, Evans posthumously...