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The speed China has expanded its military has changed the way the Navy and Marine Corps must approach training, service leadership said during a panel at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference Tuesday. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger and Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday took the stage to discuss how the […]

After losing an amphibious warship to a fire, the Navy will elevate the head of service safety to a two-star billet and create a new oversight board meant to improve fire safety throughout the fleet. In response to findings from a Navy investigation into the fire aboard the former USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD-6) and multiple […]

5 SAN DIEGO – Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) returned to San Diego, after 15 years serving in the Forward Deployed Naval Forces (FDNF) in Japan, July 22. Mustin executed a change of station to the United States to conduct a planned depot modernization period and will be replaced by Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114), who will depart their homeport of Everett, Washington. “Planned maintenance availabili...

EVERETT, Wash. - Naval Station Everett was designated as the Navy's future homeport for the initial ships of the next generation of guided missile...

SAN DIEGO — Almost 15 years ago, the U.S. Navy christened the first of a new class of warship designed to fight the Global War on Terror. The so-called littoral combat ships would be fast and agile, operating close to shore against missile-firing boats and small submarines. Today, the Navy has a new mission — or rather, has returned to its old mission, facing off against more capable warships deployed by China and Russia. And the service is still trying to figure out what to do with its $1...

6 Rear Adm. Christopher Alexander, a native of Key West, Fla., assumed command of Naval Surface and Mine Warfighting Development Center (SMWDC), headquartered in San Diego, May 10th without a change of command ceremony due to his predecessor being transferred ahead of Alexander’s arrival to fill an urgent operational role. Prior to SMWDC, Alexander was most recently the Commanding Officer of Surface Warfare Schools Command located onboard Naval Station Newport, R.I. Alexander ...

US Navy MOBILE, Alabama – The future USS Mobile (LCS 26), the U.S. Navy’s newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), will be commissioned May 22, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. (CT) in Mobile, Alabama. 200924-N-XX123-1001 GULF OF MEXICO – The future Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Mobile (LCS 26) conducts sea trials. USS Mobile is set to be commissioned on 22 May in Mobile, Ala. Due to ongoing public health and safety concerns related to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-...

Littoral combat ship USS Mobile to be commissioned in May By (0) The future USS Mobile, the Navys 13th Independence-class littoral combat ship, will be commissioned on May 27, 2021. Photo courtesy of Austal USA April 21 (UPI) -- The future USS Mobile, the U.S. Navys next Independence-class littoral combat ship, will be commissioned on May 27, the Navy announced on Wednesday. The ceremony, restricted because of COVID-19 concerns but scheduled to be livestreamed, will be held in Mobile, Ala., w...

VIRIN: 200924-N-XX123-1001 Due to ongoing public health and safety concerns related to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the ceremony will take place in compliance with Department of Defense, Center for Disease Control, state public health, state, and local government guidelines and restrictions. The event will be livestreamed to offer maximum viewing by the general public. “The Mobile crew worked hard to prepare their ship for this moment, and they wi...

Introduction It is entirely possible that the enormous superstructure of the Navy is actually working against maintaining an effective Fleet. We seem to be mired in a time in which counterproductive institutional incentives and dynamics have developed naturally in the absence of an existential threat to focus our efforts, such as a great power competitor. One of these unhelpful dynamics has been the explosion in the numbers of flag officers. A cursory examination of the historical record makes ...