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‘For the Benefit of All’: Victor J. Glover and Space
This motto has extended to the implementation of diversity and inclusion.
The motto of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is “For the Benefit of All.” This motto has extended to the implementation of diversity and inclusion. From its inception, African Americans played prominent roles in the space program. Many of these figures’ contributions were hidden from the public eye. Some of the most prominent figures included Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughn and Mary Jackson whose stories were recently dramatized in the film
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Everything an F/A-18 Fighter Pilot Wears in the Cockpit
From the HGU-68/P tactical helmet to the steel-toed, ejection-safe boots. Dan KitwoodGetty Images
Like motorcyclists, U.S. Navy pilots “dress for the slide, not the ride.” Their gear is meant for frost, flames, and flotation. Even the very first pilot to operate from a ship carried safety equipment: Eugene Ely, attempting his landing on the deck of the armored cruiser USS
Pennsylvania in 1911, took the controls of his Curtiss Pusher wearing a leather football helmet, bug-eyed motoring goggles, and a makeshift life vest fashioned from bicycle inner tubes.
By WYATT OLSON | STARS AND STRIPES Published: April 15, 2021 A naval aviator with experience in Iraq spanning from Operation Desert Storm in 1990-91 to the more recent Inherent Resolve has been nominated to command the San Diego-based 3rd Fleet, the Defense Department announced Wednesday. If the Senate approves, Rear Adm. Stephen Koehler, currently the deputy commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet in Hawaii, will be promoted to vice admiral as commander of 3rd Fleet, which is responsible for about 50 million square miles of the eastern and northern Pacific Ocean. Its current commander, Vice Adm. Scott Conn, has held the position since September 2019.
4 NAS SIGONELLA, Italy – The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKE CSG) is a multiplatform team of ships, aircraft and more than 5,000 Sailors, capable of carrying out a wide variety of missions around the globe. It brings multi-mission capable platforms to the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations with strike, ballistic missile defense, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities. Last March, the IKE was the first aircraft carrier to conduct a logistics and maintenance period (LMP) at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Souda Bay, Greece, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
During IKE’s LMP and a replenishment-at-sea (RAS), logistics teams assigned to Naval Supply Systems Command Fleet Logistics Center Sigonella (NAVSUP FLCSI) joined efforts with multiple NSA Souda Bay departments and tenant commands to deliver critical parts, mail and provisions.