The U.S. Navy will be joined by navies from Canada, France, Germany, Iceland, NATO, Norway, and the United Kingdom for the Dynamic Mongoose 2020 exercise in the northern Atlantic over the next two weeks, the Navy announced in a statement. The NATO Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) exercise will take place from June 29 until July…
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Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday met with his Japanese counterpart this week via video teleconference to advance the relationship between the two navies, the Navy said in a statement. Adm. Hiroshi Yamamura, Chief of Maritime Staff, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), joined Gilday Thursday to reaffirm the two nations’ long-standing partnership. “Our navies’…
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With the latest edition of AUSN’s Navy magazine now out and in mailboxes soon, we’ll be featuring excerpts from the magazine on the website on a regular basis. Here’s an article telling the story of two unheralded but important Navy ships, “Freshwater Warriors: The Story of Sable and Wolverine.” Click the link or click the…
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The Navy will award contracts to General Dynamics Electric Boat for the first two Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines as soon as the fiscal 2021 budget is approved, according to reports. Defense News reports that the Navy will award $10.4 billion to Electric Boat, including $869 million to complete design work and $9.5 billion for the…
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a familiar term, but a commonly misunderstood one. And most Americans probably don’t know how widespread it is — there are currently an estimated 8 million people in the United States suffered from PTSD, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. That means you probably know someone suffering from it,…
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With the latest edition of AUSN’s Navy magazine now out and in mailboxes soon, we’ll be featuring excerpts from the magazine on the website on a regular basis. Here’s an article highlighting our membership in the TEAM Coalition, “AUSN Joins TEAM Coalition to Tackle Toxic Exposure.” Click the link or click the image below to…
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The Association of the United States Navy is a member of the TEAM Coalition, a group of military and Veterans service organizations (MSO/VSOs) pushing for legislation that will tackle the problem of toxic exposure in the military. On June 16, Sen. Thom Tillis, comedian Jon Stewart, and Derek Fronabarger from the Wounded Warrior Project were…
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The destroyer damaged in a 2017 collision off the coast of Japan that claimed the lives of seven sailors departed this weekend for her homeport in San Diego following more than two years of restoration and modernization. The USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62) collided with the Philippine-flagged container ship MV ACX Crystal on June 17, 2017, about…
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With the latest edition of AUSN’s Navy magazine now out and in mailboxes soon, we’ll be featuring excerpts from the magazine on the website on a regular basis. Here’s the magazine’s feature piece, “From Sailor to Merchant Marine.” Click the link or click the image below to view it.
Aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN-68) and the Nimitz Carrier Strike Group have deployed from San Diego in support of global maritime security operations in the Pacific. The Nimitz left on June 8 following a composite training unit exercise (COMPTUEX) that tested the strike group’s ability to carry out sustained combat operations from the sea. “The…
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