05 October 2020 Ninth 'Air Boss' Assumes Command of Naval Air Forces SAN DIEGO -- Vice Adm. Kenneth Whitesell relieved Vice Adm. DeWolfe Miller III to become the Commander, Naval Air Forces and Commander, Naval Air Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet during a ceremony aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) at Naval Air Station North Island, Oct. 2.The event was also a...
04 November 2014 F-35C Completes First Arrested Landing Aboard Aircraft Carrier The Navy made aviation history Nov. 3 as an F-35C Lightning II carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter conducted its first arrested landing aboard an aircraft carrier off the coast of San Diego. Navy test pilot Cmdr. Tony Wilson landed F-35C test aircraft CF-03 at 12:18 p.m. aboard USS Nimitz's (CVN...
03 June 2022 Naval Aviation History: The Battle of Midway PENSACOLA, Florida -- As May rolled into June in 1942, Japan’s naval forces stretched across the Pacific. They had seized Malaysia, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines, and the northern coast of Papua/New Guinea.Intelligence provided by U.S. Navy cryptologists had allowed the U.S. to...
24 January 2017 China Lake Scientists Awarded Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Project of the Year CHINA LAKE, California -- In 2012, Dr. Benjamin Harvey and his team at the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, along with collaborators from the Air Force Research Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base and the Naval Research Laboratory, were awarded a four-year grant from the Strategic...
13 August 2018 Naval Aviation Enterprise Boots on the Ground Complete Visit to FDNF in Japan NAVAL AIR FACILITY ATSUGI, Japan -- After visiting Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Iwakuni earlier this week, Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE) leadership made visits to the forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) and Naval Air Facility (NAF) Atsugi in support of the Boots on the...
30 December 2019 Aviation Leaders Engage Sustainment Teams in West Coast 'Boots on Ground' Naval Air Stations Lemoore and North Island, California (NNS) (NNS) -- The Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE) hosted a two-day "Boots on Ground" (BoG) event here Dec. 17-18 to follow up on more than a year of implementing the Naval Sustainment System-Aviation (NSS-A)...
05 April 2016 Navy's Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center Oversees Deployment of Wave Energy Conversion Device KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii (NNS) -- Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Engineering and Expeditionary Warfare Center managed the deployment of the Fred. Olsen Ltd. "Lifesaver" Wave Energy Conversion device to the Navy's Wave Energy Test Site, March 22-25. NAVFAC EXWC established and still manages the...
26 June 2017 Navy Salvage Divers Clear Submerged Wreckage from Guam's Waters during Diving Exercise 2017 ASAN, Guam (NNS) -- Salvage divers from nine Western Pacific Naval Symposium (WPNS) nations and Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Marianas environmentalists removed submerged wreckage around Guam, June 12-15, during Diving Exercise (DIVEX) 2017.The team safely removed two submerged...
13 July 2017 Guam Command Marianas Engineers Partner with Society of Military Engineers Guam Post MANGILAO, Guam -- Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Marianas and the Society of Military Engineers (SAME) Guam Post hosted their first science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) camp, July 8. "These young students represent our future," said NAVFAC Marianas Commanding...
21 May 2019 NAVFAC Marianas and 36th Civil Engineering Squadron Begin Construction on Medical Training Facility for Air Force Reserve in Guam YIGO, Guam -- The 36th Civil Engineering Squadron held a groundbreaking event, May 17, to begin the construction of a $4.14 million medical training facility at Andersen Air Force Base (AAFB) in Guam.This one-story, 495-square-meter facility, is the first for the 624th Aerospace Medicine (AMDF)...