Category: Defense

Source: United States Navy

Recruit Training Command (RTC) returned to in-person guest attendance at graduation for the first time in 17 months, and with that came the return of performing divisions, sometimes better known as 900 divisions.

Performing divisions are comprised of recruits in training who were selected upon arrival to boot camp to assist graduations. They are divided into staff divisions, state flag divisions, and triple threat divisions, which is comprised of the band, choir and drill team.

On Aug. 13, Division 901 was the first staff division graduating after performing in Midway Ceremonial Drill Hall for the past three weeks.

Source: United States Navy

NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. – The San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) departed Naval Station Norfolk to provide humanitarian assistance and disaster relief to Haiti in support of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) led mission, Aug. 17.

Source: United States Navy

For the first time in 17 months, joyful cheers echoed through Midway Ceremonial Drill Hall at Recruit Training Command (RTC). RTC resumed boot camp graduation Aug. 13, for a limited number of family members and friends. Guest attendance was suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and to prevent any potential spread of COVID-19 to recruits, staff and their families.

Source: United States Navy

WASHINGTON – Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) awarded a $1.7-billion construction project Aug. 13 to expand and reconfigure a dry dock complex at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Kittery, Maine, to increase the shipyard’s capacity to maintain, modernize, and repair the Navy’s attack submarines and return them to the fleet on time.

Source: United States Navy

ATLANTIC OCEAN – Navy Expeditionary Combat Command’s Expeditionary Mine Countermeasures (ExMCM) Company 2-3, attached to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 6, EOD Group 2, embarked San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship, USS Arlington (LPD 24), Aug. 3-9, to take part in the U.S. Navy’s Large-Scale Exercise 2021 (LSE 2021).