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USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: April 23, 2018

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Marines Need 360-Degree Evals

By Major William Schick, U.S. Marine Corps
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THE LEADER'S BOOKSHELF by Adm. James Stavridis, USN (Ret.)

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U.S. & Japan Can Counter Chinese A2/AD By Captain Takuya Shimodaira, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force

Childhood Adversity Impacts the Corps

New findings suggest that challenging and traumatic experiences during formative years may lead to harmful outcomes as adults. Identifying at-risk...

The Navy Is Unprepared for Analog War

Know Your Enemy. Know Yourself.

To better understand the environment, reduce adversary surprise, and improve performance, the Navy’s maritime operations centers need a...

Nuclear SWOs Are Ready to Fight

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51 Years Later, Fallen Vietnam Marine Honored With Silver Star

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. – With a Marine down and several dozen heavily-armed enemy fighters...

Navy Accepts Initial Delivery of Zumwalt-class DDG Michael Monsoor

The Navy accepted the hull, mechanical and electrical (HM&E) delivery of the Zumwalt-class...

SASC Confirms Davidson Nomination as Next PACOM Commander

The Senate Armed Services Committee voted to confirm Adm. Phil Davidson as the next commander of...

Navy Considering Command Ship Mission for EPFs In Western Pacific

KUALA LUMPUR — The U.S. Navy’s Logistics Group Western Pacific/Task Force 73 is looking at...

Marines Zero In On Requirements for Future MUX Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

THE PENTAGON – The Marine Corps has refined its vision for a large sea-based unmanned aerial...

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A Promise Kept

UPDATE: The wreckage of USS Helena (CL-50), the WWII-era St. Louis-class cruiser that survived the Japanese...

On Our Scope

The admiral “had some maddening habits,” one of his staff officers recalled. “He would play golf all the afternoon then return,...

As I Recall - 'We Gave a Tremendous Amount to Britain'

‘We Gave a Tremendous Amount to Britain’

Baldwin, for many years the military editor of The New York Times,...

In Contact

Fiasco in the Barents Sea

George Walker

Bluejacket's Manual - From Kamikazes to Tridents

Missiles have been used militarily since World War II and are a major component of modern naval weaponry. Rockets have been in use...

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Female Navy Recruits Get First 'Dixie Cup' Hats at Boot Camp

The Navy's Recruit Training Command at Great Lakes Illinois marked another milestone in efforts to make uniforms more gender-specific Monday when fema...

China aims to prepare military for battle by ending paid contract work

China has ordered its armed forces to end all paid outside work within three years as part of a push to make the world's largest standing military mor...

Navy: 8 Sailors Aboard Carrier USS Eisenhower Hurt During Landing

Eight sailors were injured aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower during an aircraft landing off Virginia's coast, the Navy said....

U.S., South Korea stage assault drill; North threatens to wipe out enemies

U.S. and South Korean troops staged a big amphibious landing exercise on Saturday, storming simulated North Korean beach defenses. ...

Marine Corps Wants Funding to Improve Security at Recruiting Centers

Ten months after a gunman opened fire in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Corps is still working to bolster the security of its recruiting officers....

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Fighting the Future AirSea Battle

Establishing air-support operations centers at sea is the key to defeating potential dynamic maritime threats.Uproar 11, a flight of two F/A-18E Super...

Expanding the Non-Kinetic Warfare Arsenal

To meet the challenges and threats of the information age, the Navy is realizing that cyberspace means a lot more than just the Internet.The definitio...

Oceans - Race to the Bottom of the Sea—Seven Miles Deep

In 2010 three groups announced plans to develop and send a manned submersible to the deepest place in the World Ocean, the almost seven-miles-down &ld...

The Transformation (Again!) of the Surface Navy

In the 1980s, the Tomahawk cruise missile expanded the surface Navy’s role; in the 2000s, new technologies continue to enhance surface warfare&r...

Maximizing Minimum Manning

The Navy can get more from less. Using fewer but better-prepared engineers will cut costs and improve readiness. The key is in the training.Few days p...

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Restructure the Coast Guard Reserves into Support Roles

The time has come to examine and consider restructuring the role of Coast Guard Reserves within the service. Currently, there is not enough time...

On Midrats 22 April 2018- Episode 433: Reform, Readiness and the Navy’s Path Ahead, with Dr. James Holmes

Please join us at 5pm EDT on 22 April 2018 for Midrats Episode 433: Reform, Readiness and the Navy’s Path Ahead, with Dr. James Holmes How...

Cheer Up Admiral Sims!! There Still is No Naval War College

In the May—June 1916 issue of Naval Institute Proceedings, then-Captain William S. Sims, U.S. Navy, wrote an article titled, “Cheer Up!! There is...

Et tu Vanuatu?

Last week saw a rather interesting rash of articles of alarm and concern that, well beyond the South China Sea, that China was building a “...

Why I Sanded Down The Best Looking Jet in the Navy

*Editor’s note: This blog post is the text of a speech given by a commander to his squadron on the occasion of the “retiring” of...

Naval History Blog

John Paul Jones and the North Channel Naval Duel

Dear reader, have you heard of John Paul Jones? Prior to working at the Naval Institute, I would have an easier time discussing Davey Jones than...

Side Glances at Operation Crossroads

One of the benefits of digitized archives are the ability to call up pieces of the past that are physically apart from each other and see them all...

Cats in the Sea Services

Sailors and cats have a special relationship that dates back thousands of years. It is likely that the ancient Egyptians were the first seafarers...

Seaplanes: The End (of the beginning)

By the end of the war, the Navy had a number of advanced seaplane designs in the works – the JRM Mars and H-4 Hercules, the Spruce Goose, in...

World War II Submarine Commanders

The United States Naval Institute Oral History Archive features the reminiscences of the legendary Captain Slade D. Cutter. Cutter turned down a...

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Proceedings Magazine - June 2017 Vol. 143/6/1,372

Recent Honorary and Memorial Gifts Gifts of support to the Naval Institute have been made in the name of the following: In honor of: A. Denis Clift, by Keith Hahn Jennifer Grove, by Robert Rose, DDS LCDR Robert B. Leet, USNR (Ret.), by Tracy Jaquier...