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USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: April 16, 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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Rethinking the Naval Academy Curriculum

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

Proceedings Photo of the Week: 20 April

This week's photo shows sailors competing in a four-man pushup contest at Camp Foster in Okinawa, Japan. U.S. Marine Corps photo by...

Charting the Course: the U.S. Needs an Arctic Fleet

Russia (here the nuclear-powered icebreaker 50 Years of Victory) and many other countries invest a great deal in the Arctic. The United States should...

Tactical Nuclear Weapons Are Back

The United States and the Navy need to make changes to confront the threat. In the wake of February’s release of the Department of Defense...

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Navy, Marine Leadership Looking at LPD Flight II Missiles, Additional Virginia-class Buys

CAPITOL HILL – Navy and Marine Corps leaders are mulling if and how to up-gun the San Antonio-...

USS Bonhomme Richard Returns To U.S. After 6 Years in Forward Deployed Naval Forces Japan

After six years serving as the forward-deployed flagship of Amphibious Force 7th Fleet,...

USS Portland to Commission This Weekend in Portland, Ore.

The newest San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, USS Portland (LPD-27), will be...

Navy to Release Arctic Strategy This Summer, Will Include Blue Water Arctic Operations

CAPITOL HILL — The Navy will release a new Arctic strategy this summer to reflect the...

CNO: Navy to Restore Readiness Levels by 2022 After Years of Insufficient Funding

CAPITOL HILL — The Navy anticipates returning to a ready state by 2022, top leadership...

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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,...

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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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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...

Verifying Before Restoring the Trust in Shipboard Training

Following U.S. Fleet Forces Command’s “Comprehensive Review of Surface Fleet Incidents” of 2017’s collisions and grounding, recommendations for...

Naval History Blog

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...

No Forgotten Fronts: From Classrooms to Combat

My college classrooms are always full of veterans. That’s because San Diego is home to half a dozen military installations, including Naval Base...

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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...