Lieutenant Claire Thatcher, an aviator from the Merlins of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 3, flies her MH-60S Seahawk/Knighthawk over the Grand Canyon in April 2024.

Fleet Replacement Squadron

Sometimes known as a “RAG”—readiness air group—the FRS is responsible for training pilots and aircrew in their specific aircraft after flight training and before joining the fleet.

June 2024
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Future Frigate Still in the Future

The future Constellation (FFG-62), first of the Navy’s new frigate class, celebrated its keel-laying in a formal ceremony on 12 April 2024. That’s the good news.

Brian O’Rourke
June 2024
U.S. Marine Corps ACVs from Battalion Landing Team 1/5, 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit, return to the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD-49) during Exercise Balikatan 2024.

Balikatan 2024

The exercise—whose name comes from the Tagalog word for shoulder-to-shoulder—ran from 22 April to 10 May.

May 2024
container ship

Unpacking Merchant Shipping

Commercial ships have continually evolved and expanded to enable more efficient transport.

Joe Greco
February 2024
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Six Moments, Plus One

The Naval Institute’s periodicals have had outsized effects on numerous occasions. Here are six noteworthy moments for Proceedings and one for sister publication Naval History.

October 2023