http://www.gearadrift.com Navy Humor, Navy Jokes, and Satire about Life in the Navy Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:58:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), Adm. Gary Roughead announced his selection of Fleet Master Chief (FLTCM) (SS/SW) Rick D. West, as the 12th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) in NAVADMIN 349, dated Dec. 5. West is currently serving as Fleet Master Chief, U.S. Fleet ... http://www.gearadrift.com/news/master-chief-rick-west-to-be-new-mcpon/ Additional analysis needs to be done before the Navy makes a decision on whether to move away from DDG-1000 and restart the DDG-51 production line, according to a top Pentagon official. "I think there's [a] substantial amount of additional analytical work to be done," John Young, the Pentagon's acquisition chief, told ... http://www.gearadrift.com/news/more-analysis-needed-on-fate-of-ddg-1000/ SAN DIEGO -- The Navy will name its latest Zumwalt-class destroyer for a SEAL from Orange County who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor, the secretary of the Navy announced Wednesday. Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor, 25, was killed during a firefight in Ramadi, Iraq, in 2006 when he ... http://www.gearadrift.com/news/destroyer-to-bear-seals-name/ I've got to give some link-love to Sean from Doc in the Box. For those of you who don't know Sean, he's a corpsman 1st class who's been to the dessert at least three times in the past 5 years or so. He's not exactly typical Navy, being attached with ... http://www.gearadrift.com/navy/docs-mcas-miramar-airshow-pictures/ $6.5 million sponsorship with NASCAR team drafts racing superstar to boost enlistment In about two weeks, dozens of young adults from across the country will head to Naval Station Great Lakes for a muscle-punishing boot camp and a meeting with their celebrity "mentor" -- NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. The racing superstar ... http://www.gearadrift.com/news/navy-and-nascar-more-enlistments/ Congress and the Navy are battling over the fate of this new class of destroyer. Read the Full Article. http://www.gearadrift.com/news/ddg-1000/ I've been getting a lot of traffic again lately to a few pages on Navy Advancement Results with most of the traffic coming from searches like "When do Navy advancement results come out?", "Navy Advancement Results for cycle XXX", and "E-x Navy Advancement results". First of all, c'mon people! ... http://www.gearadrift.com/navy/advancement/historical-navy-advancement-result-tracker/ WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The first ship in the Navy's new Littoral Combat Ship class, the future USS Freedom (LCS 1), began Builder's Trials on Lake Michigan July 28. LCS is a fast, agile, focused-mission ship designed to defeat asymmetric "anti-access" threats such as mines, quiet diesel submarines and fast surface ... http://www.gearadrift.com/news/uss-freedom-lcs1/ WASHINGTON--Navy shipbuilding executives struggled Thursday to explain plans to abandon a destroyer program that the service's top brass and the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer described as vital just a few months ago. Changing threats at sea, including increased deployments of diesel-powered submarines by potential U.S. adversaries, drove the service's move to ... http://www.gearadrift.com/news/congress-and-navy-battle-over-fate-of-destroyer-class/ Just days after their son was killed by a Taliban rocket while serving in Afghanistan, Steve and Joy Retmier went to Downey Savings and Loan in Hemet to deposit two government bereavement checks to help pay for his funeral. But once inside, they said, a teller put a hold on the ... http://www.gearadrift.com/news/bank-puts-hold-on-check-adds-to-families-grief/