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Navy Reserve Struggling to Recruit New Sailors, Emphasizing Benefits

Navy Reserve Struggling to Recruit New Sailors, Emphasizing Benefits

Chief of Navy Reserve, Commander Navy Reserve Force Vice Adm. John Mustin delivers remarks during a Naval Reserve all-hands call at the U.S. Naval Forces Europe and Africa and U.S. Sixth Fleet (NAVEUR/NAVAF/SIXHFLT) headquarters, Feb. 9, 2023. US Navy Photo

This story has been updated to clarify comments from Vice Adm. John Mustin.

The Navy Reserve is emphasizing benefits from medical care to transferability of education benefits to commissary and exchange privileges to attract exiting active-duty sailors to sign up, Vice Adm. John Mustin said Wednesday. Read More

New Navy Guidance Emphasizes Leadership Responsibilities for Sailor's Mental Health

New Navy Guidance Emphasizes Leadership Responsibilities for Sailor’s Mental Health

Sailors man the rails as USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), returns to Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka, Japan, following its deployment to the western Pacific ocean, Dec. 16, 2022. US Navy Photo

The Navy issued what it is calling a technical manual for Naval leaders to address mental health, starting with laying out how commanders should lead conversations with sailors. Read More

Pentagon Not Pursuing Separate Reentry Path For Vaccine Separated Service Members

Pentagon Not Pursuing Separate Reentry Path For Vaccine Separated Service Members

Lance Cpl. Carlos Benitez, assigned to the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit, receives a COVID-19 booster shot aboard the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) on March 23, 2022. US Navy Photo

The Department of Defense will not issue a separate policy to bring back service members who were separated for failing to get vaccinated against COVID-19, a top Pentagon personnel chief testified to Congress on Tuesday. Read More

Pilot Course Aims to Build Marines’ Skills as Communicators for the Future Fight

Pilot Course Aims to Build Marines’ Skills as Communicators for the Future Fight

Marines with 9th Communication Battalion, I Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group, trouble shoot a network connection during a certification exercise at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Feb. 27, 2023. US Marine Corps Photo

SAN DIEGO – Expeditionary communicators will be critical to the command and control of small Marine Corps units dispersed across far-flung islands in contested terrain, service officials say. Read More

USS Chancellorsville to be Renamed After Former Slave Who Captured Confederate Ship

USS Chancellorsville to be Renamed After Former Slave Who Captured Confederate Ship

Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) conducts routine underway operations in the South China Sea, Nov. 29, 2022. US Navy Photo

A guided-missile cruiser that was named after a Confederate Civil War victory will be renamed in honor of a former slave who stole a Confederate States Navy ship in South Carolina and delivered it to the Union, the Navy announced in a late Monday statement. Read More

SECNAV Del Toro Says Changes to Immigration Law, Policy Could Help with Shipyard Workforce Shortage

SECNAV Del Toro Says Changes to Immigration Law, Policy Could Help with Shipyard Workforce Shortage

Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro interacts with a sailor aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens (CG-63) during a visit on Feb. 15, 2023. US Navy Photo

ARLINGTON, Va. – Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro suggested changes in immigration laws and policies for visas could open a new avenue to build up the workforce in the nation’s public and private shipyards. Read More

America ARG, Makin Island ARG Will Join Cobra Gold 2023

America ARG, Makin Island ARG Will Join Cobra Gold 2023

An MV-22 Osprey, assigned to Marine Medium Tilt Rotor Squadron (VMM) 362 (Rein.), 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), lands on the flight deck of amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD-8) in the Gulf of Thailand, Feb. 22, 2023. US Navy Photo

The Navy’s two Amphibious Ready Groups (ARG) deployed in the Indo-Pacific – the Makin Island ARG and the America ARG – will participate in major exercises in Thailand and Japan on Monday with the multinational Cobra Gold 2023 exercise in Thailand and the bilateral Iron Fist 23 exercise in Japan. Read More