Tag Archives: CNO Adm. Michael Gilday

Large Scale Exercise 2023 Was Custom Built to Push Fleet to the Limit, Say Planners

Large Scale Exercise 2023 Was Custom Built to Push Fleet to the Limit, Say Planners

Airman Steven Wilcoxson, from Visalia, California, pulls a refueling hose aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) in the Atlantic Ocean on June 23, 2023. U.S. Navy Photo

ABOARD AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER – Fresh from a training exercise off the coast of Virginia, the Navy’s second oldest carrier is getting minor repairs while moored at Naval Station Norfolk, Va. But just below the flight deck of USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69), the staff of Carrier Strike Group 2 was fighting a war in Europe. Read More

VIDEO: VCNO Lisa Franchetti Takes Command of the Navy

VIDEO: VCNO Lisa Franchetti Takes Command of the Navy

Vice Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. Lisa Franchetti, who has been nominated to succeed Gilday as a service chief and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Aug. 14, 2023. DoD Photo

ANNAPOLIS, Md. – In a ceremony at the Naval Academy’s Memorial Hall, retiring Chief of Naval Operations Adm Mike Gilday was relieved by VCNO Adm. Lisa Franchetti. She will now perform the duties of CNO pending confirmation by the Senate amidst an ongoing block of confirmation for flag and general officers. Read More

25,000 Sailors, Marines to Prepare for Global Conflict in Large Scale Exercise 2023

25,000 Sailors, Marines to Prepare for Global Conflict in Large Scale Exercise 2023

Operations Specialist 2nd Class Jeffery Barton, from San Diego, updates a status in the combat information center (CIC) onboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG-64) on June 30, 2023. US Navy Photo

The Navy and Marines are taking a second crack at an exercise that will simulate a massive global conflict and connect the actions from a single sailor at a radar console up through the decisions made by the Secretary of Defense, service officials announced on Monday. Read More

VIDEO: USS Canberra Commissions in Rare Overseas Ceremony

VIDEO: USS Canberra Commissions in Rare Overseas Ceremony

U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard and the Royal Australian Navy ceremonial guard line up for a photo op shortly before the commissioning ceremony for the Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Canberra (LCS-30) in Sydney, Australia July 22, 2023. DoD Photo

SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA – Leaders of the U.S. Navy joined their Australian counterparts on a windy winter day at the ancestral home of the Royal Australian Navy to welcome USS Canberra (LCS-30) to the American fleet. Read More

White House 'Confident' In AUKUS Plan for Australian Nuclear-powered Submarine Fleet

White House ‘Confident’ In AUKUS Plan for Australian Nuclear-powered Submarine Fleet

President Joe Biden greets British Prime Minister Rishi Surnak and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese the AUKUS bilateral meeting in San Diego, Calif, March 13, 2023. DoD Photo

The White House’s senior coordinator for the Indo-Pacific is “confident” that Australia, the United Kingdom and United States can meet the challenge of Canberra fielding its own nuclear-powered submarine force. Read More