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Top Stories 2021: COVID-19 Pandemic

Top Stories 2021: COVID-19 Pandemic

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Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Omar Bowen, left, assigned to Navy Medicine Readiness and Training Unit Bahrain, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Lt. j.g. Kory Hill, anti-terrorism officer aboard amphibious transport dock ship USS San Diego (LPD-22), in Manama, Bahrain on Feb. 26, 2021. US Navy Photo

The COVID-19 pandemic continued to affect the Navy’s functioning, even as vaccines were rolled out to the fleet. The past year brought ebbs and flows in terms of the number of cases with peaks brought by the Delta and Omicron variants of SARS-CoV-2. Read More →

USS Milwaukee Kept Pierside in Guantanamo After COVID-19 Infects Crew

USS Milwaukee Kept Pierside in Guantanamo After COVID-19 Infects Crew

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Sailors heave line on the fo’c’sle as the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) arrives in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on Dec. 20, 2021. US Navy Photo

This post has been updated to correct the deployment date of USS Milwaukee (LCS-5). It departed Florida on Dec 14.

USS Milwaukee (LCS-5) is in port after sailors aboard the Littoral Combat Ship tested positive for COVID-19, the Navy announced on Friday. Read More →

U.S. Warship Shadowing High-End Russian Frigate Near Cuba

U.S. Warship Shadowing High-End Russian Frigate Near Cuba

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New Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov in late 2014.

This post has been updated with a statement from U.S. Nothern Command.

A U.S. destroyer is off the coast of Havana, Cuba, shadowing a detachment of Russian naval ships that includes one of the country’s most advanced surface ships, USNI News has verified. Read More →

Navy Continues to Provide Medical Relief to Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria

Navy Continues to Provide Medical Relief to Puerto Rico Following Hurricane Maria

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Sailors embarked aboard the Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH-20) transport a patient to Centro Medico hospital in San Juan, Puerto Rico Oct. 16, 2017. US Navy Photo

As Puerto Rico’s hospitals are reconnected to a power grid being rebuilt in the wake of Hurricane Maria, military medical providers continue increasing their ability to treat patients on shore and at sea. Read More →

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