Warship Ready

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (Oct. 20, 2019) Capt. John J. Cummings, USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78) commanding officer, Command Master Chief De’Andre Beufort, Ford’s CMC, and Master-at-Arms 3rd Class Krystina Wagstrom, assigned to Ford’s security department, explain what it means to be Warship Ready. Ford is currently undergoing its post-shakedown availability at Huntington Ingalls Industries-Newport […]

Georgian High Value Target Search Exercise

U.S. Marines and Georgian soldiers with 12th Georgian Infantry Battalion conduct a high value target search mission during the Georgian Mission Rehearsal Exercise in Hohenfels, Germany, Oct. 14, 2019. The Georgian Mission Rehearsal Exercise led by the U.S. Marine Corps involves nearly 900 Georgian soldiers and Marines. The exercise runs from October 1 to October […]

Rescue Technician Course

Rescue Technicians are more than firefighters – they’re trained to perform highly technical rope and confined space rescues. The Rescue Technician I Course was a 15-day firefighter training course taught by the USAFE Fire Academy, held from September 30 to October 18, at the 435th Construction and Training Squadron compound near Ramstein Air Base, Germany. […]