Navy looking to shell out big bucks to keep pilot March 31, 2017
By: David B. Larter The Navy plans to shell out big bucks to aviators as retention starts to fray among fighter pilots and others, the Navy’s personnel boss told Congress … More
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Navy F/A-18s face persistent oxygen issue March 31, 2017
BY: LEIGH GIANGRECO The US Navy is still struggling to find the root cause of the hypoxia issue plaguing the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet and E/A-18G Growler, service leadership told House … More
Naval Aviation: Full-Year CR Would Shut Down Half Their Squadrons; Need Supplemental Funding For Readiness March 30, 2017
By: Megan Eckstein Navy and Marine Corps aviation leaders asked lawmakers to at the very least spare them from a full-year continuing resolution – and ideally to give them both … More
Three-stars: Marine, naval aviators and maintainers endure diminished flight hours, lack of spare parts March 30, 2017
By: David B. Larter Pilots and maintainers just want do their jobs, but readiness shortfalls are stopping them. That was the message from the three-star heads of Marine Corps and … More
US Navy on track for high-altitude P-8A weapon March 29, 2017
29 MARCH, 2017 SOURCE: FLIGHTGLOBAL.COM BY: STEPHEN TRIMBLE WASHINGTON DC A new torpedo upgrade that will fundamentally change the way US Navy airmen hunt submarines is on track to seek … More
Push to move a Norfolk-based aircraft carrier to Florida restarted March 23, 2017
By Bill Bartel The Virginian-Pilot Florida’s congressional delegation has restarted its campaign to move a Norfolk-based aircraft carrier to Naval Station Mayport in Jacksonville. In a March 20 letter to … More
‘Pivot to the Pacific’ is over, senior U.S. diplomat says March 14, 2017
By: Aaron Meht WASHINGTON – The Obama administration’s Pacific Rebalance effort – also known as the Pivot to the Pacific — effort is officially dead, according to a top State … More
What’s the purpose of President Trump’s Navy? March 14, 2017
By: Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski U.S. President Donald Trump visited Newport News, Virginia, at the beginning of March to deliver a speech aboard the soon-to-be commissioned aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford. … More