SILVERDALE, Wash. — This is one 21st birthday to forget.A 21-year-old man stationed at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor has been arrested after getting into multiple altercations on what one of his friends told law enforcement was the man's 21st birthday.The man was kicked out of the Old Town Bistro early Saturday morning, the first in a series of events. The Kitsap Sun reports about 12:15 a.m. a witness said the man approached him and started a conversation.
The Naval Facilities Engineering Command awarded a $22.2 million firm-fixed-price task order under a multiple award construction contract to Barnhart in San Diego, CA for the renovation and repair of 2 single enlisted barracks – buildings 783 and 787 – at Naval Base Coronado in San Diego, CA. Naval Base Coronado is a consolidated US Navy installation including 8 military facilities stretching from San Clemente Island to the La Posta Mountain Warfare Training Facility, encompassing more than 57,000 acres. It is the largest command in the southwest region of the United States… (more…)
Pearl Harbor Naval Base (click to view larger) The Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Pearl Harbor, HI awarded 6 indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple-award contracts worth up to a combined $140.4 million to provide maintenance, repair and modernization of submarines homeported or transient through Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The winners of the submarine maintenance contracts are: AMSEC in Virginia Beach, VA (N32253-10-D-0001); BAE Systems Hawaii Shipyards in Honolulu, HI (N32253-10-D-0002); Chugach Government Services in Anchorage, AK (N32253-10-D-0003); General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. in Groton, CT (N32253-10-D-0004); Pacific Shipyards International in Honolulu, HI (N32253-10-D-0005); and QED Systems in Virginia Beach, VA (N32253-10-D-0006). According to the Commander, Submarine Force US Pacific Fleet, the following submarines are homeported at Pearl Harbor… (more…)
Invasion of Inchon during the Korean War (click to view larger) Pushed to the edge of the Korean penisula by a massive and sustained invasion by the North Korean army, South Korean, US, and UN troops dug in at a perimeter around the city of Pusan. It was the the summer of 1950 and things looked desparate for the allied forces. Then, US General Douglas MacArthur launched a bold counteroffensive – an amphibious landing at the port of Inchon near the 38th parallel. The landing was successful, MacArthur retook South Korea’s capital city of Seoul. The South Korean and allied forces broke through at Pusan and the North Korean army beat a hasty retreat. The tide of the Korean war had turned.
Video: United States navy basic training picture san diego california 1987. Enlistment ceremony at Subic Bay Naval Base in the Philippines entering the US pursuant to military orders on RP-US military agreement
