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The Honorable Benjamin C. Kohlmann, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, visits Navy Recruiting Command [Image 4 of 5]
260218-N-XB641-1093 The Honorable Benjamin C. Kohlmann, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, center, receives a brief from Rear Adm. James Waters, Commander, Navy Recruiting Command, left, in the Recruiting Operations Center at CNRC in Millington, Tennessee, Feb. 18, 2026. ASN M&RA Kohlmann was in the Naval Support Activity Mid-South area to visit Navy Personnel Co...[Read More]
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The Honorable Benjamin C. Kohlmann, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, visits Navy Recruiting Command [Image 5 of 5]
260218-N-XB641-1137 Rear Adm. James Waters, Commander, Navy Recruiting Command, right, briefs the Honorable Benjamin C. Kohlmann, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, center, in the Recruiting Operations Center at CNRC in Millington, Tennessee, Feb. 18, 2026. ASN M&RA Kohlmann was in the Naval Support Activity Mid-South area to visit Navy Personnel Command, Navy Re...[Read More]
Navy seeks new anti-radar missile compatible with F-18, F-35 aircraft
The U.S. Navy wants to a new anti-radiation missile with a longer range than existing weapons. The Advanced Emission Suppression Missile, or AESM, “must be compatible with existing launch platforms (e.g. F-18, F-35) and infrastructure currently supporting the Navy and Air Force’s existing inventory of anti-radiation guided missiles,” according to the Navy’s Sources Sought notice. The Navy expects ...[Read More]
Navy seeks new anti-radar missile compatible with F-18, F-35 aircraft
The U.S. Navy wants to a new anti-radiation missile with a longer range than existing weapons. The Advanced Emission Suppression Missile, or AESM, “must be compatible with existing launch platforms (e.g. F-18, F-35) and infrastructure currently supporting the Navy and Air Force’s existing inventory of anti-radiation guided missiles,” according to the Navy’s Sources Sought notice. The Navy expects ...[Read More]
The Medal of Honor recipient who became a ‘One-Man Regiment of Iwo Jima’
It had been one week since roughly 60,000 service members rushed ashore the sulfurous outcropping that was Iwo Jima. Despite the island being barely 10 square miles in area, “assault troops,” writes the Naval History and Heritage Command, “were to be subjected to a step-by-step battle of attrition, slowly progressing from one well-defended killing zone to the next.” American air superiority by thi...[Read More]
Gold PT uniform phaseout set as Navy streamlines sailors’ seabag
Amid a review commissioned by Navy Secretary John Phelan, the Navy will be cutting back the number of mandatory uniforms issued to sailors, the service’s director of Military Personnel Plans and Policy said. In an exclusive interview with Military Times, Rear Adm. Jennifer Couture said the Navy would finally make a long-anticipated cutback to one PT uniform by next year and soon announce other sea...[Read More]
Gold PT uniform phaseout set as Navy streamlines sailors’ seabag
Amid a review commissioned by Navy Secretary John Phelan, the Navy will be cutting back the number of mandatory uniforms issued to sailors, the service’s director of Military Personnel Plans and Policy said. In an exclusive interview with Military Times, Rear Adm. Jennifer Couture said the Navy would finally make a long-anticipated cutback to one PT uniform by next year and soon announce other sea...[Read More]
Sailors need to see themselves in ‘fabric’ of new warfighting instructions, CNO says
SAN DIEGO — The chief officer of the Navy sat down with reporters last week for a media roundtable to explain how his recently released warfighting instructions apply to the service’s rank and file and impact the implementation of autonomous systems. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle expounded at WEST Conference in San Diego, California, on several aspects of his Feb. 9 directive, dubbed...[Read More]
Sailors need to see themselves in ‘fabric’ of new warfighting instructions, CNO says
SAN DIEGO — The chief officer of the Navy sat down with reporters last week for a media roundtable to explain how his recently released warfighting instructions apply to the service’s rank and file and impact the implementation of autonomous systems. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle expounded at WEST Conference in San Diego, California, on several aspects of his Feb. 9 directive, dubbed...[Read More]
VA restores gun rights to some disabled veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs has ended a practice that prevented veterans who can’t manage their finances from owning guns, a change officials say will restore constitutional rights to nearly 200,000 former service members. The VA announced Tuesday it will immediately stop reporting veterans to the FBI’s national background check database if they need a fiduciary to help manage their benefit...[Read More]