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Navy Word of the Day
Continuing on with your Naval education, Jim Adams bring you another installment of MSW’s Navy Word of the Day.
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Great Lakes Naval Memorial and Museum

Today’s website is the Great Lakes Naval Memorial and Museum. Step back in time...and tour a WWII Submarine, LST, and Coast Guard Cutter. Berthed in Muskegon, Michigan at The Great Lakes Naval Memorial and Museum are The USS Silversides SS236, The USS LST 393, and The USCGC McLane W-146. This Historical Naval site also features a Maritime Museum and a Gift Shop. We hope as you tour our three WWII boats they will come alive for you and help you appreciate the Veterans who served our Country and preserved our freedom. Enjoy.
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This Day in U.S. Naval History

1813 - HMS Shannon captures USS Chesapeake, Capt. James Lawrence. As the mortally wounded Lawrence was carried below, he ordered, "Tell the men to fire faster! Don't give up the ship!" These words would live on in naval history. Oliver Hazard Perry honored his dead friend Lawrence when he had the motto sewn onto the private battle flag flown during the Battle of Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813.
1871 - Rear Adm. Rodgers lands in Korea with a party of Sailors and Marines and captures five forts to secure protection for U.S. citizens after Americans were fired upon and murdered.
1914 - General Order 99 prohibits alcohol aboard naval vessels, or at navy yards or stations.
1915 - First contract for lighter-than-air craft for Navy.
1939 - Director of the Naval Research Laboratory, Capt. Hollis M. Cooley, proposes research in atomic energy for future use in nuclear powered submarine.
1944 - ZP-14 Airships complete first crossing of Atlantic by non-rigid lighter-than-air aircraft.
1954 - First test of steam catapult from USS Hancock (CV/CVA 19).


Electronic Warfare Center to Enhance Warfighter Effectiveness
Source: US Navy

CRANE, Ind. --- Naval Network Warfare Command (NETWARCOM) recently recognized Naval Electronic Warfare Technology Integration Center (NEWTIC) as part of its Electronic Warfare (EW) Integration Improvement Program (EWIIP) support structure.

The U.S. Fleet Forces Command (USFFC) message establishing the EW Fleet Collaborative Team (EW FCT), a special group created by the Navy operational community to work specifically on EW, recognized this support.

Initiated in April 2008, NEWTIC promotes collaboration between the diverse groups in the U.S. naval EW community and develops technologies that span across each EW domain and mission area. With its headquarters at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Crane Division (NSWC Crane), NEWTIC will combine expert talents from all organizations across Navy's robust EW community. Their talents and assets will be used to better identify gaps in EW technology as well as solutions to fill them.

Currently, experts within the naval EW community are separated by complex organizations, a division that makes teamwork among professionals working in different domains, missions and establishments difficult. In order to combine the knowledge in this unique asset, NEWTIC is enabling these pockets of professionals to more effectively share innovative solutions and leverage investments.

One way in which NEWTIC seeks to bridge the compartmentalized structure of EW is by conducting a comprehensive look at current capabilities across all domains and missions. NEWTIC will create an EW portal, available on SIPRNET, making the information and intelligence generated by the assessment process more widely available to the naval EW community. These real-time, continuous capabilities assessments will provide important information to decision makers to create more effective investment strategies.

"The baselines identified in the assessment process will provide a real-time continuous EW capability baseline and a clearer picture of where the Navy needs to invest their EW dollars," said Erika White, director of NEWTIC.

At the forefront of NEWTIC's mission is its goal to improve the process of getting research already completed by the nation's top scientists translated into fielded technology. Enhancing this procedure will more quickly and effectively get needed technology to the warfighter.

"We've got to get advanced technology out of the labs and into the warfighter's hands, as well as engage top scientists in thinking about how to apply their expertise to make existing and new EW capabilities more affordable and sustainable," White said.

As the significance of EW increases in the modern conflicts our nation faces, banding together the Navy's EW expertise has never been more imperative. EW technology is used daily to both target threat assets and protect the warfighter from enemy attacks ranging from improvised explosive devices to shoulder-launched missiles.

"Combining the Navy's EW expertise will further allow our warfighters to complete safe and effective missions," White said.


New sea trials of Nerpa submarine set for June
Source: Russian Navy

New sea trials of the Nerpa nuclear-powered submarine, which was damaged in a fatal accident during previous tests, will be conducted on June 15-20, Russia's Kommersant daily said on Wednesday.

On November 8 last year, while the Nerpa submarine was undergoing sea trials in the Sea of Japan, its on-board fire safety system went off, releasing deadly gas into the sleeping quarters. Three submariners and 17 shipyard workers were killed. There were 208 people, 81 of them submariners, on board the vessel at the time.

"Repairs on board the Nerpa submarine are almost complete," Kommersant quoted general director of the Amur shipyard Nikolai Povzyk as saying.

Povzyk said the Nerpa, which is due to be leased by the Indian Navy, could be ready by the yearend if the project received sufficient financing.

India has reportedly paid $650 million for a 10-year lease of the 12,000-ton Nerpa nuclear attack submarine. Indian media has reported that the construction of the vessel was partially financed by the country's government.

The accident on K-152 Nerpa, an Akula II class nuclear-powered attack submarine, was the Russian Navy's worst since the sinking of the Kursk nuclear submarine in 2000, which claimed the lives of all 118 personnel on board.

An investigation has supported the conclusion that the tragedy was caused by the mishandling of a temperature sensor on board which led to deadly Freon gas being released.

Submariner Dmitry Grobov has been charged with "involuntary manslaughter" for entering the wrong temperature data for the submarine's living quarters, which caused the fire suppression system to release the Freon gas.


Photo of the Day



Personnel aboard the Military Sealift Command ocean surveillance ship USNS Able (T-AGOS 20) use fire fighting hoses to deter simulated attackers in a rigid hull inflatable boat.

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