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Those in the Navy Reserve were required to become fully vaccinated by Dec. 28.

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The Navy signaled that a booster shot will likely become mandatory in the not-too-distant future.

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Navy unveils maternity uniform pilot program for 2022

The voluntary program will provide expecting sailors maternity uniforms at no cost.

Navy personnel rescue five drug smugglers from burning ship in the Gulf of Oman

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Diana Stancy Correll

Early Bird Brief Editor

All Stories By

The maximum bonus is $10,000 more than previously offered to incoming sailors.

The exercise, which has been in the works since 2020 and isn’t in response to rising tension with Russia, will place the Truman and its carrier strike group under NATO operational control.

The Ford was originally slated to deploy in 2018.

The carrier's commanding officer Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt is the first woman to lead a nuclear carrier in U.S. Navy history.

The Navy is implementing some important personnel changes in the coming year.

Those in the Navy Reserve were required to become fully vaccinated by Dec. 28.

The Navy signaled that a booster shot will likely become mandatory in the not-too-distant future.

The vessel was traveling "along a route historically used to traffic weapons unlawfully to the Houthis in Yemen,” the Navy said.

The additional two weeks of training will be spent completing a “Sailor for Life” module that targets the conversion from civilian to sailor.

Lt. Ivey Quintana-Martinez, 35, was assigned to Navy Reserve Center San Diego.

The voluntary program will provide expecting sailors maternity uniforms at no cost.

The coastal patrol ship Sirocco ultimately seized approximately $14.7 million worth of hashish, methamphetamine and heroin from the vessel.

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