Goodbye Irene
August 26th, 2011 | The Wires | Posted by Mike Morones
Crew members of the guided missile destroyer Mason load food supplies aboard the ship early Thursday morning, August 25,2011 as the ship prepared to get underway with other Navy ships from the Norfolk Naval Station ahead of approaching hurricane Irene. The U.S. Navy ordered more than 60 ships out to safer waters Thursday so they could better weather the storm. (AP Photo/TheVirginian-Pilot, Bill Tiernan)
Two If By Sea
June 7th, 2011 | From the Ranks | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
BOSTON, MA – JUNE 3: In this image provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Constitution sails into Boston Harbor during an underway Battle of Midway commemoration on June 3, 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. The underway honored approximately 200 members of Gold Star Families who lost loved ones in Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom and the Navy’s victory at Midway Island in World War II. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Kathryn E. Macdonald/U.S. Navy via Getty Images)
Manning the Sail
August 21st, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
FT3 (SS) Sean Smith keeps watch on the bridge of the USS Rhode Island, a U.S. Navy Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, somewhere in the Atlantic ocean, August 16th, 2010.
Playing With Fire
June 26th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
While on a tour of the engine room, LHD-3 USS Kearsarge Boiler Technician Chief Hurdis Rodgers reveals the Zippo that lights the boilers of the ship’s engines – an increasingly rare sight in the Navy these days, as ships engines are modernized with the “hybrid” power.
Need a flag?
April 6th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Colin Kelly
One of the flag boxes on USS Independence while underway from Key West to Jacksonville, Fla. on April 1, 2010 in the Atlantic Ocean.
Beachfront Property
February 24th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Soldiers with the 82nd Airborne at FOB White, near the pier at Port-au-Prince, eat their meals (all MREs, all the time – this isn’t Afghanistan, y’know) on the beach – it keeps the rats away from tents.
Port Repair
February 17th, 2010 | Photography | Posted by Chris Maddaloni
Chief Equipment Operator Steven Eckroth, a Navy diver with Underwater Construction Team One, works to repair the supports on the the pier at the port of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Army 544th Engineer Dive Team is working on the biggest mission in its history – hand in hand with Navy divers and engineers to help get the port running at a higher capacity – as it is the main artery for the country.
Twighlight PT
August 25th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
On board the Thach, one of the most fit ships we visited, Sailors work out anywhere, any time. The ship's gym is called "Jimmy's House of Pain."
Darken Ship
August 25th, 2009 | Photography | Posted by Sheila
Red lights come on as The USS Thatch goes dark for the evening in the Arabian Gulf on Friday, August 14, 2009.