Way to make me think I made a typo.

CNO Caudle says F/A-XX downselect expected in August.

Definitely check out @taskandpurpose.com 's interview with the photographer of this great shot and what the experience was like.
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This is deployed, ie certified for national tasking. In the early days of the pandemic, Nimitz sailors were quarantined and separated from their families for 340+ days. While not certified, that length of separation is always worth noting.

Writing a USS Boise item for our wildly popular USNI News Sea Scroll Newsletter and found myself searching the internet for "potato idioms." Please send help.

Pioneer and Chief are inbound, we're 95 percent sure.

.@heathermongilio.bsky.social and I do a quick context update on the SoH movement. Details are scarce, but my guess is we'll see a combo of the 2 FDNF-J MCMs, the 3 LCS w/ MCM and the EoD MCM companies all working together.

A little annoyed the NASA reporter doesn't know the bow from the stern. Now stumping for USNI News to be on the amphib in 2028.

There's a lot of remaining questions as to what the status of the Strait of Hormuz is. Here's where we are:

Big, big money. Like "41 for Freedom" money.

L-53 minutes until I crank Wild Horses and ugly cry.

Y'all did it again.
It took me until the NATO reporting name to realize you got me.

USS George H.W. Bush Departs for Deployment - USNI News NAVAL STATION NORFOLK, Va. — The sun peeked over the horizon tinting the haze gray hull of carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) orange while sailors on Pier 14 busied themselves preparing for the car...

Sometimes you gotta write the featurey lede.

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USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier leaving Norfolk, Virginia - March 31, 2026 SRC: Sam LaGrone 📸

I see you, man.

Guarantee this will be an essential bookmark.

Bloomberg confrims our scoop from yesterday.

We got cited in @nymag.com
That's a first.
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The Navy is sending 1,000 mattresses and 2,000 sweatsuits to the crew after the fire due to smoke damage and the lack of laundry facilities.

Missile Attacks Define Strait of Hormuz Risks, Officials Say - USNI News THE PENTAGON — Missiles are currently the largest threat to merchant shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf instead of sea mines, defense officials told reporters Friday. Iran has used surf...

Missile Attacks Define Strait of Hormuz Risks, Officials Say — USNI News
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There’s a credible argument to be made that the speed of the early US and Israeli strikes took out a lot of capability for the Iranians to mind the strait of Hormuz. What I would like to hear more about is fast attack craft, and the threat they pose.

Didn’t come up.

Per a US official the fire is out and damage control operations like looking for hot spots, clean up etc.

Unclear how bad the fire was, CENTCOM says the carrier is fully operational.

Not an official name, just a headline construction

Here’s a table setter for what an escort mission would look like. With lots of stuff on mine warfare.

Still holds up.

Iran Left With Midget Subs, Speedboats After Week of Strikes Iran’s navy suffered devastating losses in the last week, with most of its surface vessels damaged or destroyed, leaving the country to depend on a fleet of smaller ships such as midget submarines and...

let's check in on iran's navy www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Elmer Royce Williams' MiG fight is nuts.
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We are almost positive this mission originated on a US Navy ESB operating in PACOM based on the videos.