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The first MH-60R avionics maintenance trainer (AMT) built by CAE USA for US Navy has entered for training services at the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training Unit (CNATTU) in Jacksonville, Florida. The MH-60 AMT avionics and electronics technicians will get demonstration, instruction and also hands-on training on maintaining the MH-60R Romeo helicopter, which is used by the US Navy for anti-submarine warfare and surface attack. “We are pleased as the US Navy has declared the first CAE-built MH-60R avionics maintenance trainer ready-for-training, the US Navy has now put into service the comprehensive MH-60R Romeo training systems from CAE that...

): USS Nimitz (CVN 68) has successfully completed its sea trials at the western Pacific Ocean. For the first time in three months Nimitz was departed from the Naval Base Coronado on June 29 and the sea trials were completed by July 2. The trials were mainly done to test and evaluate Nimitz' main engines along with other equipment (elevators, doors, catapults and high-speed power turns) after conducting a 30-day Carrier Incremental Availability. "For us, the main concern was shaking off the dust after a three month layoff making sure we had the same skill sets in place," Master Chief...

USS Nimitz (CVN 68) has started from her homeport of Naval Base Coronado to perform sea trials at the western Pacific Ocean, for assessing its readiness and capability. The trails have begun from June 30. Later on, a 30-day carrier incremental availability (CIA) will be conducted when the ship will return from the extended deployment. "We have accomplished some high quality maintenance on critical equipment and systems during this availability, for the next few days we get to validate that work by putting the ship through its paces," Capt. Paul O. Monger, Nimitz commanding officer, said in an US Navy...

Authors start off about how the city has given much to the Navy (MY COMMENT: the city and the Navy do get along well, but...) and it's time for the Navy to give back...note where they complain the Navy didn't pay fair market value for the property in the beginning, how the land at Miramar and North Island is valuable commercially and residentially, and that it could help solve the cities pension crisis. BEGIN ARTICLE As the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority works to place a proposition on the November ballot regarding a new airport site in San Diego,...

WASHINGTON, D.C., August 7 (RIA Novosti, Arkady Orlov) - Officials at the U.S. Navy's Pacific Fleet headquarters in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, have highlighted the role of American divers in an international effort to bring to the surface the seven-man crew of a Russian mini-submarine trapped for three days beneath the Pacific Ocean, off the Kamchatka peninsula. The officials said in a press release Sunday that three of the U.S. Navy divers involved in the rescue effort provided crucial help for the British underwater robot Scorpio in slicing through fishing nets and debris entangling the submarine. They also said that on...