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Addie Viola Smith (1893–1975) was an American attorney who served as the U.S. trade commissioner to Shanghai from 1928 to 1939, the first female Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Foreign Service to work under the Commerce Department, and the first woman to serve as trade commissioner.
NAF Atsugi is also home to Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 51 , which provides detachments of MH-60R helicopters to forward deployed U.S. Navy guided missile cruisers, guided missile destroyers, and frigates homeported at the nearby Yokosuka Naval Base.
In November 1940, the U.S. Government acquired the land (around 1.1 km 2) that would eventually become Naval Air Station Oceana.At that time, the surrounding area was mainly farmland susceptible to flooding, but it served as a useful outlying field for the rapidly expanding naval air force headquartered at NAS Norfolk and allowed units to work up for deployments away from the crowded base there.
In 1937, the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics sought to consolidate aviation test programs, previously being conducted at several stations, including Dahlgren and Norfolk, the Washington Navy Yard, Naval Air Station Anacostia in Washington, D.C., and the Naval Aircraft Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Cedar Point was selected due to its ...
After 2 extensions and after supporting Operation Enduring Freedom, VFA-147 returned home on 12 December 2013. [2] VFA-147 F-35Cs at NAS Lemoore, in February 2019. VFA-147 was selected to be the first operational Squadron to transition to the F-35C in January 2018. [3]
The Naval Information Warfare Center Atlantic (NIWC Atlantic) is an Echelon III activity of the United States Navy located in North Charleston, South Carolina.. The center’s mission is to deliver information warfare solutions that protect national security Conduct research, development, prototyping, engineering, test and evaluation, installation, and sustainment of integrated information ...
Operation Cyber Condition Zebra is a network operations campaign conducted by the United States Navy to deny network intrusion and establish an adequate computer network defense posture to provide defense-in-depth and warfighting capability.
Boat Image Armament Notes Mk 5 SOC: M2 Browning.50 cal Heavy Machine Gun and M240 General Purpose Machine Gun: Transportable by Lockheed C-5 Galaxy only : SOC-R: GAU-17 minigun, M2 Browning.50 cal Heavy Machine Gun, M240 General Purpose Machine Gun, and 40mm Mk 19 grenade launcher