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FRCE Takes on New V-22 Workload

September 2, 2021September 2, 2021 admin

Fleet Readiness Center East (FRCE) opened a new chapter of service August 11 as it completed work on the first of the fleet MV-22B Osprey aircraft flown by the Marine Corps squadron tasked with helicopter transport of the president of the United States. FRCE has conducted modification and Planned Maintenance Interval (PMI) events for Navy and Marine Corps V-22 aircraft…

USCGC Steelhead Shifts Homeport to Fort Macon NC

August 18, 2021 admin

Coast Guard Cutter Steelhead (WPB 87324) officially arrived at her new homeport of Fort Macon August 6, 2021. The Steelhead is a coastal patrol boat with a crew of 11 men and women whose area of operations ranges from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay near Cape Charles and Cape Henry, Va., to the South Carolina border. Steelhead joins Coast…

Navy Identifies Aircrew in Southern Alabama Crash

October 27, 2020 admin

October 25, 2020 – The U.S. Navy has identified the two-person aircrew killed in a crash Friday in Foley, Alabama, as U.S. Navy Lt. Rhiannon Ross, 30 years old from Wixom, Michigan, and U.S. Coast Guard Ensign Morgan Garrett, 24 years old from Weddington, North Carolina. A U.S. Navy T-6B Texan II trainer aircraft crashed in a residential area of…