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The Navy has a China problem.
America’s top military threat is separated by a vast ocean, and China possesses a larger Navy and a growing number of shipyards to add to it. But with the U.S. Navy concluding a large unmanned exercise this week, it is proving that the future fleet will integrate manned and unmanned platforms that will be more cost-effective to produce and maintain.
As the 2022 budget process nears, the Navy tested its unmanned capabilities during the weeklong exercise Unmanned Integrated Battle Problem 21 off the coast of California. The inaugural event featured unmanned aircraft MQ-8 Fire Scout and MQ-9 Sea Guardian, surface vessels Sea Hunter and Seahawk, and a variety of unmanned systems operating below the surface.
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347 Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island was recognized for their efforts in leading the way in the Department of the Navy on environmental sustainability during a visit by the Secretary of the Navy April 1, 2021.
During his first visit to the base, Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas W. Harker presented the depot with the 2021 Secretary of the Navy Environmental Award, which recognized the depot for excellence in integrating environmental and operational sustainability efforts and mitigating impacts from storm surge and sea level rise through 2065.
In a memo announcing the depot as this year’s winner, Harker said the depot’s efforts “demonstrated that early and deliberate planning could yield a benefit cost ratio of 5.21, providing $675 million of net infrastructure, training and human health benefits, thus maximizing the operational budget and securing the depot’s mission.”
Mrs. L.S. Higbee at her desk, photograph by Harris & Ewing, 1918.
All reporting U.S. Navy :Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee was born in Chatham, Canada, on 18 May 1874. After immigrating to the United States, she completed her nursing training at New York Postgraduate Hospital in 1899 and later received further training at Fordham Hospital. On 1 October 1908, she became one the first twenty nurses in the newly-formed Navy Nurse Corps (commonly referred to as The Sacred Twenty). She became the second superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps in 1911.
Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee served in the United States Navy from 1908-1922. For eleven of her fourteen years of service, Higbee was Superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps. Chief Nurse Higbee received the Navy Cross for her leadership of the Navy Nurse Corps during World War I. She was the first female to be presented the award.
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The Navy‘s newest guided-missile destroyer will be named after a pioneering nurse who became the first woman awarded the Navy Cross, military officials said Friday.
The USS Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) will be christened on April 24, 2021, during a ceremony in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the service said.
She joined the Navy in 1908 as one of the “Sacred Twenty,” the first 20 women to become part of the service’s new Nurse Corps and went on to serve in World War I. In 1911, Mrs. Higbee was named the second superintendent of the Navy Nurse Corps. She was awarded the Navy Cross, the service’s highest award, for “distinguished service in the line of her profession and unusual and conspicuous devotion to duty.�
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