Forklift damages ‘high-valued’ electronic warfare gear 2 hours ago Pricey electronic warfare equipment was damaged by a forklift last month at Naval Support Activity Crane, Indiana. (Navy) A forklift accidentally struck a crate and damaged “high-valued electronic warfare equipment” at a U.S. Navy base in Indiana late last month, resulting in a Class A mishap, according to officials and the Naval Safety Center. The incident took place April 27 at a warehouse on Naval Support Activity Crane, about 35 miles southwest of Boomington, officials said. A contractor was offloading a delivery truck containing electronic warfare equipment when the mishap occurred.
Class A mishaps are the most serious of Navy mishap classifications, and involve more than $2.5 million in damages, serious injury or loss of life.
Navy training jets collide over Texas 2 hours ago
Two T-45 Goshawk training jets collided in mid-air Monday over Texas. Two of the jets are shown here in 2019. (Navy) Two U.S. Navy T-45 Goshawk training aircraft collided in mid-air over Texas Monday morning, but fortunately no one was seriously injured. The incident occurred over Ricardo at about 11 a.m., according to a message posted to the Chief of Naval Air Training’s social media accounts. One Goshawk was able to land safely at Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas, while the other aircraft’s instructor and pilot ejected about nine miles south of the base, according to the post.
Meet the sailor who wants to make your coverall nametag look less crappy 3 hours ago Lt. Mitchell Kempisty has patented an invention that helps keep coverall nametags from getting curled and wrinkly. (Naval Postgraduate School) “Necessity is the mother of invention,” the old proverb goes, and military men and women are no strangers to jury-rigging fixes on the fly. And so it went when Lt. Mitchell Kempisty, who has served on several ships in recent years, saw a nametag problem that needed fixing. Namely, the soft and bendy nametags were not standing up to shipboard life. “They have a hook and loop Velcro that just attaches to the coveralls,” the 28-year-old junior officer said. “Over time, when the coveralls get washed or they get hung up or get rolled down to half-mast … they just get beat up over time.”
Truman leaves Norfolk shipyard after first of its kind maintenance availability The aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman transits the Arabian Sea in February 2020. (MC2 Scott Swofford/Navy) The aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman left Norfolk Naval Shipyard Wednesday following the conclusion of a first-ever extended carrier incremental availability, which began last year after the ship completed its third deployment in four years. Truman arrived back in Norfolk last spring but was kept at sea for several months to prevent COVID-19 infection during the sustainment phase of its deployment cycle. It went into the yard July 7 for what a Navy press release called the “Truman Project,” which involved “a record-breaking quantity of maintenance work and multiple equipment testing evolutions never previously attempted during a maintenance availability.”