Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Dylan C Mckay | USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) | 01.10.2018
180111-N-YM543-057 YOKOSUKA, Japan (Jan. 11, 2018) - Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Amanda Eakin, from Newville, Pa., attached to the U.S. 7th Fleet Flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), gives stretcher bearer training to her shipmates. Blue Ridge is in an extensive maintenance period in order to modernize the ship to continue to serve as a robust communications platform in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Dylan C Mckay | USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) | 01.10.2018
180111-N-YM543-026 YOKOSUKA, Japan (Jan. 11, 2018) - Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Amanda Eakin, from Newville, Pa., attached to the U.S. 7th Fleet Flagship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), explains the importance of the aft battle dress station during stretcher bearer training. Blue Ridge is in an extensive maintenance period in order to modernize the ship to continue to serve as a robust......
Photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Alexander Ventura | USS America (LHA 6) | 08.31.2017
170831-N-AC254-229 PACIFIC OCEAN (Aug. 31, 2017) Fire Controlman 2nd Class Audrey Wila, a native of West Palm Beach, Florida, assigned to command, control, communications, computers, cyber and intelligence department aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6), inspects a surface-to-air intercept missile 162D in a rolling airframe missile launcher on the ship’s missile deck as......
Photo by Nell King | Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall | 02.19.2016
Lynise Wright, director of the Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall Network Enterprise Center and deputy director for the National Capital Region NEC, shows photos of herself during her Army enlistment more than three decades ago, during a photo shoot in her Fort Myer office Feb. 19. Wright was one of several female Soldiers selected to attend a four-week advanced training program at the U.S.......
Photo by Cpl. Cody Torkelson | 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment "The Old Guard" | 03.18.2015
Then-1st Lt. Lauran Glover, the first African-American woman to command the prestigious U.S. Army Drill Team, leads the platoon in a special exhibition at the Fort Myer Fitness Center on Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall March 18, 2015. Now a captain, Glover recalled an older African-American woman's words to her after a drill team performance: "She whispered in my ear, 'This is why we sat on......
Photo by Cpl. Cody Torkelson | 3d U.S. Infantry Regiment "The Old Guard" | 02.11.2015
Then-1st Lt. Lauran Glover, the first African-American woman to command the prestigious U.S. Army Drill Team, leads the team in a precision drill routine Feb. 11, 2015, in Conmy Hall on the Fort Myer portion of Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Cody W. Torkelson)...
