Story by Danette Baso Silvers | Naval Air Station Key West | 02.27.2020
U.S. Army Special Forces Underwater Operations School holds video chat with one of the school’s graduates, NASA Astronaut Andrew Morgan, Feb. 27, 2020. Morgan is currently onboard the International Space Station serving as flight engineer for Expedition 62....
Story by Dr. Michael Izard | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District | 10.13.2016
Two employees from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District staff recently completed dive school at the Sonny Carter Training Facility at NASA Neutral Buoyancy Lab in Houston, TX. For Safety Manager William Pioli, taking the one-week course was a refresher course required for his position, but for engineer Brian Dockstader, his three-week course provided specialized training to work......
Story by Lance Cpl. Stephen Himes | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 10.25.2013
In the dark of the night, just before the sun rose, a group of men gathered, preparing for a day none of them would ever forget. In those early predawn hours, a subtle tension could be felt as the group jumped into Camp Hansen’s 50-meter pool, starting their exhaustive day with a 500-meter timed swim....
Story by Maj. Dave Butler | United States Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School | 03.17.2010
Sgt. 1st Class Thomas Talmadge had two jobs when he reported to the U.S. Army Special Forces Underwater Operations School at Naval Air Station, Key West, Fla., in May 2008. He was charged with teaching special-operations Soldiers combat-dive skills and to recover from wounds received by a rocket-propelled grenade just seven months earlier. He did both....
