Just in time to support the USS Ronald Reagan BREMERTON (NNS) –Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility and Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Northwest held a ribbon cutting ceremony marking the completion of Pier Bravo at Naval Base Kitsap Feb. 13. Congressman Norm Dicks, U.S. House of Representatives, District 6, attended the ceremony. “It [...]

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NAVFAC Northwest to spend $7 million on vehicle barrier By JJ Swanson jswanson@soundpublishing.com The Naval Facilities Engineering Command, Northwest on Feb. 10 awarded a $6.9 million contract to a Gig Harbor construction company to build a “passive vehicle barrier” along two miles of fencing on the northwest side of Naval Base Kitsap Bangor. Vehicle barriers [...]

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By JJ Swanson jswanson@soundpublishing.com Earthjustice, an environmental law firm, and the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit Jan. 25 on behalf of six environmental groups, including the People For Puget Sound, challenging the Navy’s underwater warfare training exercises in the Northwest Training Range. The Navy was permitted by the National Marine Fisheries Service in [...]

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By GREG SKINNER gskinner@soundpublishing.com A long Saturday night of whiskey, beer and video games ended with a shriek when a drunken sailor passed out in the bed of an unwitting senior citizen. Dalton Pierson, 24, left his buddy’s apartment in the Vineyards complex shortly sometime around 6 a.m. Sunday and entered a neighboring abode where [...]

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By JJ Swanson jswanson@soundpublishing.com It took days, but the recent stretch of winter storms and foul weather Monday claimed a life in Kitsap County. Navy Lt. Cmdr. Regina Mills, 44, an aircraft handling officer aboard the USS Nimitz (CVN 68), was killed Jan. 23 while trying to help a motorcyclist who had lost control on [...]

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The destroyer USS Gansevoort (DD-608) was built at Bethlehem Steel Co., and commissioned in San Francisco Aug. 25, 1942. She displaced 1,620 tons, was 348 long, and 36 feet at her beam. Known as a “steel cheetah” she moved at 37.5 knots and her 276-person crew manned four, 5-inch guns, 20mm guns, torpedoes and depth [...]

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By JJ Swanson jswanson@soundpublishing.com Naval Base Kitsap’s Federal Fire Department fought side-by-side with the Bremerton Fire Department and Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue team during the recent Desert Sun tanning salon fire in Silverdale, a three-alarm commercial fire that destroyed six businesses Jan. 8. The Navy provided two aerial ladder platforms to attack the flames [...]

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By Evelyn Hamm About a year ago the economy took a toll on my household budget and the true meaning of saving meant more to me than just some pennies here and there. I am a substitute and my husband is former Navy. We have two children, Brandon, 9, and Ashley, 11. I had to [...]

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As announced by NAVADMIN 025/12, released Jan. 20, the Navy will offer voluntary early retirement to certain Sailors separating due to the Enlisted Retention Board (ERB).

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Washington CASH volunteers help unemployed veterans with the dream of starting their own businesses By JJ Swanson jswanson@soundpublishing.com Many attendees of the Washington CASH business seminar at the Kitsap County Resource Center Jan. 10 were on their second or third job layoff in the past year. Linda Lee, a former hospital corpsman, was laid off [...]

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