The June 1 incident at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California, occurred as the sailor was maintaining a Lightning II assigned to Strike Fighter Squadron 97.
The practice was both widespread in the tiny world of naval aviation and almost completely unknown to outsiders, according to records provided to Navy Times.
Navy leaders order officers and chiefs to reach out to every sailor in government or public/private partnership housing to find and fix housing problems.
Announced in August and officially established Oct. 1 as Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron - 30, it’s slated to fly the CMV-22B Osprey from the decks of the Navy’s flattops, part of an ongoing phaseout of the venerable but aging workhorse of carrier onboard delivery chores, the C-2A Greyhound.
Sunday ended what admirals on the Norfolk pier and inside the Pentagon agree was a successful implementation of the Dynamic Force Employment plan created by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to shake up the Navy’s carrier strike group deployment schedules.
The U.S. Navy’s first joint strike fighter squadron netted its safe-for-flight operations certification on Thursday, hitting another milestone on the way to initial operational capability.