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In the United States Armed Forces, a permanent change of station (PCS) is the assignment, detail, or transfer of a member or unit to a different duty station under competent orders which neither specify the duty as temporary, nor provide for further assignment to a new station, nor direct return to the old station. (For a more detailed ...
The term frocking dates back to the Age of Sail, when communications between the Department of the Navy and ships at sea could take months. News of the promotion of an officer arrived, usually via letters brought by another ship, and often with orders for the newly promoted officer to report to a new ship or station.
Temporary duty travel (TDY), also sometimes referred to as Temporary Additional Duty (TAD) in the US Navy and US Marine Corps, is a duty status designation reflecting a US Government Employee's official travel or assignment at a location other than the employee's permanent duty station.
The United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, and United States Coast Guard use a mixture of tactical call signs and international call signs, with ships beginning with the letter N. For example, the carrier USS John F. Kennedy had the call sign NJFK for unclassified and navigation communications with other vessels, but uses tactical call ...
NAS – Naval Air Station; NATO – North Atlantic Treaty Organization; NCIS – Naval Criminal Investigative Service (U.S. Navy) NAVAIR – Naval Air Systems Command; NAVCENT – Naval Forces Central Command (U.S. Navy) [3] NAVOCEANO – Naval Oceanographic Office; NBACC – National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center; NCI ...
Carrier Strike Group Six was established from Carrier Group Six with USS John F. Kennedy at Naval Station Mayport in 2004, but seems to have since been disestablished. Carrier Strike Group Fifteen has been disestablished, and its flagship, the carrier Ronald Reagan , was reassigned to Carrier Strike Group Seven.
Messages were formerly prepared on DD Form 173/4, Joint Message Form; DD Form 1753, Master Station Log would be used to record some types of data for the radio station. DD Form 1765, Incoming Service Message Log would be used to record received messages. DD Form 1766, Outgoing Service Message Log would be used to record outgoing messages.
An OPNAVINST or OPNAV Instruction is a formally documented lawful order that is issued by the Chief of Naval Operations. These instructions are typically used to establish United States Navy policy, procedures, and requirements. The instructions are issued in the form of a memorandum on official Department of the Navy letterhead. Each ...