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The Elevated Causeway System (ELCAS) and the Joint Logistics Over-The-Shore (JLOTS) 2008 Joint Task Force admin pier provide the means to load and unload ships without the benefit of deep draft-capable, fixed port facilities for Joint Logistics Over-The-Shore (JLOTS) exercise 2008. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Brian Morales/Released)	140501-N-YB753-136 KEY WEST, Fla. (May 1, 2014) Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Jeffrey Rock swims the semi-annual Navy physical readiness test at Florida Keys Community College pool. Naval Air Station Key West is a state-of-the-art facility for air-to-air combat fighter aircraft of all military services and provides world-class pierside support to U.S. and foreign naval vessels. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brian Morales/ Released	A young girl wearing a World War II Navy uniform belonging to an ancestor salutes during the annual Key West Veterans Day Parade. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Brian Morales/ Released)	140424-N-YB753-057 KEY WEST, Fla. (April 24, 2014) Naval Air Station Key West Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Victim Advocates Machinist's Mate 1st Class Juliana Gomez, (left) from Armenia, Colombia, and Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) 2nd Class Michelle Ocon-Hernandez, from San Antonio, lead a SAPR march around Boca Chica Field. NAS Key West is a state-of-the-art facility for air-to-air combat fighter aircraft of all military services and provides world-class pierside support to U.S
140112-N-YB753-090 KEY WEST, Fla. (Jan. 12, 2014) Service members and Key West local citizens gather at Wounded Warrior Project's Soldier Ride ceremony which starts from Naval Air Station Key West's Boca Chica Field and ends at the Truman Waterfront. Soldier Ride helps to raise awareness and enlist the public's aid for the needs of injured service members. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Brian Morales/ Released	Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Fuels) 2nd Class George Coleman, the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln's fitness director, leads sailors in a "hangar bay beatdown" physical training session. Abraham Lincoln is deployed to the Pacific Fleet area of responsibility, promoting maritime security, regional cooperation and stability.	Airman Joel Blodgett, a plane captain assigned to the Bounty Hunters of Strike Fighter Squadron 2, relays pre-flight check signals between Rear Adm. Mark D. Guadagnini, commander of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, and a maintenance crew. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is deployed in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility conducting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts.	Landing signal officers communicate with the pilots as aircraft make their approach to land on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment to the U.S. 7th and 5th Fleet areas of responsibility supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts to establish conditions for regional stability.
The Military Sealift Command product tanker SS Chesapeake tilts 13 degrees towards its port side to release the Single Anchored Leg Moor into the ocean. Naval Beach Group 1, Amphibious Construction Battalion 1, and Underwater Construction Team 1, install the legacy offshore petroleum discharge system to replace the existing multi-point mooring system that has been condemned beyond repair.	DEL MAR, Calif. (June 30, 2008) Seaman Rafael Garcia, assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion (ACB) 1, secures a structural piece of the Navy Elevated Causeway System (ELCAS) off-loaded from the Military Sealift Command auxillary crane ship SS Flickertail State (T-ACS 5) onto the Improved Navy Lighterage System (INLS) Causeway Ferry 1 during Joint Logistics Over-The-Shore (JLOTS) 2008. JLOTS 2008 will establish command and control of Army and Navy units, construct a Life Support Area (LSA	080713-N-4973M-162 CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (July 13, 2008) Seaman Jamar Warren, assigned to Amphibious Construction Battalion (ACB) 1, unravels 600 feet of line on Red Beach during Joint Logistics Over-The-Shore (JLOTS) 2008. JLOTS 2008 is an engineering, logistical training exercise between Army and Navy units. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Brian Morales (Released)

Feature Stories

Connecticut hero always remembered

“Firefighters never die, they just burn forever in the hearts of the people whose lives they saved.” This statement, as made famous by Susan Diane Murphree, holds especially true for a beloved fire fighter inducted into the Navy Fire and Emergency Services (F&ES) Hall of Fall nearly two decades after his passing.

Lincoln's All Female Catapult Team Gets the Job Done

Fourteen female Sailors assigned to USS Abraham Lincoln’s (CVN 72) Air Department formed an all-female catapult crew to launch aircraft in support of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF), Jan. 23, 2011.