The Navy is doling out more cash in retention bonuses to surface warfare officers, offering up to $150,000 for officers to stay in service. The increase in bonuses comes as the Navy eyes ways to keep ...

Retention among surface warfare officers going into department head school is slightly down from last year, but numbers overall remain up as the service has launched several initiatives to keep SWOs ...

I’ll confess. Although printf-style debugging has a bad rep, I find myself turning to it on occasion. Sure, printf is expensive and brings in a lot of code, but if you have the space and time to use ...

SAN DIEGO (Aug. 22, 2019) – Vice Adm. Richard A. Brown, Commander, Naval Surface Forces, delivers the keynote address at the Surface Navy Association’s 21st annual West Coast symposium on board Naval ...

Capt. John F. Meier, then commanding officer USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), and Susan Ford Bales, ship’s sponsor, pin on Lt. j.g. Nicole Oliver’s surface warfare officer device, held inside the ship’s ...

FORT BRAGG, N.C. -- Three staff weather officers provided Task Force Wings (4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division) with weather updates and ...

Then-Ensign Zachary David Hirsch participates in a navigation, seamanship and ship-handling trainer during a simulated evolution to evaluate officer of the deck proficiency last year. (Navy) While the ...

Ensign Marshal White, right, and Lt. j.g. Daniel Feeney stand watch aboard the warship John S. McCain on Nov. 4. (Navy) Two U.S. congressmen introduced a bill last week that, if it becomes law, would ...

Commander, Naval Surface Forces/Commander of Naval Surface Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet announced a revision to the requirements for qualification and designation as a surface warfare officer. Effective ...

CONTINGENCY OPERATING BASE SPEICHER, Iraq - Imagine a blinding, gusting wall of sand and dust five to eight thousand feet high, spanning 60 to 90 miles, moving at a rate of 35 to 60 kilometers an hour ...

The federal government's watchdog agency is recommending that the Navy make significant changes to the Surface Warfare Officer, or SWO, career path. The Government Accountability Office, or GAO, ...