Story and photo by Keiichi Adachi, CFAY Public Affairs Recently, U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center (SRF-JRMC) conducted a pair of docking maintenance availabilities for two U.S. Army Landing Craft Utility (LCU) 2000 series ships, LCU 2007 and LCU 2009, at Dry Dock 1. “I have worked for 17 years at SRF-JRMC ...

From USNH Yokosuka Public Affairs With flu season right around the corner, U.S. Naval Hospital (USNH) Yokosuka is urging the community to take precautions and get vaccinated to prevent the spread of influenza this year. Vaccination remains the single best method to prevent both catching and spreading the flu. Last year, flu vaccines provided ...

Story and photo by Paul Long, CFAY Public Affairs If you’re looking to spend a day, night, weekend, or a week, sleeping under the stars in the great outdoors and don’t have any camping equipment, Morale, Welfare, & Recreation’s (MWR) Outdoor Recreation Service has a new delivery service for you. MWR will not only rent you all of the campi ...

Story and photo by Joe Schmitt, CFAY Public Affairs Master-at-Arms Seaman Apprentice Michael Bordner prepared to go out on patrol with other dog handlers from Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) Military Work Dog (MWD) kennel Aug. 17. Bordner is the junior handler at the kennel, which is usually staffed with E5 and above U.S. Navy Sailors. ...

By MC3 Matthew Cole, Navy Public Affairs Support Element Japan Master-at-Arms at Commander, Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) patrol the installation with their trained K-9 partners the Military Working Dogs (MWD), providing assistance in specialized mission functions such as drug and explosive detection. The German Sheppard and Belgian Malinois dogs ...

Story and photo by Ens. Carissa Guthrie, USS Fitzgerald Public Affairs GUAM– While the crew of USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) consistently looks to set the bar in all warfare areas at sea, the Sailors turned to a different type of challenge during a recent port visit: competitive eating, Aug. 13. As part of the Navy Entertainment Major League Eating (MLE) ...

Story and photo by MC3 Matthew Cole, Navy Public Affairs Support Element Japan Suicide prevention trainers from Living Works, a suicide intervention training company, is providing a week long training session to Navy leadership at Fleet Activities Yokosuka’s ( CFAY) Community Readiness Center Aug. 22-26. The five day workshop is designed to give 15 N ...

Story and photo by Joe Schmitt, CFAY Public Affairs Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) Chief Selects along with Chief selects from CFAY tenant commands and ships forward deployed to the region held a fund-raiser near the main gain on the night of August 14. “This was their fund-raising day. They started this morning just before six a.m. and t ...