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Navy Announces New Mid-Career Officer Graduate Education Opportunity
By MC1 Mark D. Faram, OPNAV N7 Public Affairs Washington, DC (NNS) -- The Navy is now calling for applications to a new graduate education program to be piloted this fall, with 80 officers expected to start low-residency opportunities offered by up to eight partner...
Congressman John Lewis
On behalf of the National Naval Officers Association: Our hearts are deeply saddened as we have lost a giant in life, one of the original Freedom Riders, civil rights activist, leader of the march from Selma to Montgomery, and a member of Congress representing the...
Sailor to Sailor – My Navy HR Newsletter
Hard Conversations and Affecting True Change By Chief of Naval Personnel, Vice Adm. John B. Nowell Jr. Our nation has recently seen thousands take to the streets across the country to protest discrimination and injustice at all levels. There’s no doubt all of you are...
The U.S. Coast Guard’s Vision for Diversity & Inclusion
EXCERPT: America relies on the U.S. Coast Guard to preserve our Nation’s maritime safety, security and stewardship. To ensure we remain Ready, Relevant, and Responsive, we must continue to recruit and retain a highly skilled total workforce that reflects the people we...
MARAD and NNOA establishes a framework for a cooperative relationship to support the achievement of mutual goals
On Thursday, July 2, 2020, the Department of Transportation's Maritime Administration (MARAD) and the National Naval Officers Association (NNOA) signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two organizations. Maritime Administrator RADM (Ret) Mark...
I Want to Breathe by CAPT Washington Johnson II
How will that happen? I was born in Birmingham, Alabama, 100 years from the beginning of the American Civil War and five generations removed from slavery. Our Heritage: Slavery and More For the United States, slavery remains an albatross: from 1619, when 20 African...
There should be more Hispanics in the senior ranks
The continuing focus on diversity and inclusion has become more of a “race issue” and a “gender issue” than an “ethnicity issue.” The Hispanic American population has grown to be the largest minority group in this country, and yet, comparatively speaking, our armed...
The Burden of a Black Naval Officer
By Lieutenant Commander Desmond Walker, U.S. Navy June 2020 | Proceedings | Vol. 146/6/1,408 In 23 years of naval service, I have learned that candid and open discussions that welcome dissenting or different opinions can be an effective catalyst for change; it is...
NASA Names Headquarters After First Black Female Engineer Mary W. Jackson At NASA
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine announced Wednesday the agency’s headquarters building in Washington, D.C., will be named after Mary W. Jackson, the first Black female engineer at NASA. Mary started her career in the segregated West Area Computing Unit of the...
NNOA Congratulates Our Women of Color Award Winners
On behalf of all the members of the NNOA, I congratulate two of our outstanding leaders for their recognition in the upcoming 2020 Women of Color STEM Conference. CAPT(Sel) Janet Days will be receiving the STEM Technology All-Star Award and LT Jordan Johnson will...
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