Navy Aims To Establish Expeditionary Warfare Command This Summer

By Lee Hudson / January 14, 2014 at 8:49 PM
The Navy is looking to establish a Naval Service and Expeditionary Warfare Command this summer, Vice Adm. Tom Copeman, naval surface forces commander for the U.S. Pacific Fleet said today. Copeman described the new command as the surface Navy's version of a Top Gun school that naval aviators attend. "The Top Gun school is where you develop the best air-to-air aviators," he said during a presentation at the Surface Navy Association conference. "It's sort of that concept," he said. Copeman's...

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