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On May 22, 1968, The USS Scorpion (SSN 589), a Skipjack-class nuclear powered submarine, was lost with 99 crewmen. Below is the Officers, Sailors and Civilian that lost their lives.

The U.S. Fleet Cyber Command emblem is in the form of the traditional Navy logo with the yellow braid around its border and three stars representing the Commander. 

The U.S. TENTH Fleet emblem features the Navy’s colors of Blue and Gold – a Gold border representing integrity and valor, with the Blue field representing the seas that are our domain. The owl, a predator, has long been associated with the Greek goddess Athena and symbolizes wisdom.

Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) commander Vice Adm. Kelly Aeschbach announced the Shore and Sea Sailors of the Year for the Navy Information Warfare domain at the Information Warfare Conference (INFOWARCON) on May 18.

May 19, 1919, Department of State approved the creation of Cipher Bureau “Black Chamber,” a precursor to the modern-day National Security Agency and the United States’ first peacetime federal intelligence agency.The United States entered the Great War in 1918 with an intercept service of limited experience, and with equally limited experience in making and breaking codes. In the course of the war, the U.S. Army developed a cryptologic service that was probably the equal of any in the world.