Naval Education and Training Command: Warrior Toughness

Every U.S. Navy Sailor, enlisted or officer, could face life-threatening situations from combat or casualty. Each and every one needs to have the ability to persevere and perform under both immediate danger and long-term stress, both on the job and at home.

Warrior Toughness (WT) is a holistic human performance skillset that enhances the toughness of our Sailors with a focus on the pursuit of peak performance. The system emphasizes coequal development of toughness in the mind, body, and soul. WT combines performance psychology skills with character development, and teaches the Warrior Mindset, whose concepts were initially developed by members of the Naval Special Warfare community.

Designed to increase the Navy’s warfighting capabilities, WT is an enabler of the Culture of Excellence as part of the first line of effort – Developing a Lethal Warfighting Force. In place at Recruit Training Command since October 2018, the curriculum is now incorporated across all Navy accessions at Officer Training Command Newport, the United States Naval Academy and the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps. WT will improve the performance of Sailors under stress and throughout their everyday lives, building lethal warfighters ready for the next mission.

Video by Staff Sgt. Ross Whitley

Mother’s Day greetings from the Philadelphia Community Vaccination Centers

Federal Vaccine Response

May 6, 2021 | 1:40

U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy Sailors with Combat Logistics Battalion 22 (CLB-22), Pennsylvania National Guard members, and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials send Mother’s Day greetings to their families at the state-run, federally-supported Center City Community Vaccination Center in the Pennsylvania Convention Center and the Esperanza Community Vaccination Center in Philadelphia, May 6, 2021. U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy Sailors with CLB-22, from Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, are deployed in support of the federal vaccine response. U.S. Northern Command, through U.S. Army North, remains committed to providing continued, flexible Department of Defense support to FEMA as part of the whole-of-government response to COVID-19. (National Guard video by Staff Sgt. Ross Alexander Whitley / 111th Attack Wing)