Mark D. Faram

Three months into the fiscal year, Navy personnel officials have released an extensive re-up bonus update and officials say sailors can count on more frequent updates from now on.

The Navy’s calculus for annual clothing maintenance allowances will change again this fiscal year as more of the service’s uniform changes begin to kick in.

Two Navy aviators remained hospitalized more than two weeks after they suffered injuries when their F/A-18 Growler’s canopy malfunctioned, Navy officials said.

Sailors from Ike’s Carrier Strike Group 10 returned home from deployment to the Persian Gulf — spending 152 days in combat operations against the Islamic State.

The Navy’s rating modernization will continue into 2017, as Navy officials press forward with reforms that will broaden career fields and allow sailors to qualify to work, advance and take duty assignments in more than one skill within a related field.

In 2017, the Navy will wants sailors to use their Virtual Education Center, which can provide sailors with counseling and tuition assistance processing help both online and over the phone.

The Navy is in the third year of a training overhaul that will move forward considerably in 2017 with a program called Ready Relevant Learning, expected to be fully finished in 2020.

In 2017, sailors can expect to start hearing just what Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (SG/SW/IW) Steven S. Giordano plans to accomplish during his time as the Navy’s top enlisted sailor.

By the time the calendar year closes out, sailors in boot camp will start being issued the green Type III cammies, which officially became the Navy’s working uniform in October 2016.