Navy’s dirt sailors operate at the cutting edge, both of innovation and of risk
By Dave Ress
Daily Press |
Oct 17, 2020 at 8:03 AM
They’re called the Navy’s dirt sailors — but the 20,000 men and women of the Little Creek-based Navy Expeditionary Combat Command get into some high-tech challenges in their small detachments, posted around the world.
Many are working with second-generation drones ― and for some, that means working underwater with them, while for some, it has meant parachuting from a plane, drone in hand, to disarm a bomb or mine. One, command sailor Petty Officer 3rd Class Christopher Rector, was part of the Navy team that designed a new kind of quick-to-build ventilator for COVID-19 patients.
There’s plenty of history to the group, too — at least as new C.O., Rear Adm. Joseph A. DiGuardo Jr., figures it.
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