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Sailor Earns Pipefitting Qualification at TRF Bangor for First Time in 20 Years
July 22, 2025 — Hull Maintenance Technician 1st Class Noah Cooper recently became the first Sailor in nearly two decades at Trident Refit Facility, Bangor (TRFB) to earn a civilian-level brazing qualification... MORE

Hull Maintenance Technician 1st Class Noah Cooper and Capt. Michael Eberlein, commanding officer, TRFB, pose for a photo at TRFB.

TRFB Holds Ribbon Cutting for New Facility
July 22, 2025 — Trident Refit Facility, Bangor’s (TRFB) held a ribbon-cutting ceremony to commemorate the opening of Building 7446 on June 12 at Delta Pier onboard Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor... MORE

TRFB leadership conduct a ribbon cutting during a ribbon cutting ceremony at TRFB.

Trident Refit Facility-Bangor Implements State-of-The-Art Enclosure Streamlining Maintenance
February 10, 2025 — At Naval Base Kitsap – Bangor, nestled amongst the towering pine trees of the Pacific Northwest, are eight of the fourteen Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarines operated by the U.S. Navy. In addition to the world-class Sailors that take these boats to sea, there exists a technically competent workforce dedicated to ensuring that our forces are ready to carry out strategic deterrence and support key national security objectives... MORE

A crane lifts the new Trident Refit Facility, Bangor, paint enclosure onto a submarine at Delta Pier, Naval Base Kitsap, Bangor. (U.S. Navy photo by Lonnie Collier, TRFB Public Affairs)

TRFB's first cold spray success
April 8, 2024 — Welding, electroplating, and epoxy repairs are all effective and proven methods used in-house at Trident Refit Facility, Bangor (TRFB) to incrementally repair and overhaul some of the U.S. Navy’s ballistic missile submarines. The use of these methods have been proven to be effective, and are all accomplished while under stringent maintenance schedules, providing the U.S. with resilient and well-maintained submarines. But what happens when these methods are not ideal to use during a repair process? A group of forward-thinking individuals at TRFB banded together to establish an effective, new procedure to add to TRFB’s ever-growing tool belt: An internal cold spray process... MORE

Surge Maintenance Hull Maintenance Technician Petty Officer 2nd Class Gerardo Vasquez, left, tries out for the first time.

TRFB Sailor prepares to become an Army aviator
March 5, 2024 — With both parents being U.S. Navy veterans, the Navy ethos have always been a part of Machinist’s Mate (Nuclear) 1st Class Nicholas Goldschmidt’s life. Accustomed to the frequent relocations inherent in military life, he learned early on to embrace change, connect with new faces, and thrive in different environments. The influence of his parents’ naval careers led him on a similar path shortly after graduating from high school... MORE

A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flown by Chief Warrant Officer 4 Rick Dean, assigned to U.S. Army Aviation Battalion–Japan, is sprayed with water after Dean's final flight at Camp Zama's Kastner Airfield in Japan, Dec. 1, 2023. Dean served 26 years in the Army, much of them as a helicopter pilot. (Photo Credit: Esther Dacanay, U.S. Army Japan Public Affairs)

TRFB civilian made honorary submariner
February 8, 2024 — When Trident Refit Facility, Bangor, team member Eon Carter-Tripp, a day shift work lead for Repair Department, checked aboard ballistic missile submarine, USS Alabama (SSBN 731), he had only anticipated a 3-day underway. That three days quickly became 10... MORE

TRFB team member Eon Carter-Tripp, a day shift work lead in repair Department, poses for a photo at TRFB.

The TRFB Blitz: TRFB Represents for Team Navy
January 30, 2024 — The regional Navy flag football team suffered a heartbreaking loss to Army in their 23rd annual flag football game, losing 35-28 in a thrilling, triple overtime tilt at Joint Base Lewis-McChord’s Cowan Stadium Dec. 8... MORE

Machinist’s Mate (Auxiliary) 1st Class Scott Drake

The Leadership Continuum: ELD Program Shapes Tomorrow's Leaders
January 26, 2024 — In September 2016, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO), U.S. Navy Adm. John Richardson, issued a transformative document entitled "One Navy Team”. This document underscored the critical importance of naval leadership and called on Sailors to leverage diversity as a strength. Richardson urged the Navy to actively practice inclusivity and to remain open to diverse perspectives, emphasizing that leaders and teams who embrace diversity will achieve maximum performance and readiness for decisive operations and combat... MORE

Chief Electronics Technician (Nuclear) Brett Wigginton

Assistant Secretary of the Navy (RD&A) Visits Units in Pacific Northwest
November 17, 2020 — Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research Development, and Acquisition James F. Geurts visited Commander, Submarine Group 9 and other strategic-deterrent support units in the Pacific Northwest, Nov. 17.Geurts’ visit comes two weeks after the office of ASN (RD&A) awarded a $9.47 billion contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat to officially... MORE

Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research Development, and Acquisition James F. Geurts tours a submarine trainer at Trident Training Facility Bangor, Nov. 17. As the authority for all Navy acquisition functions, programs and weapons systems, Geurts visited strategic-deterrent units in the Pacific Northwest to see current operations, training and maintenance facilities fist-hand, and to discuss ongoing preparations and planning for the new Columbia class of ballistic-missile submarines.

TRF Bangor Command Master Chief wins leadership award
September 16, 2020 — SILVERDALE, Wash. (Sept. 16, 2020) – Command Master Chief Petty Officer T. R. Glazner, from Lexington, North Carolina, assigned to Trident Refit Facility, Bangor, was presented with the Naval Submarine League’s 2020 Fleet Master Chief Frank A. Lister award, Sept. 16.The Fleet Master Chief Frank A. Lister Award for Exceptional Leadership and... MORE

Command Master Chief Petty Officer T.R. Glazner, from Lexington, North Carolina, assigned to Trident Refit Facility, Bangor, stands alongside his wife, Arwen, and children, Wyatt and Addisyn, after accepting the Naval Submarine League’s 2020 Fleet Master Chief Frank A. Lister award, Sept. 16.

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