Mark D. Faram

HN Allyson Jeanette Thompson and HN Joan Hunter Barrett Fender can be seen and heard laughing and joking as they mishandle an hours-old newborn baby.

And the massive hurricane prompts the Navy to move Mayport-based fleet to new locations.

Two warships underway look to Florida after no call comes from Texas to support relief efforts there.

Irma, now classified as a Category 5 storm, is expected to pass just to the north of Guantanamo.

The Navy is launching a two-year transition that will put the entire fleet in green uniforms and phase out the unpopular “blueberries.”

A Navy commander was charged at an Article 32 hearing with accepting meals, alcohol and prostitutes from Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis.

National Guard units from Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, New York and Oklahoma are also helping those left in the storm’s wake.

The two collisions — and a total of 17 sailors lost at sea this summer — have raised concerns about whether this generation of surface fleet officers lack the basic core competency of their trade.

Even after the Pentagon opened up all military jobs to women, female sailors remain noticeably absent from more than a dozen Navy career fields.