Navy had trouble covering kickoffs last season. Opponents averaged 23.1 yards per return and broke a few long ones.

The bones of Lt. j.g. Aloysius H. Schmitt, a Catholic priest from St. Lucas, Iowa, were identified by experts with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency as part of a project to put names with the remains of those who died on the ship Dec. 7, 1941.

The monitoring wells near the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Facility were installed to check water quality and evaluate how groundwater moves in the vicinity.

Five of seven of the U.S. Navy's speedy new warships have had engine problems in the past year and four of them are now considered "test" ships that'll rarely, if ever, be deployed.

Where once Craig Candeto’s arsenal included a 20-millimeter rotary cannon and air-to-surface missiles, he now fires off e-mails to square away details of the Yellow Jackets’ travel plans.

The Ghost Ship Harbor team has agreed to donate at least $40,000 of the proceeds to the U.S. Naval Shipbuilding Museum.

Petty Officer Jeff Atherton, 29, was heading home from his job as a mass communication specialist with the Navy on Aug. 26 when he saw a vehicle run off Interstate 40 and flip several times after failing to navigate a curve.

She wrote on Facebook, “On September 19, 2016, while in uniform, I made the conscious decision to not stand for the Star Spangled Banner because I feel like a hypocrite, singing about ‘land of the free’ when, I know that only applies to some Americans."

The Naval Engagement Activity, centered in Da Nang, is a non-combat program which focuses on preventing unplanned hostilities among ships in contested Asia-Pacific waters.

The Navy awarded a California company a $21.5 million contract to complete the security perimeter around Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor's waterfront restricted area.

Two former sailors convicted of rape and murder more than two decades ago are innocent, a federal judge said Monday, adding the "no sane human being" could find the men guilty.

The U.S. and South Korean navies have conducted precision strike drills with guided-missile destroyers, submarines and anti-submarine helicopters in a display of military might against a growing threat from the North.

The Utah was torpedoed by Japanese aircraft in Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

The USS San Juan, the 63rd Los Angeles-class submarine, returned from the European area and visited ports in Norway, Scotland and Spain.

Iranian forces have had a series of tense encounters with U.S. naval vessels over the past year. Iran briefly detained 10 U.S. sailors in January after their boats drifted into Iranian waters.

Two Norfolk-based destroyers that recently completed an eight-month deployment have already returned to international waters to participate in the largest anti-submarine warfare exercise Canada has hosted off its east coast in the past 20 years.

Capt. Rich Meadows became the 44th commanding officer of Oceana Naval Air Station in a ceremony Friday. He relieves Capt. Louis J. Schager.

Crew members have detected a leak on the Zumwalt, the new destroyer built at Bath Iron Works, but the Navy and defense experts say such errors are typical for a first-in-class ship.

Desert Storm-era veteran Kevin Sacco was offered a coat, scarf and blanket the minute he walked inside the U.S. Army Reserve Center on a warm and muggy Friday morning in Myrtle Beach. The 43-year-old who served in the Navy as an operations specialist was down on his luck and homeless just three months ago.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Austin Greening shot 24-year-old Petty Officer 3rd Class Kristopher Klubert at Greening’s off-base Norfolk apartment on March 9, 2013. Greening said he accidentally shot Klubert after he was handed a loaded Colt .45 pistol while he was playing a football video game.

An airman temporarily assigned to Andersen Air Force Base in Guam was found unresponsive on a beach Friday and was pronounced dead later the same day at a military hospital on the island, the Air Force said.

The naval station joined other Navy installations across the country in marking the service’s first Bells Across America for Fallen Service Members ceremony to honor those who died while on active duty.

The announcement was made during a ceremony Thursday with Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy, in Washington, D.C.

The "Messlords" are celebrity chefs who visit military bases and ships around the world to boost servicemember morale. The program is sponsored by Navy Entertainment.

Navy investigators recovered “numerous electronic equipment” that had been used to record two girls as they bathed and used the toilet facilities in the bathroom, the Sheriff's Office said.

A 24-year-old sailor died of noncombat injuries Tuesday aboard the USS Wasp, which is forward-stationed in the Mediterranean Sea in support of the military’s air campaign in Libya, the Defense Department said.

The ship sustained "an engineering casualty" that will require 10-14 days to fix, according to a story from U.S. Naval Institute News, citing a Navy statement.

The outgoing commander of an undersea warfighting center in Connecticut says he has been working to make sure technology being developed for the U.S. Navy's submarine fleet is useful when it gets into sailors' hands.

The USS Zumwalt was supposed to get under way Monday for at-sea training. But as the crew prepared for the voyage, it found a seawater leak in its propulsion system.

The U.S. chief of naval operations is hosting the 22nd International Seapower Symposium from Wednesday through Friday at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport. About 500 people from 106 countries are attending.

The trial for the 2014 murder of 44-year-old Navy Cmdr. Alphonso Doss began Tuesday morning with opening statements.

Army cornerback Brandon Jackson's funeral brought together hundreds of people, including football coach Jeff Monken and one of Monken's closest friends: Navy coach Ken Niumatalolo.

"It's a legacy worth preserving by means of the Navy's highest honor, having a ship bear his name and assigning that ship sponsors that personify his values," Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said.

Anthony Delane Washington, 31, is the first of three people scheduled to go on trial. Police and prosecutors said Washington is the lover of Yolinda Doss, the estranged wife of the victim, Alphonso Mortimer Doss.

Leading national experts have been called to assess a persistent electrical problem on the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, and the Navy needs to work through this and other issues before the ship is delivered.

A Navy commander has pleaded not guilty to attempted rape charges involving a female, off-duty sailor at her home in San Diego.

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Check out some of the tasks necessary to support and conduct flight operations aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.

The Senate's two top defense policy lawmakers want the Navy to make additional major changes to the service's troubled $29 billion Littoral Combat Ship program or risk losing their support for future purchases.

Following the death of Marine Capt. Jeffrey Kuss in June, the team will implement a variety of changes after an investigation found the pilot's errors caused the crash, Navy officials said.

The U.S. Navy has launched a new littoral combat ship in Wisconsin.

The Virginia ship-repair association is pushing back after the Navy awarded a contract for work on a Norfolk-based destroyer to a yard in Pascagoula, Miss., roughly 1,000 miles away.

The USS Wichita is a littoral combat ship, one of the Navy’s fastest, lightest and technologically advanced ships, according to officials at Lockheed Martin, which led the ship-building team.

The new contract adds ships 11 and 12 to the pre-existing 10-ship contract and takes the value of the program to $1.9 billion in total. Austal's growing order book will keep workers at the Mobile, Alabama, yard busy until 2022.

The fatal crash of a Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet that killed Marine Corps Capt. Jeff Kuss was caused by pilot error, weather and fatigue, according to the official findings of a Navy investigation into the June 2 accident.

Rear Adm. James Malloy relieved Rear Adm. Jesse Wilson as the strike group's leader Wednesday during a change-of-command ceremony in the forecastle of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower while it operated in the Persian Gulf, the Navy said.

A murder trial is set to begin Friday in a military court for a sailor already convicted by a civilian court in the same incident: the killing of his best friend while they played a video game. The Navy didn't think he received a severe enough sentence.

There is a maxim about the military: make rank and gain responsibility. Many of the larger responsibilities are given to those with the knowledge and experience that comes from time in and rising through the ranks.

A day after the Philippine president said he plans to halt joint maritime patrols with foreign navies, Japan was trying to make sense of developments, with one senior official saying Tokyo will persevere with a nuanced approach to ties.

The Navy does not keep statistics on the number of children born aboard its ships, but archived media reports show this is not the first time a sailor has had a baby at sea or aboard a ship in a combat zone.

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In Senate committee testimony, the chiefs of the Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Navy complained about anemic budgets and painted bleak pictures of cash-strapped services with aging equipment, under-trained troops and a lack of preparations for war with a major world power such as Russia or China.

America’s strategy for confronting China in the South China Sea is threatening to unravel as the new leader of a key frontline state backs away from military cooperation — including joint naval patrols — with the U.S.

In the works for the past six years, the Ocean Noise Strategy Roadmap is expected to guide NOAA over the next decade as it works to better manage noise in the ocean, officials said.

A top Newport News Shipbuilding official says he's pleased with the pace of construction on the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, which recently bulked up by 900 tons.

The amphibious transport dock ship USS San Antonio responded to a medical emergency involving a Polish crewmember of a cargo vessel in the Gulf of Aden, the Navy said in statement Wednesday.

The incident did an estimated $6,000 to $7,000 in damage at 5:45 a.m. on Sept. 6.

The Kennedy is already beginning to take shape in dry dock, although it won't join the fleet until 2022. A 900-ton component that was recently lifted into place added yet another piece to the mammoth puzzle.

A decommissioned guided-missile frigate went down in about 30,000 feet of water Tuesday during a SINKEX drill connected to Valiant Shield exercises underway near Guam.

Lou De Lancey joined the Navy in 1954 and served aboard the USS Midway and the USS Hanson during the Korean War era. While aboard the Midway, he assisted in the evacuation of more than 18,000 civilians and 15,000 of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist troops to Formosa.

Blake Lyons founded the Victor Echo Tango Foundation, a nonprofit, state-certified veterans organization. As president of the foundation, he helps set up community events and talks with local veterans about what is needed.

The victim, a WWII Navy veteran, was manipulated by callers who falsely informed the 90-year-old that he won $7.5 million in a sweepstakes he never entered.

The city of Norfolk, Virginia is creating a 15-member commission to plan celebrations for the 100th anniversary of Norfolk Naval Station next year. The base was founded in 1917.

The commander of a Guam-based Navy helicopter squadron was arrested Monday in San Diego on charges of attempted rape and assault, according to records from the city sheriff’s department.

Navy Rear Adm. Christopher W. Grady has been tapped as the next commander of the Naples, Italy-based U.S. Sixth Fleet, the operational arm of U.S. Navy efforts in Europe, the Pentagon announced.

Paxton Locklear, 20, was found dead Sept. 2 on the pavement on Diven Arch in Navy housing in Norfolk, Virginia.

Honeywell Aerospace was awarded an $18.3 million, three-year contract to manufacture aircraft brakes for the Navy.

Anticipating the unexpected is a way of life for sailors aboard a deployed aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. But few would have anticipated a baby.

The U.S. Naval Academy's superintendent announced Monday that the school will correct a flaw in its vetting process that allowed a Marine Corps officer to teach there after he had been investigated for having sex with a female midshipman.

Some turned away as hundreds line up to see destroyer at festival in Connecticut.

Attorneys wrapped up the first hearings in 18 months in the USS Cole bombing case Friday with a series of unresolved pretrial defense team challenges to the war court system and still no trial date.

James Stavridis, who served four years as supreme allied commander for NATO in Europe is among those expected to join Democrat Hillary Clinton on Friday for a working session on strategies to combat terrorism.

New Hampshire’s two U.S. senators are applauding news that the Navy plans to spend nearly $33 million on repairs and upgrades to dry docks at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

The Naval Academy's new cybersecurity building will be named after Rear Adm. Grace Hopper, a computing pioneer who helped lay the foundations digital age through her work in the Navy during World War II.

Defense contracts awarded in August reflect the varied work ongoing at Newport News Shipbuilding and its sister shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss.

Navy starting quarterback Will Worth was born into a Navy family and has been groomed to lead from a young age. His grandfather, parents and brother were all involved in the service.

To honor World War II veteran Dell Burt Hall, Wednesday was declared Dell Burt Hall Day in Aberdeen and Brown County, S.D. by Mayor Mike Levsen, and throughout the state by Gov. Dennis Daugaard.

A Virginia Beach man pleaded guilty Wednesday to driving his car into a federal police officer outside the Navy Exchange at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach.

A Russian jet flew within 10 feet of a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft over the Black Sea on Wednesday in what Pentagon officials warned was unsafe flying that risked increasing tensions between the two militaries.

A group of Navy Seabees gained valuable construction experience while helping Navajo families from New Mexico in need of housing.

The aircraft carrier that's now a floating museum is the eighth U.S. Navy ship to carry the name Hornet, a storied history that the new "Hornet Legacy" exhibit will showcase.

In addition to retraining personnel, the Navy is also conducting an investigation into possible engine design issues on several ships.

It was at least the fifth time in the last two weeks the Revolutionary Guard boats, controlled by hard-line, anti-American clerics close to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, harassed U.S. Navy ships.

The commissioning of a ship is a multi-day celebration filled with receptions, gift presentations and other ceremonies. And all of those activities cost money.

Sailors aboard the USS Truxtun, a Navy destroyer docked at Fort Trumbull for the duration of Tropical Storm Hermine, received a special delivery this week.

The Navy destroyer USS Bulkeley contacted the Coast Guard that a sailor aboard was suffering from symptoms suggestive of acute appendicitis.

A Virginia town is honoring Korean War vets on Labor Day as a celebration of their willingness to answer the call of duty and transition from industry to national service.

In delivering the future USS Illinois — sponsored and christened by first lady Michelle Obama — to the Navy last week, Conn.-based manufacturer Electric Boat announced that the nuclear attack submarine had been built more than $100 million below budget.

Clifford “Cory” Fowler, a 33 year-old Navy veteran, was found dead in his Washington home on Feb. 18.

Workers at Bath Iron Works will bid farewell next week to the USS Zumwalt — the most technologically advanced destroyer ever built for the Navy — even as they await word on whether the shipyard won a Coast Guard contract with 1,000 or more jobs at stake.

The U.S. Naval War College has opened a new institute to zero in on Russia's approach to maritime issues as that country continues to assert itself in Ukraine, Syria and elsewhere.

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Fleet Week is underway at the Port of Los Angeles, marking the first time the sea services have brought the popular celebration to the City of Angels.

A former military couple is in jail, accused of sexually assaulting two children over several years in an effort to teach the kids about sex.

The 12 tribes that make up the Kumeyaay Nation want the $1 billion SEAL training center project south of Silver Strand State Beach to be moved a short distance so as not to desecrate what members call a sacred site.

A year ago, Navy and Marine Corps leaders gave a dire warning to Congress: Budget cuts have hurt nondeployed units and could cost lives during a major conflict. The losses happened, but not in combat. Pilots died training at home. Since May, four F/A-18 Hornet or F/A-18E/F Super Hornet crashes involving nondeployed units killed two pilots and destroyed five planes.

Last fall, the Navy Department had a controversial disciplinary case before it: Maj. Jason C. Brezler had been asked by Marine colleagues to submit all the information he had about an influential Afghan police chief suspected of abusing children. Brezler sent a classified document in response over an unclassified Yahoo email server, and he self-reported the mistake soon after. But the Marine Corps recommended that he be discharged for mishandling classified material.

Navy personnel stationed on Okinawa are now required to carry liberty cards, and those visiting there on leave or temporary assignment must carry a copy of their approved paperwork.

Joe Sutter, the Boeing engineer who ushered in the modern era of long-range travel by spearheading the 747 jumbo jet in the 1960s, has died. He was 95.

Lt. Matthew Halliwell and Lt. Cmdr. Kellen Smith leaned on instinct developed by years of training when a steel cable that was supposed to stop their E-2C Hawkeye on the flight deck of the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in March snapped instead.

The Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier program will undergo an independent review at the behest of a key Pentagon official who continues to have concerns about critical systems on the new class of ship.

Former Sen. John Edwards has pledged to support hundreds of U.S. sailors, Marines and airmen who say they were sickened by radioactive fallout from the 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant.

The service is considering locating hundreds of personnel and four MQ-4C Triton drones on the Eastern Shore, but Virginia is competing with Key West Naval Air Station and Mayport Naval Air Station in Florida.