The naval hospital at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan shut down following a report of a suspicious package that was deemed no threat several hours later.

The USS Gerald R. Ford left the Mediterranean Sea, a significant milestone in capping a record-breaking deployment that has seen the aircraft carrier on duty in a range of theaters.

Japan fired an antiship missile outside its territory for the first time, joining American, Philippine and Canadian forces in a maritime exercise near the South China Sea.

The South Korean government is investigating the cause of a fire on a Panama-flagged cargo ship operated by South Korea’s HMM Co. in the Strait of Hormuz.

President Donald Trump said he was pausing the effort for a short period to give time for efforts to finalize a settlement with Iran to end the war.

The ship helped combat “maritime-related terrorism, weapons proliferation, transnational crime, piracy, environmental destruction and illegal seaborne immigration.”

Two Navy destroyers repelled a barrage of Iranian air and surface attacks this week to safely cross the Strait of Hormuz into the Persian Gulf, according to a news report.

Hundreds of U.S. military families who left Bahrain under drone and missile fire earlier this year may soon be headed back, but the timeline and the means for getting them there are still unclear.

The joint exercises included live fire gunnery, maneuvering in formation, air defense, anti-submarine and communications drills.

Navy Capt. Clinton A. Cornell, a 2001 graduate of the Naval Academy, is the school’s 92nd commandant.