The former U.S. Pacific Fleet surgeon testified Tuesday in Hawaii federal court as U.S. attorneys began their defense in a civil suit by military families alleging physical and mental illnesses from consuming tap water contaminated by Navy jet fuel.

U.S. military personnel have completed construction on the floating pier off Gaza’s coast, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Weather conditions make it unsafe to put the dock in place to begin transporting aid into Gaza, but defense officials hope to have it in position later this week.

The USS Ronald Reagan recently steamed out of Tokyo Bay, foreshadowing its final, impending departure from U.S. 7th Fleet.

Hundreds of sailors and Marines held tightly in parade rest formation, lining the massive flight deck of the USS Bataan as it cruised toward Miami, eliciting cheers from onlookers on nearby boats and along the causeway leading into the city’s port.

The decision by the master of the USNS Alan Shepard to leave the bridge and place a junior officer in charge was one of the key reasons for the ship’s grounding, according to a summary of an investigation by U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.

American and Philippine troops blasted targets in the South China Sea on Monday, honing the skills they’d need to deter an invading force.

Military Sealift Command christened its newest ship, the Expeditionary Sea Base USNS Robert E. Simanek (ESB-7), on Saturday in San Diego.

A Norfolk-based sailor injured in a hovercraft collision off Florida coast earlier this week was transported to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Virginia to continue treatment closer to home, according to the Navy.

Flanked by the nation’s top defense officials, Adm. Samuel Paparo took the reins of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command during a ceremony in Hawaii, relieving Adm. John Aquilino.

Thirty sailors and Marines suffered injuries in an amphibious watercraft accident off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla., during a training exercise late Wednesday, Navy officials said.

Brian Jessup, a retired Navy diver, testified in Hawaii federal court Thursday that he and his family experienced numerous health issues, including stomach pains, nausea, dizziness and headaches, as a result of contaminated water at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.

The next America-class amphibious assault ship will be named after the Helmand province campaign during America’s 20-year conflict in Afghanistan, Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro announced.

Dr. Steven Storage said Nastasia Freeman, one of 17 plaintiffs in Feindt vs. United States, suffered health problems that resulted from consuming water tainted by jet fuel in November 2021.

Lawmakers are resisting plans by the Navy to cut the size of its ship and submarine fleet, rallying behind a push to procure an additional attack submarine and raising alarm about impending ship retirements.

The Navy said it will repair the USS Boxer at Naval Station San Diego and might be able to get the vessel to resume its deployment to the Indo-Pacific as early as this summer.

The “Kraken,” or the the GL-6000 Disorientation Research Device, creates realistic motion simulations and has been described as a “spacial disorientation device.” It’s essentially a human-rated centrifuge.

A pair of environmental scientists testified in Hawaii federal court Tuesday that more than 2,000 gallons of jet fuel from a spill at a Navy fuel facility in late 2021 made its way into drinking water used by more than 90,000 residents living near Pearl Harbor.

Lyndon Joel Cosgriff-Flax, 22, was with a harbor security boat team conducting a familiarization exercise on the York River when he died after falling overboard at Naval Weapons Station Yorktown.

Jet fuel contamination of the Navy’s Pearl Harbor drinking water system in late 2021 was too minute and too short-lived to have caused long-lasting medical problems by those exposed to it, an attorney for the U.S. government said in Hawaii federal court.