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.
Frank Fogarty knew nothing about nuclear physics on ships when he got pulled from his Korean War submarine duty to interview for a fledgling U.S. Navy program. But by 1957, Fogarty had joined the USS Nautilus crew — first as an engineering officer, and then during 1963-67 as the Nautilus’ fifth commanding officer.
A driver fleeing a traffic stop on Naval Base Guam caused base security officers to stop all traffic at the main gate for nearly three hours.
The Navy on Friday released several documents regarding its data on the health impact of the November 2021 Red Hill fuel spills, just before a federal trial begins Monday in a lawsuit brought by affected families against the federal government alleging the spill has caused long-term health damage.
The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group left Middle East waters and arrived in the eastern Mediterranean Sea on Friday, on the heels of a Pentagon announcement that construction of a humanitarian sea corridor into Gaza is underway.