The USS Kyle Carpenter will honor the Marine from South Carolina who was 21 when in 2010 he shielded a fellow Marine from a grenade on a rooftop in Afghanistan.

When the sailor was reported missing Monday, the carrier and the warships in its strike group broke off from an exercise to conduct a search.

The aircraft carrier USS George Washington and its strike group of warships and aircraft are searching the Timor Sea off Australia for a sailor reported missing Monday, the Navy confirmed.

Ninety years to the day of the first flight of the B-17, one of the last surviving Flying Fortress bombers roared into Boeing Field where it all began.

Two Russian Tu-95 Bear bombers and two Russian Su-35 Flanker fighter jets flew into the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone, a buffer area outside of American and Canadian airspace where foreign military and commercial aircraft are monitored.

The Navy plans to spend up to $250 million to upgrade a pier at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor, Wash., to serve new ballistic missile and attack submarines. The base is homeport to the Navy’s largest number of ballistic missile submarines.

Adm. Kevin Lunday, the Coast Guard’s acting commandant, and other service leaders said the infusion of funds was the largest one-time boost that the service has received since it was founded in 1790. 

California National Guard soldiers arriving in Humvee military vehicles backed a sweep of a park in a Los Angeles neighborhood heavily populated by immigrants, according to L.A. Mayor Karen Bass.

Eielson Air Force Base, located near Fairbanks, was named in June by the Defense Department as the preferred site for the reactor. Pentagon officials hope to have it built and running by late 2028.

Petty Officer 2nd Class Noah Tobin was taking part in the parachute course at the Naval Special Warfare Advanced Training Command. He was qualified at a special warfare boat operator.