Despite tough talk between the U.S. and China over the South China Sea, their respective navies interact on a “predictable and professional” basis, a Navy official said.

The last U.S. Navy vessel named for the city of Pittsburgh, a submarine, retired in 2019 after 35 years at sea, but over the weekend the Navy announced that a new ship will bear the city's name.

The Navy’s top officer visited a warship in the Persian Gulf this week after ongoing tensions with Iran led the Pentagon to extend an aircraft carrier group’s deployment to the region.

A Navy SEAL pleaded guilty Thursday to involuntary manslaughter for his role in the hazing death of a U.S. Army Green Beret while the men were stationed in Africa.

The Ron Terwilliger Center for Student-Athletes is a 25,000-square foot facility that celebrates the history and tradition of Navy athletics while simultaneously serving as a testament to the academy's commitment to the physical development of the entire Brigade of Midshipmen.

Jack W. Snyder, who participated as a corpsman in multiple invasions in Europe, Africa, and the Pacific until 1946 and then served in the Air Force from 1957 to 1963, has died at age 94.

Yokota Air Base and Yokosuka Naval Base are one step closer to opening up coronavirus vaccine inoculations for the general population of service members, civilian employees and their families.

Workers in Huntington Ingalls Industries’ new Virginia drone facility will assemble hull structures for the Navy’s new Orca unmanned submarine.

Yokosuka Naval Base said 41 people had tested positive for the coronavirus since Friday. The naval base is monitoring 127 individuals with the virus.

On Monday, the Navy released its “navigation plan,” a road map of the top four priorities that Adm. Michael Gilday said he believes the service must focus on in the next decade.

A case, filed in 2017, says the Navy should foot the $160 million bill to remediate Ordot Dump.

The Rev. Thomas Conway, the heroic chaplain of the ill-fated USS Indianapolis, was awarded the Navy Cross posthumously on Friday for his selfless courage.

If testing proves successful, the Navy could begin installation into a tank at Red Hill as early as late next year.

The U.S. military in Japan as of 6 p.m. Friday reported 67 people newly infected with virus, the majority of them at Yokosuka Naval Base.

The DOD mandate requires service members, civilian employees, contractors and family members to have proof of a negative test result for COVID-19 within 72 hours of departing for their destination.

The largest U.S. naval base in Japan ordered an overnight curfew and other measures to combat a growing cluster of coronavirus infections of unknown origin.

Last week, Los Angeles officials requested that Gov. Gavin Newsom appeal to the federal government to bring the ship and its medical personnel back to the Port of Los Angeles as the region prepares for the anticipated coronavirus surge.

Russia has been reopening old military bases and moving forces in the Arctic, and it operates a large icebreaker fleet. China is increasing its shipbuilding and port infrastructure in the region.

Chief Petty Officer Tony DeDolph, a member of the elite SEAL Team 6, reached an agreement with the Navy to plead guilty to several charges in the June 4, 2017, death of Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar.

The long-delayed guided-missile destroyer USS Daniel Inouye is tentatively scheduled to be commissioned at Pearl Harbor in the fall with a big pier-side ceremony attended by thousands — if COVID-19 is under control.

Six U.S. installations in Japan, including Yokosuka Naval Base, received about 8,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine Dec. 26 and began vaccinating phase 1a personnel: health-care providers, first responders and security forces.

Anyone deemed a close contact to the coronavirus cases at Duncan Street Child Development Center at Yokosuka Naval Base and a second-grade classroom at Bob Hope Primary School at Kadena Air Base will be contacted by health authorities, officials said.

The USS Nimitz will remain in the Middle East following Iranian threats against top U.S. officials, Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller said in a statement Monday, reversing a decision four days ago to bring the ship home.

Following the surprise removal of a Naval Air Station Barbers Point memorial in 2018 and a couple of failed efforts to relocate it, AMVETS Hawaii is again trying to rebuild the pole-mounted scale model P-3 Orion aircraft surrounded by a moss rock wall.

It's a question Los Angeles Times readers started asking once the severity of the present COVID-19 surge became clear: Where is the massive military hospital ship that docked in the Port of Los Angeles last spring so it could relieve local medical centers?

The number of Navy trips through the Taiwan Strait has increased along with tensions between the United States and China in the South and East China seas.

Dustin L. Doyon, a lifelong resident of Suffield, Conn., and nine other sailors were killed when the USS John S. McCain destroyer collided with an oil tanker off the coast of Singapore in the early morning hours of Aug. 21, 2017.

All but three Navy bases have reinstated their travel restrictions due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Pentagon announced Wednesday as military infections surpass 105,000.

The bulk of the new cases reported were at Yokosuka Naval Base.

Naval Air Facility Atsugi reported 17 active coronavirus cases from a recent spike, a spokesman said.

New Year’s Day is a time for resolutions about exercising — and as the anniversary of the founding of Naval Air Force Atlantic 78 years ago, it’s also a chance for Rear Adm. John Meier to reflect that one of his command’s top missions is building muscle memory.

Military personnel used small arms like shotguns to fire at moving targets like clay pigeons over Narragansett Bay. Lead pellet counts offshore ranged up to 14,100 pellets per cubic foot, according to a Navy report

The USS John S. McCain was sent to the Con Dao Islands, about 150 miles south of Ho Chi Minh City.

The Navy says it continues "to firmly believe" that its repair proposal keeping single-wall tanks at the Red Hill fuel farm in Hawaii "provides a safe and effective approach" for ongoing operation of the facility.

The Washington State Parks Commission determined this week that the Navy's special operations training in Deception Pass State Park would not cause significant environmental harm if certain conditions are met.

The ship and its more than 5,500 sailors have been operating off the coast of California since leaving its berth at Naval Air Station North Island Dec. 7. It began sailing west on Wednesday, the Navy said in a statement.

Navy Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, who was selected earlier in December to be the first woman to command a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, has been assigned command of the San Diego-based USS Abraham Lincoln, the Navy announced Wednesday.

Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story's floating drydock, named Dynamic, is 76 years old — the oldest active vessel in the Navy’s fleet after the sailing frigate USS Constitution.

The U.S. Navy's plan to deliver the first vessel in its $128 billion next-generation submarine program on time is at risk by a dependence on inexperienced contractors with spotty quality control track records, according to a congressional watchdog.

The U.S. Navy denied a Chinese claim that the USS John S. McCain was forced from waters near the Spratly Islands.

Navy football will host Air Force on Sept. 11, 2021 with the annual service academy rivalry game commemorating the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the United States.

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It may be a while before anyone in Hampton Roads knows what the incoming Biden Administration thinks about Navy shipbuilding.

About 350 Reagan sailors “are in some form of” quarantine at Yokosuka Naval Base, the USS Ronald Reagan's homeport.

The Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group, which includes an array of support ships, joins the Navy’s USS Hershel “Woody” Williams off the coast of Somalia.

A former Defense Department official was charged in connection with allegations he received $34,000 in illegal gratuity from a private party while serving in a government position, the U.S. Attorney’s central district office in California said.

The bulk of the new coronavirus cases reported by the U.S. military in South Korea and Japan were at Yokosuka Naval Base, where 20 people tested positive since Friday.

USS John S. McCain steamed Tuesday past the Spratly Islands, a disputed chain in the South China Sea.

While the 7th Fleet frequently trains with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, operations like last week's with the French navy are rare.

Lt. Cmdr. Carey Vincent, a flight surgeon assigned to Naval Station Norfolk’s Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 2, hopped onto a training flight Saturday to spread some pre-holiday happiness.

In 2019, China Lake said one of its top concerns was encroachment on its groundwater supply, based on a recent assessment of the aquifer's use, and implied that water shortages could mean the base would have to shut down.

Navy passes through the 110-mile-wide strait typically provoke condemnation from Beijing, which sees Taiwan as a breakaway province and the waterway its territory.

The Nov. 16-Dec. 11 campaign provided Navy corpsmen real-world experience that could come in handy once the coronavirus vaccine is available for the general public, according to Navy officials.

Naval Surface Forces Pacific declined to comment on how many USS Essex sailors were affected by the recent coronavirus outbreak.

The commander of Yokosuka Naval Base said the number of coronavirus patients there is greater now than ever before during the pandemic.

The USS Topeka is slated to soon go into Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for regularly scheduled major maintenance for upgrades and repairs.

The announcement of the Navy’s pilot program comes as Congress looks to mandate the employment of special education attorneys in all service branches to expand support for service members enrolled in the Exceptional Family Member Program.

Kinnick High School at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan will be closed Thursday and Friday.

The U.S. military in Japan announced 13 new coronavirus cases as of 6 p.m. Wednesday, the majority of which were at Sasebo Naval Base.

The vaccine is not yet available to all hands, given the initial “finite supply,” said Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday. Medical personnel and emergency workers “most at risk of exposure” are receiving it first.

U.S. Forces Korea is 'strongly considering raising' its health protection level in light of record-breaking numbers of new coronavirus cases on the peninsula.

Just three days into his first deployment, Airman Apprentice Ethan Garrett Goolsby on Thursday went missing from the USS Theodore Roosevelt, his father wrote in a public Facebook post on Sunday.

Like their civilian counterparts, San Diego's two major military hospitals are experiencing a surge of coronavirus patients as the winter spike in cases affects military members, their families and retirees.

The Navy changed the sailor’s status from missing to deceased after the 55-hour search ended at sunset Saturday, 3rd Fleet said in a statement Sunday.

The game was moved to Michie Stadium from its customary site in Philadelphia because COVID-19 regulations in Pennsylvania would not have allowed the Corps of Cadets and Brigade of Midshipmen to attend.

The Navy and Coast Guard are searching for a sailor from the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt believed to have gone overboard Thursday morning off the coast of Southern California, 3rd Fleet said Friday.

The Pentagon’s latest 30-year shipbuilding plan calls for more ships, and a lot more smaller ones, as well as a major move into unmanned vessels.

Billy Honaker knew the No. 68 would be worn again one day. The Navy football team wouldn't keep it out of circulation forever, and there was a feeling Honaker just couldn't shake: That he might be the one to wear it.

The U.S. military in Japan, as a whole, announced 33 new cases as of 6 p.m. Friday.

Petty Officer 1st Class Jake Farque monitored the patient’s vital signs until the plane reached the Guam airport, and first responders took the patient to U.S. Naval Hospital Guam.

The Navy has established its newest "Tech Bridges" in Hawaii and in Panama City, Fla., with the Hawaii branch expected to be a "super connector " tying together state and local government, industry and academia to solve Navy problems.

Buried in the 4,500-page, $731.6 billion spending plan, which passed the House on Tuesday and is slated for a final vote in the Senate this week, are a series of policy directives that have their roots in Hampton Roads.

Chief Petty Officer Charles T. Briggs was accused of obtaining classified information while he was stationed at Offutt Air Force Base in 2018 and early 2019, and passing that information on to Russian national.

The last activity of the fall semester for midshipmen will be the Army-Navy game Saturday. This is the first time midshipmen will be able to leave Maryland, outside of travel for sports. For some midshipmen, it is the first time they will be able to see their families.

Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, a former Navy helicopter pilot and commander of an amphibious transport dock, is one of six Navy captains recommended for carrier command by the Aviation Major Command Board on Nov. 21.

The U.S. Navy's first patrol craft hydrofoil was launched in 1962 and deactivated in 1985. The USS High Point is no longer seaworthy, but that may be about to change if Neil Beach gets his way.

Randall J. Tilton, a Machinists Mate 1st Class stationed since 2016 at the Naval Submarine Base in Groton aboard the USS South Dakota, faces up to 210 years in prison for production of child pornography.

"Some of that stuff is indelible in my memory," George Coburn said in a phone interview Sunday. "You don't forget something like that."

The Naval Academy is starting to gear up for the annual Army-Navy game, which will take place at West Point this year, but one tradition has already been modified.

In August 1962, in the midst of the tension-filled Cold War, the Navy hyped the High Point not only as the largest hydrofoil in the world but also as a revolutionary, new high-tech weapon in the field of anti-submarine warfare.

On the beaches, in the deepest reaches of the backcountry – even nearly 100 feet underwater – the noise of Navy Growler training jets is unescapable for people and even endangered southern resident orcas, new scientific research shows.

Work is ramping up at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay in preparation for the arrival of the first Columbia-class submarine in 2028.

The State Air Pollution Control Board found that the new facility would not boost pollutants — including sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide — above air-quality standards.

The final version of a defense policy bill agreed on by House and Senate negotiators restores funding for the construction of two Virginia-class submarines, built in Groton, and authorizes billions of dollars for Connecticut's defense industry.

Crew members aboard the San Diego-based USS Rushmore say a quarantine to halt the spread of coronavirus while getting the ship ready for sea has led to a crisis in morale.

Adm. John Aquilino has led U.S. Pacific Fleet, based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, since May 17, 2018

Petty Officer 2nd Class Nathan D. Huff Bishop was a Navy builder assigned to Navy Operational Support Center in Akron. His death was not recorded in the Pentagon’s coronavirus case chart that was updated Wednesday.

Lillian Ngo Usadi, a first-class midshipman, is the Naval Academy's 53rd Rhodes Scholar. Instead of going directly into the fleet as a submarine officer, she will attend Oxford University for two years. Then she will join the Navy.

As the Russian navy keeps pressing into the Atlantic, the United States is reviving the Atlantic Fleet, renaming and refocusing its Norfolk-based Fleet Forces Command.

His day job involves jumping out of helicopters into dangerous waters to rescue people — and it turns out, Petty Officer 1st Class George Parsons III’s willingness to protect others doesn’t stop there. He’s just won the Navy’s highest honor for heroism outside combat, the Navy and Marine Corps Medal.

Navy Fire Controlman 2nd Class Harold F. Trapp, who died at age 24, and Navy Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class William H. Trapp, 23 at the time of his death, were officially accounted for Nov. 24, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced.

A $600 million dry dock recapitalization project that will employ as many as 1,000 workers has begun at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay.

The P-8A Poseidon patrol and reconnaissance aircraft from Patrol Squadron 5 kept eyes on the mariners until a U.S. Coast Guard vessel and a merchant ship arrived to rescue them, according to the Navy.

This year's Navy football uniforms for the Army-Navy game highlight the leadership, service and tradition the Naval Academy has showcased over the past 175 years.

Adm. John Aquilino would replace Adm. Philip Davidson, who since May 2018 has overseen the geographic combatant command that spans an area from the United States to India.

The Navy’s assessment of the damage concluded it would cost more than $3 billion to restore the ship and five to seven years for construction to be completed.