Military prosecutors levied a slew of charges including murder against four U.S. special operators accused of strangling Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar to death during a June 2017 deployment in West Africa.

A 15-year civilian employee at Naval Base Coronado is suing the U.S. Navy, claiming her supervisors tolerated long-running sexual-harassment and then demoted her instead of the alleged harasser.

The Navy's economic impact in Hampton Roads grew by nearly $600 million for the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2017, and for the third year in a row surpassed the $10 billion mark.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Steven Garcia was originally charged with two counts of abusive sexual contact causing bodily harm but pleaded down to the assault charges in a pre-trial agreement with prosecutors.

Naval Special Warfare plans to triple the amount of small-unit intermediate and advanced training conducted by SEALs and other special operations forces on non-federal lands in Hawaii, with overall training expanding from Oahu and Hawaii island to Kauai, Maui, Molokai and Lanai.

A taxi driver told Portuguese police that two American sailors assaulted him and took his phone after he picked them up in Lisbon, the Portuguese news outlet Cofina Media reported.

Navy ships arrived at Brunei’s Muara Naval Base this week for the next leg of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training, which will include operations in the hotly contested South China Sea.

Jeffrey Breslau admitted to writing and reviewing documents; sending at least 135 emails of advice; and offering 14 “talking points” to prepare defense contractor Leonard Glenn “Fat Leonard” Francis before his meetings with high-ranking U.S. Navy personnel.

Dorothy Jones served in the Navy during World War II and was involved in classified communications. Her work was so secret that she never talked about it to anyone outside of her family -- and even then only sparingly.

Defense lawyers in the 9/11 case arrived at Guantanamo for a week-long pretrial hearing to find a mold infestation in their top-secret work spaces at the Pentagon's makeshift, expeditionary war court complex. Navy health and safety inspectors were called to the scene Sunday, Veterans Day.

The Navy’s top Europe and Africa commander spoke Sunday at Flanders Field American Cemetery in Belgium in honor of the armistice forged 100 years ago and the thousands of U.S. servicemembers who died in “the war to end all wars.”

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor helped christen a U.S. Navy ship on Saturday in Mobile.

Navy shipbuilder Bath Iron Works celebrated construction of a new warship Friday with U.S. Sen. Susan Collins in attendance.

The first prototype of the Navy’s submarine-hunting catamaran-style drone ship is undergoing testing out of Pearl Harbor this month.

The U.S. and Bangladesh navies are training together in a series of bilateral exercises aimed at strengthening professional skills and relationships across South and Southeast Asia.

The surveillance, reconnaissance and lethality that nuclear-powered U.S. submarines provide has gone unparalleled by rivals; however, a changing landscape of military power in the Pacific presents a challenge to the Navy’s long-dominant submarine force, leaders say.

Additional details released this week about a drug ring run by USS Ronald Reagan sailors revealed that the number of servicemembers involved totals 15.

A pair of USS Ronald Reagan sailors is facing charges that include the possession and distribution of a controlled substance, according to criminal charge sheets filed Aug. 30 and a Navy official.

Two unsafe passes by a Russian fighter jet put a U.S. military aircraft at risk during flight operations over the Black Sea, Navy officials said Monday.

Among the hundreds gathered Thursday to celebrate the opening of state-of-the-art labs and offices at Naval Support Facility Dahlgren was a man considered a founding father of the Submarine Launched Ballistic Missile program.

The littoral combat ship USS Wichita will be commissioned at a ceremony on Jan. 12 at Naval Station Mayport, Fla., near Jacksonville.

Officials with the Board of Water Supply and environmental watchdogs have been skeptical of the Navy’s contention that there haven’t been other leaks at the facility near Pearl Harbor since 1988.

The Navy’s female officers and chief petty officers last week ditched their “bucket” caps, a dress-uniform staple for women of these ranks since World War II.

Officials overseeing the cleanup of the Concord Naval Weapons Station tried to reassure City Council members this week that the arduous task of removing toxic materials left behind by the Navy is on the right track.

The endangered North Atlantic right whale were nearly hunted into extinction by the 1890s and today there are only about 450 left. The Navy is expanding the area it limits the use of sonar and explosives as part of an effort to help protect the species.

The U.S. Navy is proposing a 20 percent cut in its planned fleet of new hovercraft being built by Textron to bring Marine and Army forces and equipment ashore from amphibious warfare vessels.

The littoral combat ship to be named USS Sioux City left Marinette, Wisconsin on Oct. 23 and is making its way to Annapolis, where it will dock at Dewey Field on Nov. 10 for its commissioning on Nov. 17.

You notice the stillness, most of all, once the nuclear-powered submarine USS Annapolis drops beneath the choppy surface offshore. The unwieldy-looking vessel cuts through the water like a cruising Cadillac.

Curtis Adams, who was stationed at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado, was shot and killed on a California highway on the evening of Oct. 27 after he and his girlfriend pulled over to help someone they believed to be a stranded motorist.

A 28-year-old Navy man was hit in the head with a baseball bat and suffered head and spinal injuries early Monday morning after he got into an altercation with a man in Barrio Logan, police said.

Hawaii-based Navy divers from Mobile Diving Salvage Unit 1 recently completed the removal of 250,000 gallons of fuel oil from a captured World War II German cruiser that survived two atomic tests in 1946 but capsized and sank later that year at Kwajalein Atoll.

The influx of thirsty American servicemembers over the weekend caused a beer shortage in many of the popular drinking establishments in the small country. Almost 7,000 sailors and Marines were in Iceland for the exercise.

A good Samaritan who stopped on Interstate 15 to provide assistance to a man who appeared to be a stranded motorist was fatally shot as soon as he got out of his car early Saturday, San Diego police said.

Navy training using sonar and explosives around Hawaii presents risks to thousands of whales and dolphins every year from temporary hearing loss, but the impacts are unlikely to lead to any long-term consequences for marine mammal populations, the service said in a new report.

A non-partisan congressional study describes formidable challenges in cost and schedule as the Navy seeks to expand its fleet to 355 ships.

A Rand Corp. report requested by the Department of Defense and published last month offered a glimpse at where sexual assault was happening in the military, but experts say it failed to answer one of the most important questions: Why?

Navy sailors on the USS John Finn, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, intercepted the test missile off the west coast of Hawaii using a Standard Missile-3 Block IIA, part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system, the MDA said in a statement.

The Navy and the Air Force take to the Florida skies for the next two weeks as each finishes up its air show season for 2018.

Papua New Guinea’s Lombrum Naval Base was built by U.S. forces in 1944 on Manus Island, an 800-square-mile rock in the Bismarck Sea north of New Britain. It is already being upgraded to accommodate four Guardian-class coastal patrol ships that Australia is providing for the South Pacific nation.

A pair of Iranian fast boats approached the USS Essex in the Persian Gulf on Friday as the top U.S. general in charge of operations throughout the Middle East visited sailors and Marines aboard the amphibious assault ship, Pentagon officials said.

Vice Adm. Scott Stearney, the commander of U.S. Naval forces in the Middle East, said American officials had conducted a preliminary examination of the weapons but would wait to determine how to handle them until the U.N. investigators reach their own conclusions.

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Life as a submariner is inherently secretive. That's good for sneaking up on enemies, but it doesn't do the silent service any favors when it comes to helping Americans understand what submarines are capable of or what their crews do during deployments.

The Navy is proposing to spend millions of dollars to connect the city water system to a handful of homes with polluted wells near its landing field in rural Chesapeake, hoping to remedy a problem caused by the Navy's use of a firefighting foam that contains potentially harmful chemicals.

Rough seas near Iceland damaged a section of the USS Gunston Hall and injured some sailors, forcing the ship and the USS New York to dock in Reykjavik earlier this week.

Military installations in the Northern Marianas remain “mission capable,” the Navy said Thursday as crews cleared debris from a storm that tied for the strongest so far this year.

The sailors — whose names were not released — were among 12 hurt during an emergency landing on the flight deck shortly after takeoff on Oct. 19.

In a 2003 interview, the Rev. Edward McElduff said he was restless after the war and began reflecting on the fact that he survived while so many others didn’t. “The Lord had saved me for something. He saved me, and he took care of me in so many other ways. So I decided, I'm going to give the Lord a try.”

Ship crews and waterfront workers at the home of the 7th Fleet can get a fast-food fix 24/7 at a renovated food court that opened this week at the Fleet Recreation Center.

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The stormy waters of the Norwegian Sea, where the USS Harry S. Truman has become the first U.S. carrier to train in decades, are adding rare challenges to flight operations.

The master-at-arms was at the base's security training building when the shooting happened about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, Naval Station Norfolk spokeswoman Kelly Wirfel said.

The first SSC — dubbed Craft 100 and earmarked for research and development — was supposed to be delivered in 2017, a NAVSEA official said.

The Navy sailed two Japan-based ships through the Taiwan Strait on Monday amid ongoing tensions over freedom of navigation in the western Pacific and political strains over trade with China.

Former acting Secretary of the Navy Sean J. Stackley said that he came up with a “pretty simple checklist” for figuring out what he wanted to do with the rest of his life after nearly 40 years in the Navy.

Film tells the story of a submarine captain who "is on the hunt for a U.S. sub in distress when he discovers a secret Russian coup is in the offing, threatening to dismantle the world order."

As Naval Support Facility Dahlgren celebrated its 100th anniversary Friday with pomp, circumstance and speeches about its litany of technical achievements, Les Greeley's memories centered on the four generations of his family that have worked on the base.

Navy Cmdr. Troy Amundson, a decorated combat pilot, told the judge that, at the time, he didn’t realize handing off Navy information to a contractor in exchange for prostitutes and other bribes was illegal. He joins the ranks of more than a dozen other Navy officials in what has become the worst corruption scandal to hit the Navy in decades.

The USS George H.W. Bush will be open for public tours on Saturday at Naval Station Norfolk as part of Fleet Fest. The destroyer USS James E. Williams also will be open for tours.

Robert Almquist has fond memories of his time on the USS Oakland during World War II. His home in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin is a testament to that; it’s a museum of sorts filled with figurines, military citations and plaques from different war ships. But one thing is missing for this 95-year-old veteran.

The Pentagon's No. 2 civilian is reviewing a Navy proposal to buy the third and fourth vessels in the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier program under one contract to assess whether the arrangement will save money as the service claims.

The Navy is investigating what caused an HH-60H Seahawk helicopter to crash into another on an Okinawa runway earlier this month.

Twelve people were injured Friday when a Navy MH-60 Seahawk helicopter crashed on the USS Ronald Reagan’s flight deck in the Philippine Sea, according to Task Force 70 spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Matt Knight.

U.S. Marines have kicked off a training operation in Iceland, conducting an air assault drill and battling the elements in the island nation’s picturesque environment.

On July 27, an MH-53E Sea Dragon was hovering about 6 to 8 feet above the flight line at Naval Air Facility Atsugi when a window fell off the aircraft. No one was hurt, and the helicopter landed safely afterward.

The U.S. Navy and Marines are training with their Italian and French counterparts in the Mediterranean Sea, during an exercise that coincides with a recent Russian navy buildup in the region.

The former head of oceanography and meteorology for the Navy argued for more funding for research to understand the impact of climate change.

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Navy divers finished recovering an estimated 250,000 gallons of oil Monday from a captured warship that survived World War II and two atomic bomb tests before sinking 72 years ago.

A prototype application seeks to automate logging dives from start to finish, with a process that's similar to using a fitness tracker. It's the brainchild of the senior dive advisor at Navy Expeditionary Combat Command.

The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy medevaced an 83-year-old male Canadian passenger from a cruise ship about 150 miles north of Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii on Sunday.

Seaman Grace Kayla Davis-Marcheschi, a Builder Constructionman from Oregon, was shot at a military housing area near Keesler Air Force Base early Saturday, spokesmen have confirmed.

A video posted to social media on Friday showed a naked man running around a parking lot at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, Va., "attempting to get in a vehicle with strangers." Police later tased the combative suspect.

Numbering more than 11,000 civilians and military personnel, the population of Naval Support Facility Dahlgren could hit 20,000 in little more than a decade.

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Florida's Republican Gov. Rick Scott often seems to have handy the dark-blue cap emblazoned with "NAVY" on the front. But now, the hat is being used as a target on Scott's record when it comes to veterans and health care.

With the Navy preparing for a massive, five-year renovation of what is already its biggest ammunition-loading facility for the Pacific fleet, dozens of neighbors and boaters turned out Thursday for an informal briefing on the sevice's plans.

Mona Gunn realizes she's fortunate to have a support system in place when she misses her son Cherone, who was killed in the 2000 attack on the Norfolk-based USS Cole in Yemen.

hief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson was rebuked on Friday over his mishandling of a case involving the misconduct of an aide at a boozy Christmas party inside the Pentagon during which Richardson's spokesman, dressed in a Santa Claus outfit, slapped a civilian woman’s buttocks.

The Professional Flight Instructor program will provide well-qualified pilots and naval flight officers a chance to continue as flight instructors later in their careers, according to a naval administrative message issued Sept. 28.

Army Gen. Robert B. Abrams was confirmed to become the next commander of U.S. Forces Korea in a series of Senate approvals for military nominees during a marathon session Thursday.

Much has been written over the years about the fabled 1963 Navy football team. That legendary squad ranks as one of the greatest in Navy history and holds a special place in college football folklore.

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The Category 4 storm, the strongest to ever hit the Florida Panhandle, tore roofing from aircraft hangars and mangled buildings at Tyndall, just outside Panama City, Fla., according to Air Force officials.

Authorities said that Navy SEAL instructors and trainees were conducting a nighttime qualification dive on July 23 when Scott Weaver opened fire on them with his pellet gun. Weaver faces one year in county jail when he is sentenced Nov. 1.

Sailors from two Navy ships — the USNS Wally Schirra and USS Decatur — rescued a dozen fishermen stranded this week in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin announced Tuesday that the next littoral combat ship built in Wisconsin will be named USS Beloit “to honor the city of Beloit for its contributions to the U.S. Navy and America’s national security.”

Luis Martin Mijares Acero was a Navy petty officer 3rd class who was a day away from his first deployment, while Richard William Watts was an Army veteran two days away from his 59th birthday when they both drowned in Virginia Beach.

The USS Harry S. Truman Strike Group and its 6,000 servicemembers will join NATO’s largest military drill since 2002 later this month as allies test their ability to defend a member state, the U.S. Navy’s top admiral in Europe said.

Wichita City Hall and Sedgwick County government are moving full steam ahead on a plan to donate $50,000 of public money to the commissioning of a new Navy warship that will bear the city’s name on its stern.

The mom of Navy veteran Pieter Hanson took to Twitter on Saturday, making #HimToo trend, but perhaps not for reasons she might have imagined.

The USS Michael Murphy stopped over the weekend in Papua New Guinea, which is preparing to host a major economic summit of 21 Pacific Rim nations.

Along with the ship’s highest-ranking enlisted member, the USS Billings' top officers are in Montana to meet with Billing’s commissioning committee, tasked with raising as much as $350,000 to celebrate the ship’s seaworthiness at a location and date still to be determined.

Navy Personnel Command’s MyNavy Career Center, which opened late last month at Naval Support Activity Mid-South in Millington, Tenn., is “designed for those who may be multiple time zones away on the other side of the globe.”

While Petty Officer 3rd Class Frederick Cooper Jr. was not guilty on charges that he left his duties and robbed three three sailors on Naval Station Norfolk due to lack of surveillance footage, he was found guilty of committing an additional robbery off-base the same day.

A Navy veteran from Utah has admitted to federal authorities that he mailed suspicious packages this week addressed to two top Pentagon officials and President Donald Trump, Justice Department officials said Thursday.

Big and small libraries across the United States marked Banned Books Week recently with awareness campaigns celebrating the freedom to read in America, and so did a base with two libraries — one for the war on terror prisoners, the other for base residents.

Naval website gCaptain.com published a series of photos Tuesday showing the USS Decatur and the People’s Republic of China destroyer Luyang passing each other during Sunday's confrontation.

The USS Wasp arrived in Singapore on Tuesday, a week after its strike group of 2,200 sailors and Marines were denied a port visit to Hong Kong by Beijing.

The USS Blue Ridge returned to sea Tuesday after two years of maintenance, upgrades and repairs, leaving empty its berth near a major base intersection where its sat since leaving dry dock in January.