Greeted with a standing ovation, Vice President Mike Pence addressed the Naval Academy graduation Friday morning, where about 1,000 midshipmen became commissioned officers.

The 44 members of the U.S. Navy B-1 Band cracked the color barrier, leaving an impression on the Chapel Hill community during their two-year service on UNC's campus during World War II. On Saturday, the community will commemorate their contribution with a historical marker.

Two Chinese jets intercepted a Navy P-3 Orion on Wednesday, with one of the jets coming as close as 200 yards of the surveillance plane, a U.S. defense official confirmed.

If the Navy gets what President Donald Trump’s budget requested, one item on its 2018 shopping list will be 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles, including 66 to replenish those fired in the last year at targets in Syria and Yemen, according to the service.

The Navy’s unveiling of a mandatory new “fitness suit” met with a tepid response from sailors based in Japan on Friday.

The White House budget office and the Navy are rushing to find an extra $600 million to buy a second Littoral Combat Ship after including only one in the budget that President Donald Trump proposed this week.

Two U.S. Navy planes came in fast over a bridge in Dong Phong Thuong, North Vietnam, in June, 1965. Cloud cover forced them to descend extremely low. The enemy was waiting.

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A Navy officer accused of attempted sexual assault of a minor following an Okinawa sting operation was acquitted of five related charges by a court martial jury on Thursday.

The Navy sailors wrongly convicted in the rape and murder of an 18-year-old woman in 1997, have threatened to sue the city in Virginia for $68 million or more – a potentially catastrophic threat to the municipal budget.

A Navy destroyer sailed near a disputed South China Sea island controlled by China, the first such operation since Donald Trump became president, a media report said.

The future aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford left Norfolk on Wednesday for acceptance trials, bringing it one step closer to joining the fleet later this year, Naval Sea Systems Command said in a news release.

With a presidential budget request that seeks to restore naval readiness, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said Wednesday that he is “hopeful” the Navy is heading in the right direction after a long stretch of wear on its ships, aircraft and sailors.

The children of a 72-year-old Navy veteran have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the VA Palo Alto Health Care System in California.

A 68-year-old Wisconsin man who falsely claimed to be a Navy SEAL wounded four times in Vietnam has been sentenced to four years in prison for theft and faking paperwork. He also claimed he was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.

The head of Japan’s Self-Defense Forces expressed concerns on Tuesday about North Korea’s progress in building a long-range, nuclear-tipped missile capable of striking the United States.

U.S. Naval Forces Central Command has completed the 2017 International Maritime Exercise, which included simulations of threat scenarios that have occurred in the 5th Fleet area of operations, NAVCENT said Monday.

Sailors should expect less notice — just two months — when it’s time for them to move to a new duty station, the Navy announced Monday.

Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Keithley’s moment of inspiration came during a drone demonstration by graduate students at the University of Hawaii. Why couldn’t the Navy use drones to find sailors who have fallen overboard?

The USS Frank E. Evans was participating in a nighttime training exercise in the South China Sea when it turned into the path of an Australian aircraft carrier and was split in half.

The Massachusetts was built between July of 1939 and October of 1941. The ship went out to sea trials in May of 1942. Just six months later, the ship steamed into Casablanca Harbor and won its first battle.

BAE Systems Norfolk shipyard laid off more than 50 workers on Friday, the first of an estimated 300 or so workers to be let go by the end of June.

Two months out from their home port of Pearl Harbor, the crew of the destroyer USS O'Kane has a top priority as they visit Juneau for five days. "It's food," said Cmdr. Colby Sherwood, Commanding Officer of the O'Kane. "Food and booze," clarified Rhiannon Ladwig, a sailor sitting in the O'Kane's mess on Monday.

No Navy surface ship throws a harder punch than the Bunker Hill, a cruiser armed with a high-tech battery of missile tubes and advanced sensors that probe for faraway targets to destroy. The Bunker Hill is slated to deploy this autumn alongside the Roosevelt, and then its lifespan wanes. The Navy plans to decommission the Ticonderoga-class cruiser in 2019, mothballing it after 33 years of service.

Seaman Apprentice Savannah Cagle and Airman 1st Class Gabriel Antonio Fuentes-Lebron died while riding on a motorcycle that collided with a car in Chatan town, Okinawa, according to U.S. military officials.

The U.S. Navy will be searching for World War II-era explosives on the ocean floor near an Alaska island in June.

The handsome young president told the midshipmen to stand at ease — none of them did. "Perhaps the plebes will. Did you explain that to them?" President John F. Kennedy joked to the Naval Academy leadership. "That comes later in the course."

In a rare move, retired Rear Adm. Patrick J. Lorge said he wrongly let the undue political and military influences wrongly color his decision-making in a San Diego-based Navy SEAL’s sex-crimes conviction.

The Navy has explained how it spilled 94,000 gallons of jet fuel around Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach: Officials say a switch was left in the wrong position overnight.

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Lexi Thompson shot a 6-under 65 to take the first-round lead in the Kingsmill Championship on Thursday, a day after sky diving with Navy SEALs onto the course.

The Army-green megaphone is in pristine condition and features a large control box that housed a car battery. The actual speaker is about twice the size of modern ones.

A sailor and an airman were killed after a head-on collision between a motorcycle and a car Thursday night in Chatan town, Okinawa, U.S. military officials said.

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The drive, 26-year-old Navy veteran Richard Rojas, told officers he was hearing voices and expected to die, according to two law enforcement officials. He had been arrested at least twice previously for driving while intoxicated, once in 2008 and once in 2015.

The Navy has fired two commanders of a San Diego-based ship after maintenance problems were detected in the USS Anchorage's propulsion system.

Rear Adm. Phillip Sawyer is currently the deputy commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, headquartered in Hawaii. His experience includes command of Pacific Fleet’s submarine forces, as well as an earlier command of the Yokosuka-based submarine Group 7.

Robert Gilbeau was sentenced to 18 months in prison for lying to federal agents about his part in the worst corruption scandal in Navy history, making him the highest-ranking officer convicted so far in an investigation that has ensnared more than 200 people.

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For 14 hours, the plebes crawled, pulled, ran, dove and climbed their way through the Sea Trials on Tuesday — an annual Naval Academy tradition where the freshmen compete in intense physical and mental obstacles.

America needs more warships -- and must build them faster -- to keep up with other countries that are spending heavily on maritime prowess, according to the U.S. Navy's chief of operations.

Compressed saucers of trash about 20 inches in diameter have washed ashore in Kill Devil Hills, N.C. The disks are consistent with those made on Navy ships to compress plastic waste for easy storage — but the ships are not supposed to dump plastic into the ocean.

A South Texas company has finished dismantling one former U.S. aircraft carrier and is about to take delivery of another at the Port of Brownsville.

Sailors found guilty of sharing sexually explicit images online without the subject’s consent will face mandatory separation from the service, the Navy announced Tuesday in an administrative message.

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs will open a new prosthetics lab in Oceanside to serve the estimated 7,000 veterans and military patients who need amputee or prosthetics care in North County.

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The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan departed its Yokosuka homeport Tuesday for a scheduled patrol of the Asia-Pacific region, amid concerns about North Korea and questions about how the White House will address China’s claims to the South China Sea.

Neighbors want to know what effects they can expect from the 94,000 gallons of jet fuel that spilled at Oceana Naval Air Station last week.

Although they’re young officers, the warfare tactics instructors known as "Witties" are heralds of tactical innovation — smart, charismatic and driven teachers who are supposed to make everyone around them better, even captains and admirals.

The Navy recently tested its newest and largest amphibious-assault ship’s ability to defend against small, unmanned attack boats.

A public information session will be held Monday to address citizen questions about the 94,000 gallons of jet fuel that spilled at Oceana Naval Air Station Wednesday.

The USS Ronald Reagan’s departure has been delayed due to an unspecified issue aboard the aircraft carrier, Navy officials said Monday.

The USS Abraham Lincoln's multibillion-dollar overhaul includes upgrades that enable the Lincoln to become the first nuclear-powered carrier capable of accommodating the Navy’s F-35C Lightning II aircraft, which will eventually replace F/A-18 jets.

Officials working to clean up about 94,000 gallons of jet fuel spilled at an air station in Virginia Beach are urging residents to avoid recreational activities like fishing in the area until their work is done.

President Donald Trump says new catapults designed for the Navy's next-generation aircraft carriers are so complicated "you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out" and wants a return to the older steam-powered system.

Sailors will be assessed a year after they arrive at their duty station and will receive year-round counseling. The changes, resulting from officer and enlisted feedback, will update an evaluation system developed in 1996

A sailor based in Portsmouth who was last seen in Yosemite National Park a week ago didn’t have a vehicle with him and left behind belongings at his campsite, according to park officials.

Tens of thousands of gallons of jet fuel spilled from a tank at Naval Air Station Oceana and onto a road outside the base, which police shut down Thursday while environmental cleanup begins, according to the Navy.

The clinic is the Navy’s first in Hampton Roads and follows others in San Diego and Mayport, Fla. San Diego’s walk-in clinic has seen more than 4,000 patients since it opened in February 2016, according to Naval Medical Center San Diego data.

The body of Maine native Kyle Milliken, the Navy SEAL killed in Somalia last week, has been returned to the United States, a Navy spokesman said.

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Deep below an aircraft carrier’s flight deck, where jet fighters zoom off to bomb enemy targets, engineering crews carry out the unglamorous work that’s vital to the mission and the ship’s survival.

Alexander Joseph Sevier traveled to Yosemite alone and arrived in the park on May 1. He works at the Navy Medical Center in Portsmouth, Va.

The U.S. Navy will still challenge claims by nations like China to exclusive access in the South China Sea, Pacific Fleet Commander Scott Swift said, insisting a hiatus in "freedom of navigation" patrols doesn't mean the disputed waterway is a lower priority for the Trump presidency.

Sam Welty's planning a new military tribute mural in Virginia Beach. The artist never gave up, even after his nearly 12,000-square-foot mural of Navy jets flying above the USS Enterprise aircraft carrier was painted over last year.

The Navy SEAL killed in Somalia Thursday has been identified as Senior Chief Petty Officer Kyle Milliken of Falmouth, Maine. He was 38.

Mobile, Ala.-based shipbuilder Austal will have to wait years before finding out if it will be awarded a contract to build the U.S. Navy's next generation of frigates, according to a press release Wednesday.

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Fielding teams at the top tier of college sports — most prominently, football — has long been a point of pride for Army, Navy and Air Force, but over the past several decades, officials overseeing the academies have responded in starkly different ways when the pros have come calling.

Huntington Ingalls Industries on Thursday reported lower first-quarter profits for 2017, but President and CEO Mike Petters said he was satisfied with the company's performance and the recent budget deal in Congress.

A Navy SEAL was killed Thursday in Somalia while accompanying Somali National Army soldiers on a raid targeting a remote al-Shabab compound just outside Mogadishu, U.S. defense officials said Friday.

Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin pleaded guilty to illegally mishandling and communicating defense information at his court-martial Thursday, but maintained his innocence of other espionage counts against him.

A massive Islamic State assault here a year ago led to a fierce firefight and the death of a Navy SEAL, one of just five U.S. combat deaths in Iraq since the U.S. launched military operations against ISIS in August 2014.

Petty Officer 1st Class Gregory Kyle Seerden, 31, was arrested April 3 in San Diego, where he is stationed with SEAL Team 1. He is charged with recording himself molesting a sleeping child.

The Navy held an open house Tuesday night in Poulsbo, Wash. to inform the public of its plans to expand the SEAL training area. Submersible insertion and extraction training has been conducted mostly invisibly here for 30 years, including since 2014 at Scenic Beach, Illahee and Blake Island state parks in Kitsap County.

The ship, designed and manufactured at the Newport News shipyard, was decommissioned in February, formally ending more than 50 years of service to the country.

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Northern Edge is the largest military exercise in Alaska and involves about 6,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and other personnel, plus nearly 200 aircraft and several ships. Participants will test their skills in simulated combat in a remote swath of the Interior and the Gulf of Alaska. The U.S. Air Force's Alaskan Command is leading the exercise.

The native New Yorker, whose image for decades was interwoven with his brash hometown, is making his first trip back to Manhattan since taking office, returning Thursday to mark the anniversary of an important World War II battle by making a speech on a decommissioned aircraft carrier docked on the Hudson River.

Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin is accused of passing classified information to Taiwan, and faces two counts of espionage, three counts of attempted espionage and five counts of communicating defense information, among other charges.

The Navy spent $150,000 for development and use of the app for a year in Hampton Roads and Rota, Spain. It is targeted toward junior sailors and intended to combat destructive behaviors while also providing resources, including counseling services, off-limits locations and suicide prevention.

A Libyan militant charged with leading the lethal 2012 attacks on a U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi will ask a federal judge to throw out his statements to American authorities during his overseas capture and interrogation for 13 days aboard a U.S. Navy vessel.

Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to speak at the U.S. Naval Academy's graduation and commissioning ceremony this month.

A Japanese warship will escort a Navy supply vessel for the first time as the allies work to counter North Korean missile threats, Japanese media reports say.

Mathew Healy, a physician assistant working on Okinawa, is believed to have perished in an avalanche while skiing out of bounds near the Happo-one ski resort.

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The Indiana — or SSN-789 — is the 16th boat in the Virginia class of nuclear-powered subs being built in a unique teaming arrangement between the Newport News yard and its northern partner, General Dynamics Electric Boat.

A sailor who spent more than a decade working with East Coast-based reserve SEAL teams will be posthumously named an honorary chief petty officer during a private ceremony Sunday at the SEAL Heritage Center on Joint Expeditionary Base.

Friday marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Lt. Clarence Crase Thomas, a Naval Academy graduate who was the first U.S. naval officer to die in World War I. Buried at the academy, there was no fanfare to mark the centennial of his death.

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Supersonic F/A-18 Super Hornets soar off the USS George H.W. Bush to bomb Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria at all hours of the day and night.

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The gym in the USS George H.W. Bush's hangar bay dark, cramped and crowded, with sailors clanging weights, punching heavy bags and bantering with each other.

Seven senior enlisted sailors aboard the USS Hué City face disciplinary actions for conducting or helping cover up an inappropriate relationship while serving on the guided-missile cruiser, the Navy has announced.

The Navy says Thursday's crash happened as the helicopter was conducting routine flight operations. Guided-missile destroyer USS Dewey rescued the pilots and air crewman, who were uninjured.

In February, Courtney Carrow, the legislative director for NY Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, came under fire for promoting a meme that seemingly compared Afghans to fictional “Star Wars” characters known as Ewoks. A Stefanik spokesman said there was “no connection” between Carrow’s resignation and the Ewok meme incident.

Navy Adm. Harry Harris called on Congress to repeal the spending caps known as sequestration and invest more in missile defense, radar systems and equipment and submarines to counter the North Korean threat.

A combination of initial statements from military officials, the White House and media reports led many to believe the ship was immediately headed toward the Korean peninsula.

Hospital Corpsman Christopher Marroquin, a dental technician on the Yokosuka-based USS Ronald Reagan was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal after using his medical skills to help save an elderly woman’s life on a flight to Japan.

A minimum of 1,000 layoffs are projected in the Hampton Roads region’s ship-repair yards in the weeks and months ahead, some of which have already begun to unfold.

The Navy announced Monday that it will move ahead with plans for an annual large-scale exercise in the Gulf of Alaska involving a carrier strike group.

A U.S. guided-missile submarine made a port call in South Korea and the allied nations conducted maritime exercises Tuesday, while North Korea reportedly conducted a large artillery drill as tensions mounted on the divided peninsula.

The Navy said Monday it will comprehensively review recent breathing problems experienced by aircrews of the F/A-18 strike fighter and the T-45 jets used to train them.

The USS Carl Vinson strike group will be near South Korea “in a matter of days,” Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday as concerns over a potential North Korean nuclear weapons test continue to mount in the Asia-Pacific region.

A member of SEAL Team 1 was arrested this week on federal charges he recorded himself molesting a sleeping child earlier this year.

More than 75 years after Michael Galajdik was killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, the sailor from Joliet, Ill., will reach his final resting place.