The Navy has temporarily halted training for about 300 Saudi military aviation students at three Florida bases after the deadly shooting Friday by a Royal Saudi Air Force officer at Naval Air Station Pensacola.

A man charged with killing a sailor in a crash at Fort Story last month was driving more than three times the posted speed limit, according to a document filed this week in court.

For decades, cows on the Christensen farm sauntered across the pasture to quench their thirst at a creek that carries storm-water runoff from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island. In October 2018, the Navy disclosed the water contained trace amounts of toxic chemicals from firefighting foam used on the base during aviation accidents and training.

The U.S. military’s top enlisted service member unveiled a new, distinctive rank insignia specifically for the senior enlisted adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, an insignia that he will wear for his last week on the job.

The Navy has a special relationship with Naval Air Station Pensacola that is built on centuries of history.

Ahmed Mohammed al-Shamrani was described as "strange" and "angry" in the weeks leading up to Friday's shooting rampage, but schoolmates and other acquaintances said he showed no outward sign that he was preparing to open fire inside a classroom building where he had been training to become a military aviator.

Generally, foreigners are not allowed to buy guns in the U.S. But there are exceptions written into federal law, which may explain how the Saudi flight student who shot three servicemen to death at the Pensacola naval base was able to purchase a weapon.

Sailors now have the option to wear a black neck gaiter during cold weather as well as a two-piece swim suit for the physical readiness test, among some of the uniform updates announced Monday by the Navy.

The Bahrain School, run by the Department of Defense Education Activity on the U.S. Navy base there, operates independently but decided to “honor the decree from the king,” the school's principal said.

Seaman Mohammed Haitham had been looking forward to graduating from flight school this month, his mother said.

Fresh out of boot camp, Cameron Walters proudly told his father in Georgia during their nightly video chat that he had passed the exam qualifying him to stand watch and to help secure building entrances at Naval Air Station Pensacola in Florida.

Authorities believe the gunman made social media posts criticizing the U.S. under a user handle similar to his name, but federal law enforcement officials are investigating whether he authored the words or just posted them.

Top U.S. defense and military officials on Saturday reaffirmed America’s continued commitment to and relationship with Saudi Arabia after a Saudi air force student’s deadly attack at a Navy base in Florida.

Caroline Kennedy smashed a bottle across the USS John Kennedy carrier’s hull Saturday at the shipyard in Newport News, Va. She is the sponsor of her father’s namesake ship.

Joshua Watson had just graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy and looked forward to a military career as a pilot. On Saturday, he was being hailed a hero, as his family recounted how the 23-year-old — in his last minutes of life — led first responders to an active shooter at Naval Air Station Pensacola.

Officials investigating the deadly attack were working Saturday to determine whether it was motivated by terrorism, while President Donald Trump indicated he would review policies governing foreign military training in the United States.

A shooting at a U.S. military base in Florida by a Saudi military student has prompted questions about how the U.S. government scrutinizes candidates for military exchange programs as the Pentagon highlighted the layers of screening already in place.

Gabriel Romero – the sailor who fatally shot two people at Pearl Harbor before killing himself – was unhappy with his commanders, facing nonjudicial punishment and had been undergoing counseling, a U.S. military official said Friday.

Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani, a member of the Saudi Arabian air force, opened fire Friday morning in a classroom building at the Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., killing three and injuring several others, according to local and law enforcement officials.

President Donald Trump intends to nominate retired two-star admiral James McPherson to be the next Army undersecretary, the White House said Thursday.

The USS America, the Navy’s newest and most advanced flat-deck amphibious assault ship, arrived Friday at its new homeport in southwestern Japan.

Nine people were hurt, including one critically, when a U.S. Coast Guard vessel collided with a U.S. Navy boat off Alaska's Kodiak Island.

As shipbuilders prepare for a challenging future, they will pause Saturday to observe the military pomp and age-old tradition that will accompany the christening of the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy.

A man has been charged after a pickup crashed into a Navy police patrol car and killed a sailor at Fort Story, Va., according to Virginia Beach police.

With more than 6,000 employees, Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, with its four dry docks for submarine and surface ship repair and maintenance work, is the largest industrial employer in Hawaii.

The Navy has announced trial dates for a U.S. Navy SEAL and a Marine charged in the hazing-related death of a Green Beret.

A sailor who shot three civilian shipyard workers Wednesday, killing two and then himself, has been identified as 22-year-old Gabriel Romero, according to The Associated Press.

It is unclear whether the sailor who fired the shots knew the victims or if they were randomly targeted. One surviving victim is at a hospital in stable condition, an official said.

Shipyard delays has been a known issue for years. A report published Wednesday by the Government Accountability Office found the Navy faces “persistent and substantial maintenance delays” that affects most of its maintenance efforts and hurts its efforts to rebuild its readiness.

More than 3,200 people from Newport News Shipbuilding worked on the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, which will be christened Saturday. But for some longtime shipbuilders, this isn’t the only Kennedy that comes to mind.

Congress took interest in the issues affecting on-base military housing following a Reuters news agency report published a year ago highlighting a slew of problems ranging from mold to lead paint exposure.

Christmas came early to Electric Boat on Monday as the U.S. Navy awarded the Groton-based shipbuilder a massive, $22.2 billion contract for nine new Virginia-class submarines.

The owner of a small island off the coast of Kyushu has agreed to sell the property to Japan, which plans to turn it into a site for U.S naval aviators to practice carrier landings, the chief cabinet minister’s office announced Monday.

The changes will affect more than half of all Navy job fields. Factors that impacted the changes to tour lengths included initial training, available duty billets and retention, the Navy said.

The office of U.S. Sen. Jack Reed of Rhode Island on Monday announced the contract for General Dynamics' Electric Boat in Connecticut and Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. in Virginia, the two companies that have been building the attack submarines in partnership.

General Dynamics Corp. is expected to receive a U.S. Navy contract this week for more than $20 billion to build the next installment of nuclear-powered Virginia-class submarines, one of the largest shipbuilding contracts in the service's history.

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer is now a member of the U.S. Naval Academy’s Board of Visitors.

The deployment is the first since the Nimitz-class carrier underwent months of repairs to its electrical system, forcing its strike group to deploy without it.

The Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act, signed last Wednesday, mandates sanctions on Chinese and Hong Kong officials who carry out human rights abuses and requires an annual review of the favorable trade status that Washington grants Hong Kong.

USS New Orleans is expected to be joined soon by the USS America, which left San Diego last month.

Former Navy and Air Force pilots or their surviving spouses have expressed concerns about the high number of cancers affecting their community, and some have wondered whether radars on military aircraft might have been a factor.

A civilian crashed into a base security vehicle at Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Va., on Saturday night, fatally injuring a sailor and leaving the suspect hospitalized, the Navy said.

Earl “Buddy” Yates and Dennis FitzPatrick grew up nearly 40 years apart, but they are cut from the same Navy cloth and are united by the aircraft carrier known as “Big John.”

Timothy Weeks was released last month in a prisoner swap along with Kevin King, ending an ordeal that began with their abduction in 2016 outside the American University in Kabul, where they worked.

The Navy's 20-year Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Plan is meant to rebuild and modernize government-run shipyards at four U.S. ports where nuclear-powered submarines and aircraft carriers are repaired and maintained: Norfolk, Virginia; Kittery, Maine; Puget Sound in Washington state; and Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

On Nov. 29, 1924, the nation's first aircraft carrier, the Langley, arrived at San Diego to join the Pacific Battle Fleet. The ship was originally built to carry coal for the World War I fighting fleets but had been converted into an experimental aircraft carrier.

Trained as an aviator, Holloway holds the distinction of serving as a four-star admiral at the same time his father held the same rank — the only father and son in the history of the Navy to do so.

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly said he decided that the Naval Special Warfare Community “neither deserves the continued distraction and negative attention that recent events have evoked.”

No matter what the odds are of getting their first choice, Capt. William Switzer and the Service Assignment Board want to guarantee every midshipman a successful Navy career. Midshipmen have from the end of their first year until August of their fourth year to put in their service preferences. They can list up to six preferences out of the 24 career choices in the Navy and Marine Corps.

Thousands of Marines and sailors who deployed to the Middle East and the Indo-Pacific seven months ago, returned to three West Coast Marine Corps bases just in time for Thanksgiving.

Raul Rodriguez had worked for U.S. Customs for 18 years and lived in the United States as long as he could remember. He had no idea he was actually born across the border in Matamoros, Mexico.

The Navy currently has only the anchor, Constitution and eagle, or “ACE” emblem, on its green Navy working uniform eight-point covers, also known as utility caps. The sailor’s rank insignia on the uniform is only on the chest.

The USS Indianapolis arrived at Naval Station Mayport on Tuesday, the seventh littoral combat ship to be based here. After leaving from the shipyard in Marinette, Wis., the Indianapolis officially joined the fleet on Oct. 26 when it was commissioned in Burns Harbor, Ind.

The Navy and Hawaiian Electric Co. marked a land-for-power-upgrades swap with the dedication Monday of the 80,760-panel, 20-megawatt West Loch Solar Project — the latest of an ever-increasing number of solar farms helping to march Hawaii toward its goal of 100% renewable energy by 2045.

The roughly 5,000 crew members of the USS Abraham Lincoln arrived at the U.S. naval base in Bahrain on Tuesday, after spending more than six months in the Arabian Sea on a deployment shaped by tensions with Iran.

President Donald Trump announced that he was nominating Kenneth Braithwaite to replace the ousted Richard Spencer.

President Donald Trump directed Defense Secretary Mark Esper to ensure that Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher would keep his Trident pin and retire as a Navy SEAL, the Pentagon’s leader said Monday.

Gen. Mark Milley voiced support for Defense Secretary Mark Esper's decision to allow Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallager, a SEAL who was acquitted of charges of murdering an Islamic State prisoner but convicted of posing with the man's corpse, to stay in the elite service.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper asked for the resignation of Navy Secretary Richard Spencer on Sunday after losing confidence in him over his handling of the case of a Navy SEAL accused of war crimes in Iraq, the Pentagon said.

Maryland state Sen. William C. Smith Jr. said his most rewarding experience was working in a command center on election day, watching Afghans go to the polls to vote despite the threat of being attacked.

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer denied a New York Times report Saturday that he had threatened to resign or to be fired if President Donald Trump intervenes to stop an administrative review of a SEAL at the center of a botched war crimes court-martial.

U.S. Navy Secretary Richard Spencer indicated he supports the hearing into whether Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher can keep his trident, a symbol of the SEALS, in light of Gallagher's conviction at a general court-martial in San Diego in July.

Field hospitals like the one erected for practice by the 3rd Medical Battalion are the first stop for critical care for wounded Marines and sailors. A team of about 70 service members on Okinawa set up the interconnecting tents in under four hours.

The demonstrations by the USS Wayne E. Meyer and the USS Gabrielle Giffords were meant to assert freedom of navigation, “consistent with international law,” according to a Navy statement.

Pumping iron in a shabby gym at the U.S. Naval Academy, Jenny Chatwell feels a sense of relief, as if the weight of the world has been jacked from her shoulders. Gone are the everyday pressures faced by midshipmen; in their stead is a calmness marked by clanks, grunts and groans. Lifting, she says, lightens the load.

President Donald Trump on Thursday pushed back on the military's plans to strip a service member accused of misconduct of his status as a Navy SEAL. "The Navy will NOT be taking away Warfighter and Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher's Trident Pin," the president said in a tweet. The Navy's top spokesman said that the service is aware of the president's tweet and awaiting further guidance about what to do.

Navy officials on Wednesday notified a SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State militant and three of his superior officers during a 2017 deployment to Iraq that all four will face a review to determine if they should remain on the elite force.

Navy Cmdr. Bryce Benson accepted responsibility for the deadly crash of the USS Fitzgerald and was told, “That’s done now.” But when another ship crashed, the Navy decided it wasn’t through with him. Its pursuit nearly destroyed him and his family.

A lawsuit filed against Tokyo-based NYK Line by survivors of the USS Fitzgerald collision and relatives of those killed lays out how sailors saw water rushing at them as they scrambled for the exits and, in some cases, had to swim for their lives.

Lt. Kayla Barron never imagined she might one day become an astronaut, let alone be one of the first people to visit Mars, until she served on a submarine.

Shetland is half golden retriever, half Labrador retriever. As of this fall, he is also a lieutenant commander in the Navy and a clinical instructor in the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

The Navy has instituted numerous changes for surface warfare officer ship-driving training in the wake of two deadly crashes in 2017.

The Navy is overhauling training school curriculums for new sailors by incorporating more simulator scenarios to practice job skills, as the service looks to boost lax training standards that contributed to two deadly ship collisions in 2017, Navy officials said.

Police are still conducting forensic tests to determine if remains found in rural Alabama are those of Petty Officer Brianna Williams' 5-year-old daughter.

The U.S. Navy has agreed to name a warship in honor of late Indiana Sen. Richard G. Lugar.

The Navy said it never received an order to halt warship maneuvers in the Black Sea earlier this year, despite testimony in a congressional impeachment hearing that President Donald Trump asked for the cancellation after he heard about it on television.

None of the Air Force, Marines and Navy variants of the Lockheed Martin fighter is meeting its five key “reliability or maintainability metrics,” according to a Pentagon spokesman.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office said that remains had been found in a wooded area of Alabama between the towns of Linden and Demopolis, where the girl’s mother has family.

The guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville made its way through the 110-mile-wide Taiwan Strait on Tuesday in a move that’s bound to draw protests from Beijing.

Now that the USS Harry S. Truman is repaired, “every effort is being made to make the carrier, air wing and sailors operationally ready to deploy,” the Navy said. The service did not say how soon the ship would deploy.

Having ceased cooperating with police in her daughter’s disappearance, Petty Officer Brianna Williams is now considered a person of interest in the disappearance of 5-year-old Taylor Rose Williams, police announced Monday.

The USS Grayback, one of World War II's most effective submarines, was found in the ocean off Okinawa, Japan, more than 1,400 feet below the surface.

Navy Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson is considering a run for Congress in Texas, two sources familiar with his plans said Friday. Jackson was the chief White House physician in 2018, when President Donald Trump nominated him to be Veterans Affairs secretary. But Jackson withdrew his nomination from consideration after what he called "completely false and fabricated" allegations against him surfaced.

The Navy’s three biggest bases in Europe are undergoing a multimillion dollar retrofit to boost energy efficiency and create alternative power sources in case the main grid is disabled by an adversary, natural disaster or storm.

Brianna Williams, who is stationed at the Tactical Operations Center at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, is not under arrest nor is she considered a suspect in the disappearance of her daughter, Taylor Rose Williams, at this time.

John Lehman was a radar operator on the USS Barb, which was credited with sinking 25 Japanese merchant vessels, four warships — including an aircraft carrier — and more than 50 other, smaller vessels during World War II.

The suit seeks to guarantee the fair treatment of veterans when they apply to have their discharge characterizations changed. There is a similar ongoing lawsuit against the Army.

The discovery last month of the long-lost Kaga and another Japanese carrier, the Akagi, came three weeks before the release of the new $100 million movie "Midway," which opens Friday.

Spencer Steckman, who worked at Yokosuka Naval Base in Japan at the time of his arrest, enticed at least 10 preteen and teenage boys into sending him recordings of their sexually explicit conduct, according to the Justice Department.

After some recent public fireworks, the Navy and Huntington Ingalls are sounding united when it comes to preparing the aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford for deployment. “Secretary Spencer agrees they are aligned and in a better place now,” said Cmdr. Sarah Higgins.

There’s a new moniker for sailors charged with jobs like managing a ship’s store, cutting hair or doing laundry aboard Navy vessels: retail services specialists.

A bomb threat came in at 3:58 p.m. targeting a barracks for single sailors near the installation's Personnel Support Detachment building. No explosives were found in the barracks or surrounding area, according to officials.

The Navy’s 5th and 6th fleets are conducting exercises in tandem to help East African and Indian Ocean nations combat seagoing crimes and other threats in the region.

A Navy submariner who was fatally shot through the locked front door at a frightened neighbor’s house in 2018 “did not kick the door, bang on it, yell, or otherwise show aggressive behavior,” according to a Navy “line of duty” investigation that found no misconduct.

The mother of a Navy recruit who died after a boot camp run at the Great Lakes base this year said she will seek a second autopsy after a blood disorder was determined to have played a role in her daughter’s death.