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.

Midshipman Sydney Barber had her doubts about applying for the top student leadership position at the U.S. Naval Academy. A Black woman had never held the post in the 44 years women have been able to attend the 175-year-old institution.

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.

Every year, USO Gulf Coast helps make the holidays brighter for the sailors at the Naval Battalion Construction Center and for the airman at Keesler Air Force Base who can't go home for the holiday.

The Navy hopes granting some enlisted sailors an early release from their enlistment commitment will ensure promotion opportunities for sailors who intend to remain in the Navy without forcing people from the service involuntarily.

The U.S. government, the governor said, provided a good inventory of protective gear in exchange for hosting the coronavirus-stricken USS Theodore Roosevelt for two months.

Since 2017, the 7th Fleet has steadily increased its freedom-of-navigation operations, which typically target Chinese maritime claims in the South and East China seas.

Eight people tested positive for the coronavirus since Friday at Yokosuka Naval Base, home of the 7th Fleet south of Tokyo.

Newport News is to deliver the completed modules to Electric Boat, which is responsible for final assembly of the boats, beginning in November 2022.

Citing operational security, the military declined to specify where the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit — which includes the amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island and the amphibious transport docks USS San Diego and USS Somerset — was now operating.

Lt. Fan Yang was the subject last week of a new indictment replacing one filed last year that charged him in an export conspiracy alongside his wife and two Chinese business people.

The Navy’s 267-page report of the investigation by Rear Adm. John Meier, commander of Naval Air Force Atlantic, looked into the circumstances leading up to the shooting and what could be done to prevent another attack in the future.

After nearly 80 years, the remains of a Navy sailor who died in the attack on Hawaii's Pearl Harbor have been returned and buried in his home state of Arkansas.

The Navy sent another warship through the Taiwan Strait over the weekend, which also included an unconfirmed visit to the island by the officer in charge of intelligence gathering in the Indo-Pacific region, according to wire and Navy reports.

What the sailors have been figuring out over the past weeks of intensive operations — averaging some 50 sorties a day — could well be the way the Navy’s new Ford class carriers operate for the next 60 to 80 years.

Two Navy officials spoke with the seven-member commission Thursday, answering questions about the Navy's proposal to train on public lands and acknowledging the need to address the public's concerns.

Midshipman 1st Class Chase Standage is in the process of being separated from the academy due to a series of tweets this summer including calling for the use of military force against civilian protestors and saying Breonna Taylor, who was killed by police, received justice.

The Navy football team will get a chance to make up two of its games that were postponed because of the coronavirus.

The USS Michael Murphy has been in port at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, since before the outbreak and is now being cleaned, NBC News reports.

Old 439 rolled slowly down the runway in the afternoon sun, trailing noise and jet fumes, and still looking sharp in blue and gold after 33 years in the Navy.

The Navy will be buying an additional 36 helicopters for the Advanced Helicopter Training System program at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, according to a Nov. 12 contract announcement from the U.S. Department of Defense.

The contract will allow Bath Iron Works to continue providing planning yard services, including engineering, design, material kitting, logistics, planning and execution, for the Navy's fleet of DDG 51 destroyers.

The 7th Fleet, based at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, is the only U.S. fleet in the Indo-Pacific region. It includes the Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group, which is supported at times by ships from the San Diego-based 3rd Fleet.

The Navy is responding to feedback from sailors who asked for a test that better determined core strength and relates more to the work that they have to do on ships.

The lawsuit states the Navy was not following its own regulations between April 30, 2002, and June 27, 2019, for assigning disability ratings for conditions that prevented a sailor or Marine from continuing to serve in the military.

The destroyer USS John Finn shot down an ICBM on Monday.

The Naval Academy is now one of 22 educational institutions to be granted a Center of Academic Excellence in Cyber Operations by the National Security Agency.

Because the House and Senate have different views on funding Virginia class submarines next year, the issue now goes to a conference committee to try to work out the differences.

A grant made by the Navy SEAL Foundation is expected to assist with large-scale trials of the psychoactive drug MDMA, also known as molly, coupled with psychotherapy.

For Pearl Harbor shipyard's first new dry dock since World War II, the Navy is reaching back in time and eyeing a pair of basins used during the war for ship work as the site for a huge new submarine repair facility.

Homecoming isn’t the same during the coronavirus pandemic. There were no loved ones on the pier, no bands and no fanfare to welcome the USS Ronald Reagan crew home after a five-month patrol.

For 15 years, James Tait Praefke has evaded capture after escaping a naval prison in the Pacific Northwest about a month after being sentenced on charges that the sailor stole explosives from the military.

Family members who do not want to return to their permanent duty station because of health or security concerns may request an early return of dependents, the Navy said.

Vice Adm. Andrew Lewis, who serves as both commander of the U.S. Second Fleet and NATO’s newest command, Joint Force Command Norfolk, is leading a team from 16 nations who are helping shape what he calls NATO version 3.0.

The study plans to monitor sailors living together in tight quarters aboard a ship. Each will be given a Garmin smartwatch loaded with an app designed by RTI that tracks their vitals, like heart rates, respiratory rates and oxygen saturation.

For the second consecutive week, Navy has had its football game postponed due to an outbreak of COVID-19 within the team and on campus.

The fate of construction of a second Virginia-class submarine next year was thrown into doubt Tuesday as a U.S. Senate subcommittee only partially funded the nuclear sub, sending the program into negotiations with the U.S. House of Representatives.

Lost days because of slower-than-expected repair fell from more than 7,000 in fiscal year 2019 about 1,100 for 2020, Naval Sea Systems Command spokeswoman Colleen O’Rourke said.

Most of the Antietam crew remained aboard throughout the entire 260-day deployment, during which the pandemic changed the outside world.

Currently, the Navy is authorized to "take" — meaning harass, hunt, capture or kill — up to two Southern Resident orcas per year. The new rule will allow it to take up to 51 orcas per year until 2027.

As brigade commander, Midshipman 1st Class Sydney Barber will assume the highest leadership position within the student body, overseeing the day-to-day activities and professional training of her fellow midshipmen.

Rear Adm. John Spencer, commander of Submarine Group Ten and keynote speaker, called the ceremony at Kings Bay the nation's best to honor submarine veterans.

The 560-foot-long Columbia-class submarines are slated to be the largest constructed in the United States and will replace the older Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines.

During Fleet Week, a U.S. Navy ship is normally docked pier-side in San Diego and available for tours. This time, due to COVID-19 protocols, the ship tours will be held online, said Brian O'Rourke, a Navy Region Southwest spokesman.

St. John's College was awarded more than $1 million to house Naval Academy midshipmen as Bancroft Hall's capacity was limited by coronavirus quarantine and isolation, according to documents The Capital obtained through a Public Information Act request.

Sailors considering their future in the Navy might be entitled to a reenlistment bonus of at least $30,000 after the service recently added more critical skillsets to their bonus eligibility list.

Uncertainty over the result of this week's presidential election has given way to legal action, demonstrations and even violence. In this tense time, the Military Matters podcast looks back at interviews from of last season's episodes on the use of the military to handle episodes of civil unrest.

According to multiple sources, the Midshipmen have minimal positive COVID-19 cases, but the subsequent contact tracing would have caused a significant number of players to miss the game.

The Navy is closing its base schools and day care centers in Naples and Sigonella because of rapid increases in coronavirus transmission rates, Europe’s top U.S. admiral said soon after Italy decreed a national curfew and other restrictions to contain the pandemic.

The China Coast Guard would be allowed to use weapons against foreign ships in its waters under a proposed revision to its maritime police law, according to a translated version of the document.

The Army & Air Force Exchange Service will host Medal of Honor recipients from World War II, Vietnam and Afghanistan on its “Chief Chat” social media broadcasts this month to recognize valor for Veterans Day.

Manila Vibe Resto Bar and Music Lounge and Sasha Latin Resto Bar, both in the city of Yokosuka’s Honcho bar district, are officially off-limits to U.S. sailors.

The slip-on rank insignia now allowed for camouflage working uniforms is the same one that sailors wear on the cold weather parka and can be easily swapped between uniforms.

The change, announced Monday, marks a return to more traditional way of delivering a new ship to the fleet, and will ensure the carrier can handle the F-35C Joint Strike Fighter.

Yokosuka Naval Base, the U.S. 7th Fleet’s home south of Tokyo, reported two new coronavirus cases. Kadena Air Base on Okinawa reported one new case.

The exercise begins as tensions mount between China and the four nations over Beijing’s territorial claims and militarization of islands and reefs in the South China Sea.

As Santa Fe celebrates U.S. Navy Week — a little-known initiative designed to broaden knowledge of the service's role in cities that aren't automatically connected with a strong seagoing presence — a naval historian took on a noted Santa Fe chef in a cook-off, based on a recipe found in a 1945 U.S. Navy cookbook.

The Pentagon wants to open a new school in the coming years specifically to teach troops to spot and kill small enemy drones, as the military seeks a uniform approach to defeating the small, unmanned aircraft, which officials have labeled a growing battlefield threat.

The USS Hershel “Woody” Williams is the first U.S. Navy warship based in Greece in at least 40 years.

Staff Sgt. Nicholas Brunetto never expected to receive an award for his actions in combat with a Special Forces team ambushed in Afghanistan earlier this year.

The Naval Academy still cannot expel a midshipman after a federal judge did not make a decision Friday on a preliminary injunction filed by the cadet's attorney, continuing a standing stay order barring his removal.

U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six led the overnight mission in northern Nigeria, where fighters loyal to al-Qaida and the Islamic State have established hideouts.

Brooks Alonzo Parks, a former logistics lead petty officer in the Navy's 7th Fleet, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for his role in the so-called 'Fat Leonard' bribery scandal.

The Navy has begun to scale its mountainous backlog of ship maintenance work, but reaching the summit is a multi-billion-dollar effort that will take years, a recent federal audit says.

Each year, Cmdr. Michael Flynn, a professor in the U.S. Naval Academy's English department, has his classes perform "The Raven" around the spooky holiday.

Midshipman 1st Class Chase Standage faces expulsion because of a series of tweets over the summer, which the academy found violated its social media policy, represented conduct unbecoming a midshipman and, in some cases, were racist.

The littoral combat ship USS Detroit is making its way to its Florida homeport after a key piece of its propulsion system malfunctioned, according to a news report.

As of Wednesday, 12,074 sailors have tested positive for the virus, according to the Navy’s tally.

U.S. Coast Guard Ensign Morgan Garrett, 24, an aviation student, and Navy Lt. Rhiannon Ross, 30, a flight instructor, died when their aircraft crashed into a residential area in Alabama.

In Louisiana, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans was shut down Thursday as the city remained without power. Keesler Air Force Base, located on the Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Miss., was also closed Thursday.

Attorneys for the Navy secretary and the Naval Academy superintendent have asked a federal judge to dismiss a midshipman's lawsuit against them, saying the court doesn't have jurisdiction to rule on a recommendation that the mid is unfit for service because of racist tweets he sent last summer.

A Navy spokeswoman described the flaws as "micro-cracks" in the composite structure of the blades that don't pose a safety hazard or "an immediate impediment" to operations.

The USS John S. McCain barracks opened Tuesday and will house junior sailors learning at technical schools at the base near Chicago.

The Navy said the 20 tanks within Red Hill represent "critical infrastructure for the nation's defense " and are steel-lined concrete up to four feet thick and store millions of gallons of jet or marine fuel used by the U.S. military.

Two recent arrivals to Yokosuka Naval Base tested positive while still in isolation.

A naval air museum in Hawaii whose vintage aircraft could be auctioned off or chopped up is scrambling to remove some of its collection ahead of the Saturday deadline to vacate the premises.

Duane Kyser said the appropriate thing to do with the remains of his uncle, who was killed aboard the USS Oklahoma, is to return them to Muskogee, Okla., for burial.

Students at most overseas Department of Defense Education Activity schools will receive free meals for the rest of the school year, the Army and Air Force Exchange Service said Monday.

U.S. Navy Lt. Rhiannon Ross, 30, from Wixom, Mich., and U.S. Coast Guard Ensign Morgan Garrett, 24, from Weddington, N.C., were aboard the U.S. Navy T-6B Texan II trainer aircraft that crashed Oct. 23 in a residential area of Foley, Ala.

An investigation is continuing into the Friday evening crash of a U.S. Navy T-6B Texan II turboprop training aircraft that killed both crew members on board.

The annual Army-Navy football game has been moved out of Philadelphia over pandemic concerns, and will be played at West Point's Michie Stadium, site of the first meeting between the academy rivals in 1890.

Two recent arrivals to Yokosuka Naval Base from outside Japan tested positive while in isolation.

A 560-foot Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine has been operating off Hawaii for several days practicing "expeditionary " resupply from a drone, Marine Corps MV-22 Osprey and Navy Sea Hawk helicopter.

The Bluetails, from commander to newest sailor, start their days the traditional way: a “FOD walkout," picking up any foreign objects or debris in the flight line.

Adm. Carlisle Trost, who served as Chief of Naval Operations from 1986 to 1990, died Sept. 29 at the age of 90 of complications from a fall.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt's executive officer said Capt. Brett Crozier's nameplate, which has been replaced, was missing because someone 'took it as a souvenir.'