Soon after, the infant James' heart was removed, its first step en route to a three-week-old baby somewhere in Texas who needed it. The donation opportunity came just before Navy Petty Officer James Butler Jr. and wife Samantha's own deadline; they earlier had set Wednesday as the day they would take James III off life support.

Lt. Kaylie Ludwig, a medical corps officer, was found unresponsive on Monday and pronounced dead aboard the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington, U.S. Sixth Fleet spokesman Kyle Raines said in a statement.

Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has told friends and supporters in recent weeks that he plans to deploy with the Navy to the Middle East. Late Wednesday the Navy confirmed that he had been approved to return to active status as a general unrestricted line officer.

The Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, USS Paul Ignatius, will be put into active duty July 27, said Glenn Wiltshire, Port Everglades acting-Chief Executive and Port Director.

Guided-missile destroyer USS Preble and the oil tanker USNS Walter S. Diehl sailed the strait north to south.

The Navy and NOAA are studying the sea turtles as part of a proposed $150 million naval project to relocate the base’s ammunition wharf. The reconfiguration would provide greater installation security and improve safety for private boaters and nearby communities. The 5,000-acre base is responsible for weapons storage, loading and maintenance for ships of the United States Pacific Fleet.

A sailor was found dead Tuesday aboard the USS Arlington, said Cmdr. Kyle Raines, a spokesman for Sixth Fleet.

In the buttoned-up Annapolis institution, tenured professor Bruce Fleming has long reveled in his role of iconoclast. Fleming is the one who will show up to class dressed like Capt. von Trapp from “The Sound of Music,” who starts the semester with a demonstration of one-armed pushups, who gives a famous lecture on the merits of sunscreen, dental floss and the application of a condom.

Some 2,600 Navy sailors, Marines and members of the Coast Guard cruised into New York City on more than a dozen vessels Wednesday for the 31st annual Fleet Week — one of the largest in the nation.

Sikorsky will build 12 CH-53K King Stallion helicopters as part of a $1.1 billion U.S. Navy contract and among 200 aircraft for the Marine Corps. The Stratford-based unit of defense contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. will begin deliveries in 2022 and also provide spare parts and logistical support.

Sailors’ families gathered on the pier Wednesday morning as the USS Ronald Reagan left its homeport to patrol the Indo-Pacific region, its first deployment of 2019.

Military investigators and a prosecutor misled a judge and didn't get search warrants or the necessary approval from higher-ups to investigate civilians, a defense lawyer for Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher said.

Attorney Tim Parlatore says Navy investigators and the prosecutor didn't get warrants or proper approval to investigate civilians in efforts to find the source of news leaks.

A Hays County, Texas, grand jury indicted the men on April 24, each on four counts of aggravated sexual assault and with a bond of $500,000, according to indictment records, over a suspected incident on May 19, 2018.

Ellen Lord, the under secretary of defense for acquisition, said in a statement that she "has more confidence" in the program designated CH-53K and that she supported a $1.3 billion contract for 12 more production-model helicopters that was awarded on Friday.

Rear Adm. Fred Kacher assumed command of Task Force 76 from Rear Adm. Brad Cooper during a ceremony Friday aboard the USS Wasp at Sasebo Naval Base, Japan.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Preble sailed within 12 nautical miles of a South China Sea islet claimed by China, the Philippines and Taiwan.

The USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group has entered the Arabian Sea and conducted joint drills with U.S. amphibious forces, Navy officials said, as tensions continue to mount following intelligence reports that Iran or its proxy forces planned to harm American troops in the region.

After 20 years and spending more than $25 billion, the Navy will have three new ships without a usable weapon system or a defined role in the U.S. fleet, the Government Accountability Office said.

A new probe reveals that Navy submarine sailors compiled a list of female crew members that ranked them according to their attractiveness level. The "rape list" comprised female sailors aboard the USS Florida – only the second American sub to integrate women.

The warning relayed by U.S. diplomatic posts from the Federal Aviation Administration, though dismissed by Iran, underscored the risks the current tensions pose to a region critical to both global air travel and trade.

Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Adam Matthews will spend the next year in a military prison after pleading guilty Thursday for his actions in the 2017 strangulation death of a Green Beret in Mali.

A former commander of the Pearl Harbor destroyer USS Chafee received a scathing censure from the secretary of the Navy accusing him of accepting tens of thousands of dollars in improper gifts from corrupt Malaysian defense contractor Leonard Glenn Francis and demonstrating a “higher loyalty” to Francis than to the United States.

The exercise in the Indian Ocean involved sailing in formation, live-fire drills and more.

The attorney for Navy SEAL Adam Matthews said Matthews will plead guilty Thursday to hazing, assault and other charges in the death of Army Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar, but a murder charge will be dropped.

Bascom Hunter, an electronics manufacturer based out of the Louisiana Technology Park on Florida Boulevard, has been awarded a $4 million contract with the Navy to reduce disruptions in wireless communications networks.

As the Naval Academy readies to graduate over 1,000 midshipmen next week, Commissioning Week offers plenty of public events before the hat toss.

The Career Intermission Program is one of a series of changes the Navy has recently made to be more accommodating to working parents in an effort to retain talented sailors. Surveys show the top reasons people leave the service are the Navy’s impact on the family, on their ability to have or adopt children and work-life balance.

The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis is scheduled to arrive Thursday in its new home port in Norfolk after completing a deployment that took it through Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean Sea, the Navy said.

Military prosecutors in the case of a Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 installed tracking software in emails sent to defense lawyers and a reporter in an attempt to discover who was leaking information to the news media, according to lawyers who told The Associated Press that they received the corrupted messages.

The ditched "Lame Duck" was repaired in Chatham, Mass., and went on to make the first trans-Atlantic flight eight years before Charles Lindbergh's famous crossing. It was the first flight across any of the world's oceans.

The Navy ordered sailors to watch fitness test participants more closely for signs of distress and allow do-overs for those having a “bad day,” following a string of deaths over the past year including two young female recruits who collapsed during the tests.

Seventy-five years after the USS Missouri was commissioned, the battleship where World War II came to an end is getting its own stamp, the U.S. Postal Service announced Friday.

Amidst the mid-morning chill at the Muskogee War Memorial Park, the mood was solemn as the bell punctuated the name of 65 submarines, the human toll, and how each craft and its crew were lost.

For the passengers, Miami Air flight 293 had been trouble from the start. A mix of military and civilians were on the flight, which was delayed by more than four hours, was stiflingly hot and dodged storms.

The battle scene was more than just a shock for Navy Chaplain Robert Hess. The pain and suffering, death, blood and horror overwhelmed him. Luckily there were others around with more experience.

Petty Officer 3rd Class Chase Edwards, a 21-year-old gunner’s mate from Euless, Texas, was found dead late Thursday in a public park outside Sasebo Naval Base, Japan.

Acting Defense Secretary Pat Shanahan ordered the new deployments Friday, just days after he approved the expedited deployment of an aircraft carrier strike group and a task force of B-52 bombers into the Middle East, the Pentagon said.

The protesters gathered outside the Maine shipyard on the morning of April 27 during a christening ceremony for the Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer USS Lyndon B. Johnson.

Sailors who are victims of sexual harassment, stalking or humiliations such as having lewd images posted publicly can request a special transfer away from those accused of the crimes, according to a recent change in Navy policy.

The body of the sailor, identified only as a male, was found by local police and Navy security personnel just before midnight Thursday in a park in Sasebo’s Hirase area.

Lt. Cmdr. Robert J. Cleary was charged in November with more than a handful of crimes primarily stemming from an investigation of his alleged use of a Navy computer to search for illicit images of children.

The U.S. Navy joined the three nations “to train together and promote maritime cooperation throughout a free and open Indo-Pacific,” by sailing through the South China Sea.

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force F-35A stealth fighter went down with its pilot, Maj. Akinori Hosomi, who remains unaccounted for, in the Pacific Ocean approximately 85 miles east of Misawa Air Base on April 9.

A week after Rick Scott called for the U.S. military to intervene in Venezuela amid Juan Guaidó’s attempt to oust Nicolas Maduro from power, the U.S. Senate’s biggest hawk on Venezuela is calling for more.

The command master chief of the USS Harry S. Truman, who late last month cajoled sailors to “clap like we’re at a strip club” for Vice President Mike Pence’s arrival aboard the aircraft carrier, is retiring, a Navy official said Tuesday.

The Pentagon will dispatch a Navy hospital ship carrying hundreds of doctors and nurses to South America next month where it will be tasked with treating Venezuelans fleeing that nation’s economic and growing political crises.

The charter plane was carrying a mix of military and civilian passengers from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, when it overran a runway and plowed into the river. All 136 passengers and seven crew members were rescued.

The U.S. military said Tuesday that it has canceled a planned port visit in Croatia for a the USS Abraham Lincoln because its deployment to the Middle East has been be expedited in response to "recent and clear indications" that Iran was preparing to attack U.S. troops in the region.

“We have lost-in-translation moments more than you would realize,” Australian Air Force Group Capt. Stewart Dowrie told the country’s 10 Daily last week. “The time to figure that out is not on the battlefield when the bullets are flying.”

Investigators believe Donavon Moora, 22, an E-2 hospitalman apprentice from New York, killed Shianne Soles, 19, of Veradale, Wash., and Meaghan Burns, 23, of Massachusetts, in Portsmouth, Va., on Saturday before fatally shooting himself.

Before his political career, Sam Nunn served in the Coast Guard from 1959 to 1960 and stayed in the Coast Guard Reserve through 1968

The USS Preble and the USS Chung Hoon sailed within 12 nautical miles of the Gaven and Johnson reefs in the Spratly Islands “to challenge excessive maritime claims and preserve access to the waterways as governed by international law.”

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The deployment of the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group and a bomber task force to the Middle East was meant to “send a clear and unmistakable message to the Iranian regime,” but some analysts said the U.S. could be trying to frame long-planned movements as increased pressure on Tehran.

A Navy seaman helped prevent a potential shooting at a church on Easter Sunday. For his service that day, Miller was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal.

All the people aboard the plane survived a Friday crash at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, but three pets in the cargo area drowned.

Capt. Jonathan Pitcher was captain of the sloop Providence and wounded in action at Cape Brenton Island in the Revolutionary War.

The Pentagon planned Friday to send a U.S. Navy hospital ship to help alleviate a humanitarian crisis in Venezuela as senior national security officials convened at the Pentagon to discuss military options for pressuring the country’s president to step down.

The World War II-era replica marked the opening of the renamed airfield and the completion of a public/private partnership between the Marines Corps, the U.S. Navy and the Catalina Island Conservancy.

A new contract with the Navy means guaranteed work for the Northrop Grumman facility here in St. Augustine.

Richard Sepolio, a Navy petty officer, killed four people when he lost control of his truck and drove off the San Diego-Coronado Bridge in 2016. Sepolio was intoxicated at the time of the crash.

It was a milestone night for 45 young men and women Wednesday at Nationals Park, as they took part in a Navy enlistment ceremony before a game between the Washington Nationals and St. Louis Cardinals.

Vice President Mike Pence said the Trump administration is dropping its pitch to mothball the USS Harry S. Truman at its midlife point.

Rear Adm. Sean S. Buck has been nominated to be the next superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md.

A Navy spokeswoman said the comments made by the ship's senior enlisted sailor were "inappropriate" and would be "addressed by Truman's leadership."

The Navy has a child care waitlist of about 7,800 families, with about 68% in heavily populated installations in areas such as San Diego, Hawaii, the District of Columbia metropolitan area, and Norfolk, Virginia.

Adm. Bill Moran, President Donald Trump’s selection for the next chief of naval operations, said he supported the plan unveiled in the service’s fiscal year 2020 budget request to forgo a $3.5 billion midlife overhaul of the USS Truman scheduled for 2024.

Tamae Hindman was apparently stabbed to death April 13 in her Chatan apartment by Petty Officer 3rd Class Gabriel Olivero, according to Okinawa Prefectural Police. She leaves behind two children.

Australian Rear Adm. Stuart Mayer has been named the new deputy commander of the U.S.-led United Nations Command in South Korea, according to a press release on Tuesday.

The new prisoner uniform comes in two colors: dark brown for prisoners awaiting trial and tan uniforms for post-trial prisoners. The service is aiming to enhance security and save money with the change.

The top military officer in charge of the detention facilities at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay in Cuba was relieved of command this weekend by the commander of U.S. Southern Command, who cited a “loss of confidence in his ability,” officials said Monday.

Two U.S. warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday and Monday, the Navy said. The move is likely to spark protest from Beijing.

The main draw for this year’s open-base Spring Festival — held this past weekend at the installation about 25 miles southwest of Tokyo — was a series of static aircraft displays that included the P-8A Poseidon.

A crowd gathered near New Bedford, Mass., to commemorate the 75th anniversary of a World War II training operation off the coast of England that ended in tragedy when tank landing ships full of American soldiers were discovered and ambushed by German E-boats.

The amphibious assault ship USS Wasp, homeported at Sasebo Naval Base, and the guided-missile destroyer USS Stethem, at Yokosuka Naval Base, will return to the United States after spending several years in Japan, according to the Navy statement.

An 18-year-old Navy recruit died Tuesday after collapsing during physical training at the service’s boot camp at Naval Station Great Lakes in Illinois, service officials said Friday.

The USS Lyndon B. Johnson and the USNS Guam will be christened in two separate ceremonies — in Maine and in Okinawa, respectively — Saturday.

Naval Support Activity Annapolis Police Chief Lance Royce has been fired following an investigation into sexual harassment allegations, even as Navy officials declined to discuss the reason behind his dismissal.

Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan will follow in the footsteps of President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence to give the next commencement speech for the Naval Academy.

Members of more than a dozen peace groups are planning to protest the christening of the Lyndon B. Johnson, Navy’s third and final Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer, at Bath Iron Works on Saturday.

When Victor Vescovo, a 53-year-old Dallas businessman who spent 20 years as a Navy Reserve Officer working in intelligence, finishes exploring the deepest points of each of Earth's five oceans, he will be the first to climb the highest peaks of all seven continents, ski to the North and South poles, and reach the deepest ocean depths.

Second Lady Karen Pence delivered care packages, took photos and chatted with the spouses of deployed servicemembers Wednesday in the hangar used by the “Nightdippers” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 5.

The subject of unidentified flying objects, or UFOs, captured the public’s attention last year after several declassified Defense Department videos showed Navy pilots encountering oval objects that moved at great speed.

The destroyer USS Preble and frigate HMAS Melbourne conducted 10 separate drills Friday, the second training operation for both ships in several days, according to a Navy statement.

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More than 200 troops and civilians gathered on the U.S. Navy base here Wednesday to honor the memory of three USS Firebolt crew members killed in a suicide attack 15 years ago.

Chief Special Warfare Operator Edward R. Gallagher is already awaiting a military trial in San Diego on a separate charge of premeditated murder for allegedly killing a wounded ISIS fighter in 2017.

The USS Abraham Lincoln and USS John C. Stennis strike groups arrived this week to drill with regional partners at a time when Russia has increased its naval activity in the region and has engaged in conflict with NATO partner Ukraine at sea.

Remembering the 15 men who died battling a 60-day deadline to return the USS Saturn to its service as a World War II supply ship.

As the 2019 Blue Angels delight fans at airshows nationwide this year, two former Blue Angels have been busy laying the groundwork for one of the biggest changes in the team’s nearly 75-year history.

The Navy is investigating after a female Marine found a camera hidden in a women’s bathroom aboard the USS Arlington during a security operation in the Mediterranean Sea, Navy officials said Saturday.

The U.S. naval fleet of the future may one day include submarines without a sailor from bow to stern that prowl the depths of the ocean, navigating mine-infested waters to gather intelligence or even clandestinely drop explosives.

The drill, which began April 15, was the first U.S. anti-submarine warfare exercise with India since the countries agreed in September to closer cooperation between their militaries.

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Adm. John Richardson made investigating the accidents involving the USS Fitzgerald and the USS McCain a primary focus of his command of the Navy — but his pursuit of accountability for individual sailors has been deeply troubled.

The outgoing commanding officer of the Naval Submarine Base said that with investment from the state, support from the community and the submarine's role in national security, the base is set up to have a "solid and enduring" footprint on the Thames River.

A Navy helicopter rescued two spearfishermen stranded on a cliff on Guam’s east side recently after their boat sank.