New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Csaid in a statement he was “appalled and disgusted” by the vandalism, promising the state would fully fund the replacement. The new stone is expected to be nearly impossible to shatter.

How did a school of decorative carp come to live in the waterlogged cellar of a blighted former shipbuilding storehouse in the Philadelphia Navy Yard?

City and Hamilton County officials broke ground Thursday on the memorial designed to honor the five service members killed in the July 16, 2015, Chattanooga terrorist attack on two local military sites.

When beards were banned in 1984, the Navy explained it wanted professional-looking sailors who could wear firefighting masks and breathing apparatuses without interference. Still, some hope the change in female grooming standards opens the door for facial hair's return to the service.

Naval Special Warfare Basic Training Command graduated its 100th class of Special Warfare Combatant-Craft Crewmen, or specially-trained small boat operators, at a ceremony at Naval Amphibious Base Coronado Thursday.

53 years after it was launched from the Ingalls Shipbuilding yard in Pascagoula, Mississippi, the 598-foot amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LPH 10) is now in for dismantling.

When the Navy accepted delivery of the newly-built $4.6 billion Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer Michael Monsoor (DDG 1001) in April, it marked the occasion with a signing ceremony and a news release.

On Wednesday, Rear Adm. Karl Thomas took command of Task Force 70, which includes the Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and a stable of guided-missile destroyers and cruisers.

The USS Laboon is returning to Naval Station Norfolk a few months after firing missiles into Syria that were intended to stop President Bashir Assad from using chemical weapons against his own people.

India is practicing mine-countermeasure techniques with the United States and Japan off Aomori prefecture.

The Navy said Sunday’s incident marked the 21st time the Guam-based Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 has responded to an emergency call from the Coast Guard.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. was transported via Ingalls' rail car system to a floating dry dock and then lowered through the use of ballast to float the ship.

Thousands of sailors assigned to the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group will return to Naval Station Norfolk this week just three months after deploying – part of a defense strategy intended to infuse more unpredictability into how the military operates.

A sailor who went missing two weeks ago returned voluntarily Sunday to the Hawaii Marine Corps base where he was assigned.

The agency that's redeveloping the former Brunswick Naval Air Station says about 500 jobs have been added over the past year, bringing the total to about 1,700.

USS Gerald R. Ford arrived Sunday at Newport News Shipbuilding to address any kinks involving the gear that’s used to catch fighter jets as they land and to remedy a propulsion problem.

An unlikely speaker took the podium last month at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory in Maryland to honor the life of one of the 17 sailors killed last year in two separate Navy destroyer collisions. Cmdr. Bryce Benson, the most senior officer to face criminal charges for the collision.

The Navy rule change allowing female sailors to wear ponytails and locks will not extend to the United States Naval Academy. The rule change – announced Tuesday to expand acceptable female hairstyles when in uniform – does not include midshipmen at this time.

Dr. Tyrone Krause, a heart surgeon from New Jersey joined the Navy after receiving a waiver that permitted him to enter the Reserves a year past the typical age limit because people with his skills are in demand.

The Navy Cross will be presented to Cpl. Stephen Austin’s daughter, Neily Esposito, on July 21 by the Marine Corps at a 50th anniversary reunion banquet for the 1/27 Marines in Alexandria, Virginia.

In the Navy’s ongoing quest to build a more stealthy submarine, service-funded research is close to yielding a new method for boat builders to test how much vibrational noise a sub will emit before it ever touches water.

One of two engines on the USS Michael Monsoor, the second Zumwalt-class destroyer built by Bath Iron Works, must be replaced after turbine blades were damaged during acceptance trials.

As part of RIMPAC, more than 300 volunteers will portray patients from an earthquake and tsunami who will be triaged in mobile hospital units on Ford Island and transported by helicopter, ambulance and ambulance bus to hospitals on six islands.

The USS John S. McCain, originally christened in 1992 in honor of Sen. John McCain's Navy admiral father and grandfather, was rededicated Thursday to also honor the former Republican presidential candidate and Vietnam veteran.

Pilot Mike Hudgins is a retired U.S. Navy pilot who also flew for Hawaiian Airlines and Japan Airlines before joining Taquan five or six years ago. He was flying a Taquan Air de Havilland Otter from Steamboat Bay to Ketchikan when the plane crashed.

An electrical engineer convicted of stealing secrets from a Connecticut defense contractor has requested a new trial, alleging the federal government did not give his attorneys key evidence that led to his conviction of pilfering trade secrets, some of them sensitive to national security.

More than 50 sailors and Marines joined a volunteer effort organized by Iwakuni’s Single Marine Program Thursday, heading for flood-hit neighborhoods. Torrential waters and landslides have killed at least 200 in recent days.

The crew of a Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft found a lost fishing boat in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday after responding to a request from the Sri Lankan navy.

The Navy has taken heavier-handed steps to fill high-priority positions at sea. In June, the service announced it would begin requiring enlisted sailors to transfer from shore duty to sea billets where the need is critical.

Women in the Navy will soon have more hairstyle options while in uniform, according to an announcement about upcoming changes to female grooming standards.

The Roanoke Times reports 23-year-old U.S. Navy Ensign Sarah Mitchell will be the first woman listed on the Pylon, a memorial honoring Virginia Tech students and alumni killed in the line-of-duty in the military.

Cmdr. Jarrod Donaldson and Master Chief Petty Officer Jon Franklin were fired from their positions as a unit commander and a senior enlisted adviser. Both men had been reassigned to other duties within Naval Special Warfare Group Two.

Details of the USS Fitzgerald collision revealed Cmdr. Bryce Benson was in his quarters the night of the collision leaving a more junior officer to serve as officer of the deck. Seven sailors died aboard the Fitzgerald on June 17, 2017.

Varsity head coaches have been directed to earmark a percentage of summer camp proceeds to the Naval Academy Athletic Association and each sport’s budget was sliced by 15 percent.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in defense contracts were awarded in June.

A study shows that 104 wind turbines on 22,000 acres of North Carolina farmland do not interfere with a crucial radar system located in Chesapeake, but no more turbines can be built.

More than five decades ago, a group of explorers in Arkansas were trapped in a cave that flooded during a rainstorm. U.S. Navy and National Speleological Society divers came to the rescue.

Navy officials say 23-year-old Ensign Sarah Mitchell was injured during small boat training in the Red Sea Sunday and taken to a hospital, where she died.

Kristian Saucier, 31, who spent a year in federal prison for taking photos in classified areas of a nuclear attack submarine, filed an action Monday in U.S. District Court in Albany, N.Y., seeking a jury trial or $20 million in damages.

A Navy sailor was killed in a non-combat incident while conducting small-boat operations in the Red Sea, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.

Xylem Inc. sent four engineers to the cave site, and they assisted rescuers by boosting pumping power 40 percent. Thai Navy SEALs and international cave diving experts extracted eight boys over Sunday and Monday.

The U.S. and Philippine navies are training in the South China Sea and on shore in the Philippines this week, according to the Navy.

The sounds of summer fun on Jacksonville, N.C.-area beaches are blending with the sounds of freedom from nearby training exercises. Beach-goers may have recently noticed large ships on the horizon and fast moving, low-altitude aircraft in the skies.

The week-long trip to Ocean City, Maryland, was the real start of summer for the Trinidads, the latest iteration of a sun-, crab- and family-filled tradition that had endured even as four daughters hurtled toward adulthood.

Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defense identified the ships entering the 110-mile strait between mainland China and Taiwan as the Yokosuka, Japan-based destroyers USS Mustin and USS Benfold.

Keyport's Naval Undersea Warfare Center is becoming the modern testing ground for a new type of technology that silently operates in the depths — unmanned undersea vehicles, which are known as UUVs.

There wasn't much going on outside the state's namesake submarine, the USS Hawaii, at pierside Thursday, but inside was a beehive of activity as the Virginia-class sub prepared to get underway for the at-sea portion of Rim of the Pacific exercises.

Miles Miller committed to play basketball at the U.S. Naval Academy, and his March signing ceremony was a fitting celebration. But Miller's basketball dreams were put on hold after the standout basketball player with the 4.5 grade-point average was shot in the leg in April.

A Kaneohe-based sailor remained missing for a fifth day, with his distraught but determined mother arriving Wednesday from California vowing to find her son.

Sheriff's officials are warning service members about scammers who extort money after claiming they missed jury duty.

Nearly 40 years after Eddie Thrasher's death during the Battle of Leyte Gulf, friend and shipmate David A. Lewis met up with some of Thrasher's friends and learned they had been told a lie about how Thrasher had died. "I felt that after all these long years, Eddie's soul could finally rest in peace knowing that his friends finally knew he had died a hero's death."

In December, the Navy awarded an additional $63 million for the “initial rip-out phase” of the USS Fitzgerald's collision damage. From January to July there were more contract modifications for repairs, maintenance and modernizations worth more than $212 million, according to Defense Department statements.

Seaman Shaun Palmer, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, was last seen early Sunday morning when a Marine he was with was involved in an altercation at Kelley O’Neil’s in Waikiki.

Alvin Holsey's closest contact to an aircraft was watching a yellow crop duster spraying a soybean field, but while bagging groceries at the Piggly Wiggly, he told the store manager he wanted to be a pilot. "He said, 'Being a pilot is too hard."

Puget Sound’s first July 4th celebration in 1841 was quite a party. They had a barbecue, drinks and shot off two howitzers sailors carried off a ship. And like so many do-it-yourself fireworks displays, there was a mishap.

The substance, known scientifically as a superhydrophobic coating, repels water, reducing the drag created by a hull moving through the water. The Navy says it could save millions of dollars in ship fuel costs.

The U.S. government, Navy sailors and victims’ families are seeking more than $66.5 million in damages from the owners of an oil tanker involved in a fatal collision with an American warship last year.

A joint program between Bell and Boeing Co. scored a $4.2 billion order for 58 tiltrotor military aircraft, with the much of the work set to take place in Fort Worth and other Texas cities.

The United States and nine allied countries are working to improve their combined tactics to combat submarines in the North Atlantic, where Russia has increased its undersea activity this year.

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The USS Harry S. Truman passed through the Strait of Gibraltar on Thursday, June 28, 2018, and is operating in the Atlantic according to a report in the U.S. Naval Institute News.

Joe Johnson, serving as a naval radio man on the USS Oklahoma when the Japanese began their assault on Dec. 7, 1941, was among 420 sailors and Marines who died aboard the ship.

Among the factors that will be considered to determine whether a sailor could be tagged for early return to sea are: length of time on shore, paygrade, fleet experience, enlisted classification, previous sea duty, and how much longer a sailor is obligated to serve.

A Norfolk police officer was justified in shooting a naval nuclear technician dead after she pulled a gun and shot her husband as the officer was questioning them, the city’s top prosecutor said Friday.

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As President Trump wobbles on long-standing commitments to Japan and South Korea, and calls for shrinking the U.S. military presence in the region — while China is flexing its economic, military and political muscle — the U.S. influence over the South China Sea may be on the decline.

The absence of China’s rising navy won’t have much impact on this year’s Rim of the Pacific drills, the commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet said during a dockside launch of the month-long exercise.

The mother of four covered the Annapolis community, where she had deep professional and personal roots. She was never too far removed from Navy life and is remembered for making the mundane marvelous.

Jesse Iwuji saw what appeared to be small flames and smoke underneath a minivan on the side of the road and helped the family to safety.

Tim Murphy, a former Pennsylvania congressman and reserve Navy officer who resigned from both of his positions last year in the midst of a scandal involving an extramarital affair, said he will not attempt to rejoin the military, two days after a lawmaker asked the Pentagon about the issue.

Parents need not worry, said Commandant of Midshipmen Capt. Robert Chadwick, who was greeting families outside Alumni Hall as the new midshipmen arrived. The students are supervised 24/7 — what parent wouldn't want that?

The Japan-based guided missile destroyer USS Mustin helped a pair of stranded Filipino fishermen whose boat broke down in the South China Sea rejoin a group of fishing vessels.

An organization that lobbies against promoting religion within the Armed Forces has filed an inspector general complaint against the U.S. Navy over a Bible that was included in a POW/MIA “Missing Man” table display at the U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa.

The USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier and two Navy cruisers arrived in Manila on Tuesday after sailing through the South China Sea.

With a backlog of work and the promise of more to come, Newport News Shipbuilding plans to expand its workforce to about 25,000, a level not seen in at least several years, company officials said Tuesday.

The Mariners’ Museum Library has more than 2 million items, including nearly 110,000 rare books dating to the 16th century, maps, charts, and the mother lode of almost everything related to the popular Chris-Craft boat manufacturer.

At an open house June 18, representatives of the Navy and other agencies helping with the water sampling shared findings from the first round of sampling near the landfill and encouraged residents in the vicinity to sign up to have their wells checked.

One of two aircrew on an A-29 Super Tucano light-attack aircraft died when the plane crashed at Red Rio Bombing Range in New Mexico Friday morning, the Navy reported Saturday.

Boeing Co.’s Echo Voyager has headed back to sea for a second round of testing, as the aerospace company looks to demonstrate the underwater drone’s more sophisticated capabilities for a U.S. Navy contract competition.

As King George County, Va., joins agencies using drones to put eyes in the sky, it will contend with an issue particular to its geography: restricted air space around the Navy base in Dahlgren.

According to a report published Friday afternoon by Time magazine, military leaders are drawing up plans to create a tent city at Camp Pendleton to detain as many as 47,000 illegal immigrants from Central America and other locations over the coming months.

Navy couples will now decide which parent gets primary caregiver leave under a new parental and adoption leave policy. The policy consolidates adoption, paternity and maternity leave into a Military Parental Leave Program planned for future release.

The old man died on July 24, 2002. Using the deceased's name, birth date, and Social Security number, Ohio police discovered records for Joseph Newton Chandler III. But Joseph Newton Chandler III had been killed with his parents in a Texas car crash in 1945.

Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Giordano said he would leave to “avoid distraction” as the Navy inspector general’s office completes its misconduct investigation. He had served as the Navy’s top enlisted sailor since September 2016 and had taken leave during the IG inquiry.

Master Chief of the Navy Steven Giordano on Thursday announced he would leave the service in an attempt to “avoid distraction” as the Navy inspector general probes allegations that he fostered a hostile work environment in his Pentagon office.

A Navy veteran charged with kidnapping a 19-year-old woman off Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek shortly before her death can be forcibly medicated so he can stand trial, a federal judge ruled this morning.

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The House Veterans’ Affairs Committee’s plan to pay for a bill to extend Agent Orange disability benefits to 90,000 “blue water” Navy veterans of the Vietnam War will not continue to shield all disabled veterans from a funding fee.

Created to serve as floating hospitals during times of war, the USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort are devoted during peacetime to humanitarian efforts such as the Mercy’s biennial Pacific Partnership mission and the Comfort’s deployment to Puerto Rico after last year’s Hurricane Maria.

Fifty-five years after the USS Thresher sank with 129 men aboard, a group of submarine veterans and the families of those whose lives were lost on board are raising money to install a memorial in Arlington National Cemetery. But there are many challenges ahead.

In the early 1960s, workmen spent months carving up a huge unsubmerged portion of the USS Arizona, sunk by the Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer has issued letters of censure to a retired rear admiral and two other officers found to have accepted inappropriate gifts and maintained unethical relationships with “Fat” Leonard Francis, the central figure in a widespread fraud investigation.

Russia is deploying more submarines to the Mediterranean, the Black Sea and North Atlantic than at any time since the Cold War as part of a growing power game driving the U.S. to revive a decommissioned fleet and NATO to strengthen its naval defenses, the Navy’s top commander in the theater said.

Navy Rear Adm. John Ring, the prison commander, says he hasn't gotten any word that new prisoners are coming to Guantanamo. But since President Donald Trump signed an order keeping the prison open, Ring's staff is now preparing for what a spokeswoman calls an "enduring mission."

Prosecutors portrayed the defendants as failing in their jobs — not using the tools at their disposal properly, not trying to get faulty equipment fixed and therefore failing to see close calls in busy waters over the course of the night — in the moments leading up to the 2017 collision.

A company that owns the commercial oil tanker involved in a deadly collision with a Navy destroyer last year has filed a lawsuit in federal court asking not to be held liable for damages.

A brief Navy statement issued Tuesday about the death of Petty Officer 1st Class Matthew I. Holzemer, of Tennessee, provided no details.

The Navy has launched a misconduct inquiry into accusations raised against Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Steven Giordano, claiming he has fostered a hostile workplace in his Pentagon office.