Like many young people of his generation, David Russell Tyson answered the call to serve his country during World War II when he was still a high school junior.

The Good Friday 2012 crash of a Navy fighter into a Virginia Beach apartment complex remains a fresh memory — and was, once again, a case study Monday for some Naval Air Station Oceana training with Virginia Beach and Chesapeake first responders.

The U.S. Naval Academy announced Sunday it is restricting movement of the Brigade of Midshipmen and returning classes to remote learning, as there has been an uptick in positive cases.

The commander of Yokosuka Naval Base said he anticipated an “improved outlook” for delivery of more coronavirus vaccine.

Midshipmen of the Spanish navy train aboard the vessel, which has taken them across the Atlantic to Argentina, through the Straits of Magellan and across the Pacific to Guam. They sail next for the Philippines on their way back to the Spanish port of Cádiz.

Split evenly for compensatory and punitive damages, the amount is among the largest ever awarded in a state-sponsored terrorism case.

Buffalo & Erie County Naval and Military Park officials said the harsh winter and damaging winds have created a crisis for the 78-year-old Fletcher Class destroyer and major attraction at the park.

After running into rough waters days after departing with the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower strike group, the cruiser USS Vella Gulf is returning to Norfolk for repairs, the Navy reports.

Two U.S. Navy warships operating in the Mideast have been struck by coronavirus outbreaks, authorities said Friday, with both returning to port in Bahrain.

The acting secretary of the Navy and chief of naval operations announced today that Rear Adm. Jeffrey T. Jablon will be assigned as commander of the sub force in the Pacific, replacing Rear Adm. Blake Converse.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said that the Pentagon is conducting a detailed review of how U.S. forces are positioned around the globe to ensure resources are focused on national security priorities.

Midshipman 1st Class Chase Standage sued Superintendent Vice Adm. Sean Buck and former Secretary of the Navy Kenneth Braithwaite in order to block his separation in September after the academy moved to expel him for a series of 40 tweets that academy leadership criticized as inappropriate and, in some cases, racist.

Lt. Cmdr. Joseph Nelson argued on appeal that his sentence was “inappropriately severe,” in light of the nature of his misconduct and 12 years of meritorious military service.

The USS Curtis Wilbur sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, the second time this month the Navy has sent a warship through the contentious waterway.

Chief Petty Officer Justin Huf, a hull technician, died Monday in the intensive care unit at Norfolk’s Sentara Leigh Hospital, according to the Expeditionary Strike Group 2.

The head of Austal USA, which constructs ships for the U.S. Navy on the Gulf Coast, has resigned following an investigation by federal and Australian authorities into practices dating back more than four years, the company said Tuesday.

The sailor was assigned to Assault Craft Unit 4 based at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia Beach, according to a statement by Expeditionary Strike Group 2.

The Ford-class carrier Doris Miller will be the first carrier named for Black American, and also the first named for an enlisted sailor.

The Navy will require its sailors to reaffirm their oaths to the Constitution during daylong unit stand-downs ordered by the defense secretary to address extremism, including white supremacy.

The Carl Vinson’s medical department administered the shots in the hangar bay while the ship was docked at its homeport in San Diego.

The suit centers on the Dec. 6, 2019, shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola in which Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani shot and killed three U.S. sailors.

Sailors from Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek’s Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 2 are spending February in the middle of Minnesota, diving at least twice daily in water just 4 degrees above its freezing point, and under ice that can be 3 feet thick.

Wesley Brown was among the 429 crewmen killed in the attack, in which the battleship took multiple hits from Japanese torpedoes and capsized quickly.

This sword, traveling through the Navy since 1941, is intended to encourage officers who rise from enlisted ranks to become critical staff officers supporting the service’s mission.

Naval Criminal Investigative Service is working with Japanese police to investigate the death of a Navy civilian's child.

The Naval Air Station Corpus Christi community rallied to help sea turtles, which are prone to freezing in frigid waters.

Three Japanese contractors were indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges they defrauded the Navy in a 13-year scheme to illegally dump untreated ship wastewater they were hired to decontaminate, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

The old Big E — the nation’s first nuclear aircraft carrier, now decommissioned — has moved from its home at Newport News Shipbuilding’s Pier 2 so the shipyard can complete a several million dollar upgrade.

A $20 million, 12,000-square-foot USS Bowfin submarine museum opened Monday with a new name and striking look that charts the course of Navy undersea duty, from the loss of the USS F-4's 21 hands off Honolulu in 1915 up through the newest $6.5 billion Columbia-class ballistic missile submarines.

In a way, the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and the three cruisers, four destroyers and nine Carrier Air Wing 3 squadrons that spent much of this winter out at sea have been running scrimmages to prepare for the big game, said the strike group’s commander.

Members of the Navy, Army and Coast Guard aboard the destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill seized weapons in international waters.

The USS Russell conducted a freedom-of-navigation operation in the South China Sea on Wednesday, challenging the “unlawful restrictions on innocent passage” imposed by China, Vietnam and Taiwan, the Navy’s 7th Fleet said.

The U.S. military is still struggling with a lack of diversity, as well as racism and extremism in the ranks, which senior defense officials say is hard to track and expose.

The Navy’s updated coronavirus guidance factors in immunized crews, new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance on the virus, as well as lessons learned by the fleet during the pandemic.

The Navy decided last month to stop taking delivery of new littoral combat ships because of a problem in the ships’ system for merging power from multiple engines to move the vessels at the rapid speeds they’re designed for.

The addition of five Alliance Ground Surveillance aircraft based at Naval Air Station Sigonella in Sicily has been a decade in the making for the U.S.-led alliance.

The winter wave in Japan of COVID-19, the respiratory disease linked to the virus, appears to have crested.

Three sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt have tested positive for coronavirus, the Navy said Tuesday.

The Navy has identified the USS Wasp sailor who died Friday of coronavirus-related complications as an aviation support equipment technician for the Norfolk, Va.-based amphibious assault ship.

The Navy’s first trial run of shipboard vaccination, aboard Norfolk-based USS San Antonio earlier this month, was so successful that it is rolling out an effort for the 5,000 sailors of the strike group.

A midshipman facing expulsion over tweets characterized as inappropriate may not be able to graduate in May from the Naval Academy. A federal judge did not make a ruling in a Friday hearing, and it is unclear how long it might take for the decision.

Naval Station Norfolk said “ciao!” to Italy’s ITS Cavour aircraft carrier on Saturday. The ship arrived during the cold and rainy day for what’s expected to a be a several-weeks stay to ensure it can safely launch and land F-35B jets.

As of Friday, 22 service members, including three other active-duty sailors, have died due to the coronavirus since the pandemic began last year.

The memorial would feature the sail and rudder of the USS Groton and would honor the people of Electric Boat who designed and built submarines, sailors who served on the boats and Groton, Conn., as the "submarine capital of the world."

The Stratford, Conn.-based subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corp. is under contract to manufacture 23 VH-92A presidential helicopters. Sikorsky says it’s on schedule to deliver the next generation helicopter later this year.

Anna and Amero Akinloba were arrested following a U.S. Navy investigation that said they failed to provide proper care for their 7-year-old daughter for most of her young life leading up to her 2018 death.

The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels will be flying over Beaufort again this year as the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort's popular air show returns with a much smaller crowd.

Midshipman First Class Chase Standage is suing the Naval Academy superintendent and former Navy secretary over his expulsion, which is temporarily on hold until Feb. 19.

Limited trajectories and autonomous termination systems make it unlikely a launch malfunction would reach Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay from a proposed spaceport in Camden County about 5 miles away from the base. But there remain concerns.

It turns out that submarine sightings aren’t unusual off Florida’s east coast. But, apparently, the missile test-firings are quite a sight.

Pacific Fleet leaders visited several San Diego-based ships Monday and Tuesday to begin a series of "stand-downs" addressing extremism in the ranks. The stand-downs were ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin last week.

The commanders of two U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups in a conference call Wednesday dismissed Chinese critiques of their drills this week in the South China Sea.

Chief Petty Officer Ramone Joseph was found suffering from gunshot wounds on the ground outside his home in Chula Vista, Calif. around 12:25 a.m Saturday, Feb. 6. He was transported to the hospital, where he died.

The coronavirus outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt was exacerbated by the failure of Navy commanders to follow procedures meant to stop the spread of infectious diseases, according to a Defense Department report.

Two-carrier exercises are relatively rare, though they have seen a recent uptick in frequency. As of Tuesday, just nine have taken place in the Indo-Pacific region since 2001 — four since June.

The Navy announced Monday the cancellation of in-person events associated with annual Navy-sponsored event that is scheduled May 26-31. Instead the Navy will host events on social media, officials said.

The giant Radar has come and gone from Hawaii again as it embarks on another lengthy defense-of-the-homeland and missile defense testing mission.

Analysis

The U.S. Navy conducted its first "freedom of navigation operation" (FONOP) in the disputed South China Sea on Friday and, a day earlier, its first transit of the Taiwan Strait. The moves show the Biden administration may be looking to maintain some of the strategies employed by the previous administration.

Petty Officer Second Class Cody Andrew-Godfredson Myers, 26, was assigned to the USS Tennessee, a ballistic-missile submarine located at Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay, Ga.

Petty Officer Devyn Drake earned the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal for helping to save an infant missing after a carjacking Wednesday morning.

Chief Petty Officer Herbert Rojas is the 21st service member and one of three active-duty sailors to die from the virus since the pandemic began last year.

The first base to have all of the ship spots taken was Rota, Spain. Pearl Harbor, another favorite among midshipmen, was second, with Japanese bases Yokosuka third and Sasebo fifth.

The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain steamed past a disputed island chain in the South China Sea on Friday, a day after transiting the Taiwan Strait, moves that challenge Chinese claims in the region.

The sailor was assigned to the USS Tennessee, a ballistic-missile submarine based in Kings Bay, Ga., according to a statement from Submarine Forces.

Vaccination is voluntary in the military, and it’s a point of pride for San Antonio’s C.O., Capt. Robert Bibeau, that most of his sailors got their shots. In part, that’s the result of a focused effort that ranged from ship-wide broadcasts to deckplate leaders reminders at morning quarters.

A sailor whose remains were found Sunday off the coast of Sicily was a collegiate athlete and one of the last flight engineers trained for the Navy’s P-3C Orion patrol plane.

The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain steamed through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday, marking the Navy’s first trip through the contentious waterway in 2021, according to a Navy statement.

Commissioned in San Diego in July 2017, the Rafael Peralta is one of the Navy’s newest destroyers and is outfitted with the Aegis Baseline 9 combat system.

Almost 16 years ago, the Navy launched a plan to identify Reserve sailors with maintenance backgrounds, familiarize them with shipyard operations and then send them to work there during their annual two-weeks of training.

Task Force One Navy, created in July 2020, was asked to explore issues of racism, sexism and bias and how they affected the readiness of the service.

The sailor found the noose on his rack Jan. 26, according to a Navy official. The ship’s leaders were investigating the incident when the NCIS received an anonymous tip and began its own investigation..

Petty Officer First Class Adel Enayat was initially charged with sexual assault; however, as part of a plea deal with Navy prosecutors, he admitted guilt to a single assault charge during the special court-martial Tuesday.

From the beginning, the Navy's Red Hill underground fuel tanks in Hawaii have leaked, said David Kimo Frankel, an attorney for the Sierra Club.

Kayla Barron and Nicole Mann hope to become the fifth and sixth Naval Academy graduates to visit the moon, and the first since 1972, as part of the Artemis Team.

A body has been recovered but not yet positively identified after a sailor assigned to Naval Air Station Sigonella was reported missing this weekend, base officials said Tuesday.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin over the weekend called the carrier and its strike group home, a report said.

Haters gonna hate, hate, hate — but the Navy Band is shaking off the criticism of its attempt at turning a Taylor Swift hit into a sea shanty in a new video.

Most sailors aboard the U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer Chafee have been placed under quarantine in San Diego hotel rooms following a COVID-19 outbreak among the crew, according to Navy officials.

A demand for more advanced and stealthy U.S. submarines, driven by continued investments by China and Russia in their undersea fleets, means Electric Boat is facing more work than at any other point in the submarine builder's history, president Kevin Graney said.

William Benjamin Gould didn't just seek refuge with the Union Navy boats just outside the reach of the Confederacy. He and several of the other men he fled with joined the Navy, and he almost immediately began keeping a diary of his experience.

Watch a video the Navy says shows a Sukhoi Su-24 fighter-bomber screeching past a U.S. destroyer while it was operating in international waters.

The warship, which carries roughly 350 sailors, arrived on Jan. 23 in San Diego from its homeport in Hawaii for training.

The restriction of movement policies for sailors after they travel or before they deploy are currently decided on and enforced by individual commands.

All those at the U.S. Navy base in Naples, Italy, who sought out coronavirus shots during Phase 1 — which began Jan. 8 and included health care providers, first responders, essential workers, deploying troops and people age 65 and older — have received them, officials said.

The majority of the new coronavirus cases reported by the U.S. military in Japan were at Yokosuka Naval Base.

The unnamed service member shipped liquid marijuana to a woman’s house using international mail last year, according to the report.

A rusting AK-47 left over after USS Forrest Sherman’s seizure of Iranian-made missiles and other weapons led to the commander losing his job about one week early.

The required testing is typically done twice a year, however with the pandemic, the Navy reduced it to just one. The window to take the test for 2021 will now be from July 1 to Dec. 31.

Electric Boat will concurrently build the Virginia class and Columbia class submarines at its Groton and Quonset Point, R.I., shipyards. Columbia, which military leaders see as a top priority of the Navy’s, will replace the aging Ohio class of ballistic missile submarines.

As commanding officer of the Naval Submarine Base, Capt. Todd Moore's job is to prepare sailors and submarines to go to sea. But a new duty has emerged for him in the fight against COVID-19: Persuading sailors to get vaccinated.

The destroyer USS Porter began its transit into the Black Sea on Thursday in support of NATO efforts, joining two other Navy vessels.

Sea shanties have become all the rage on the video-sharing network TikTok — but it seems netizens are never, ever, ever getting behind the Navy's version of Taylor Swift's “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together.”

A contested case hearing is scheduled for Feb. 1-5 to debate the Navy obtaining a state operating permit for the Red Hill fuel farm, with the Sierra Club of Hawaii hoping it leads to stricter controls in the short term and relocation of the controversial underground tanks longer-term.

SEAL Team 6 member Tony E. DeDolph, who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter, also was demoted from chief petty officer to seaman and will be dishonorably discharged. He must forfeit pay.

The Navy is moving its East Coast amphibious ships to Hampton Roads and will shift some guided-missile destroyers to Naval Station Mayport in Florida.