The head of the Navy’s Surface Forces says the service is solving manning shortages that have plagued the 7th Fleet, which experienced a pair of deadly collisions last year.

It will be Trump’s first time speaking to the academy’s graduating class, as last year Vice President Mike Pence gave the address. Graduation will be at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium at 10 a.m. May 25.

The recent storm on the Hawaiian island of Kauai dropped 28 inches of rain in 24 hours, causing flooding, utility outages, road closures and destroying homes on the north shore of the island.

The 844-foot amphibious-assault ship — which had been homeported at Sasebo since 2012 — set sail Wednesday afternoon for San Diego, where it will receive upgrades that include a new flight deck to allow it to carry the Marine Corps’ state-of-the-art F-35B Lighting II stealth fighter.

Naval Surface Group Western Pacific was stood up as a detachment in October but became a permanent command based out of Yokosuka — home of the Navy’s 7th Fleet — on April 11.

Capt. William Sherrod, the commanding officer of USS Somerset, was relieved of his duties due to command climate concerns that were not tied to any one event, according to the Navy.

The Navy said today that Chief Petty Officer John Ellsworth Hasselbrink, a submariner who served 22 years at Pearl Harbor, was shot and killed in Ewa Beach early Sunday after attempting to enter a residence.

The USS Milius is scheduled to depart its San Diego homeport Friday and arrive at Yokosuka in late May, a Navy statement said. The assignment is part of the Navy’s goal of sending its most advanced and capable ships to the Pacific region.

Navy Rear Adm. John Ring, a former commander of the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier, became the 18th commander of Guantanamo prison operations Tuesday, taking charge of a 1,700-member military and civilian staff responsible for 41 war-on-terror captives.

Austin Williams was struck by a vehicle while crossing a road on April 5th in Bahrain. The U.S. sailor recently re-enlisted for six years and transferred to Bahrain last month.

A jury announced Monday that it could not agree on whether a Navy commander assaulted and tried to rape a junior officer in her San Diego home.

Seaman Anthony Greco thought his hockey days were probably over when the Navy sent him to Bahrain. He was wrong.

Navy officials said in a report the T-45C Goshawk was flying below allowable altitudes last October when it plunged into a forest near Tellico Plains.

Pat Gjerde wasn’t old enough to buy a beer by the time he became a disabled veteran. But more than 20 years after his first deployment, he re-enlisted and went to Afghanistan to fight again for his country.

Caitlin Trask was preparing for a second deployment in 2009 when she was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend at a military housing complex in Virginia two months shy of her 21st birthday.

The Navy is refreshing its fleet of more than 560 F/A 18 Super Hornets to keep them flying as its front-line fighter into the 2040s.

Three SEALs accused of committing war crimes in Afghanistan hope to escape court-martial by expanding an evolving legal concept unique to the military — the appearance of unlawful influence by commanders.

The USS Portland, a new Navy ship that will be commissioned later this month in its namesake city, has entered the Columbia River.

Sailors in ranks E-1 to E-8 now have until June 1 to apply, the Navy announced this week. The deadline had been April 11.

NEDU — a Naval Support Activity Panama City tenant unit that does biomedical research and saturation dives — is using special eyewear called Tobii Pro Glasses 2 that monitors a user's retina location and headgear called Artinis Brite23 that tracks blood flow and oxygen levels in the brain during training.

Navy leaders told anxious lawmakers Thursday that an expanded 355-ship fleet is indeed on their radar, and they’ll get there in the mid-2030s, two decades sooner than previously envisioned.

Naval Air Station Jacksonville said goodbye to its old commanding officer and welcomed a new one. Naval Station Mayport got its first glimpse of the ship delayed by weather since Christmas Eve.

Since its Jan. 5 departure, the nuclear-powered warship patrolled the South China Sea and interacted with four nations, including a groundbreaking port visit to Vietnam in March.

Half of the U.S. Navy ships that will participate in Fleet Week New York next month are based in Norfolk.

Wednesday’s homecoming of the “Blueblasters” Strike Fighter Squadron 34 was the final touchdown for its aircraft. The squadron has been flying the last of the Legacy Hornets, the only 10 remaining F/A-18C jets in the naval air force.

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A mishap extended what was meant to be a five-hour press tour of the Carl Vinson into 30 hours aboard Carrier Strike Group One’s flagship — but the extra time provided a window into an average day at sea on the nuclear-powered warship.

Rep. Rob Wittman, R-Va., said Wednesday he is confident that Huntington Ingalls Industries can make the case for two aircraft carriers at once, something that has not been done since the Reagan defense buildup of the 1980s.

The frigate HMS Sutherland – the first of three warships England plans to deploy to northeast Asia – pulled into port Wednesday. The vessels will “safeguard free trade, partake in joint training and exercises, and support UN sanctions against [North Korea].”

Retired Col. Billy Lee Little Jr. said he wooed retired Rear Adm. Brian L. Losey for 90 minutes to become a confidential informant, sharing his inside knowledge about what he seemed to believe were the “political” shenanigans surrounding a probe into three SEALs accused of committing war crimes in Afghanistan in 2012.

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The Helena lay at the bottom of Kula Gulf undisturbed for 75 years until late last month when an expedition aboard the research vessel Petrel discovered and filmed the lost ship.

Newport News Shipbuilding is on track toward building the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy with 18-20 percent fewer working hours than its predecessor, the shipyard’s president said Tuesday — a savings that would be unprecedented in carrier construction.

Adm. Philip S. Davidson will replace Adm. Harry Harris, who is expected to retire in May and has been nominated for the ambassadorship to Australia.

Glenn Tipton was killed aboard the battleship USS Oklahoma during the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor. His remains were identified after his family submitted DNA five years ago to the U.S. Navy as part of its efforts to distinguish the remains of sailors.

The convention hall housing the Navy League’s 2018 Sea-Air-Space Exposition at the National Harbor in Maryland was packed with military technological wonders large and small.

Come September 2019, sailors will have to pass an online military knowledge test in order to take the E-4, E-5 and E-6 advancement exams.

Recent U.S. deployments of aircraft carriers, backed by destroyers, to the disputed waters for freedom of navigation challenges to Beijing's territorial claims are reassuring allies but also sparking concerns with China's own show of force in the busy waterway.

After a flurry of Monday motions in the courtroom of Navy Cmdr. Arthur Gaston, the military judge ruled that Vice Adm. James Crawford III — the Navy’s judge advocate general — appears to have exerted unlawful command influence in a case first brought to light by a 2015 story in The New York Times.

The USS Wasp has trained alongside a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel for the first time since arriving at its new homeport in Japan earlier this year.

Ellen DeGeneres invited the San Diego couple on her program because Brian Alvarado recently received the honor from Military Spouse magazine.

The completed deactivation of the former USS Enterprise was confirmed Monday by officials at the Sea-Air-Space 2018 exposition in National Harbor, Md.

The high-altitude drones will be able to provide combat information to expeditionary and carrier strike groups and can communicate directly with the Navy’s manned P-8A Poseidon aircraft.

As a way of saying thank you to those who serve, Girl Scout Troop 91, based out of North Myrtle Beach, has completed — and exceeded — its goal of sending 600 boxes of cookies to the men and women aboard the USS New York.

Officials were first alerted to the issue Thursday evening, when a complaint was received from the New York-based Law Office of Donald Rehkopf Jr. on behalf of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and 26 families on Okinawa. It was addressed to Rear Adm. Paul Pearigen, Navy Medicine West commander.

The strike group, carrying 6,500 sailors and Carrier Air Wing One, will cruise alongside the German frigate FGS Hessen during the first half of the deployment. The German ship conducted a brief mission with the Harry S. Truman in 2010, the Navy said.

An effort to continue providing tens of millions of dollars in state tax breaks to a Navy shipbuilder is now law.

The U.S. Naval Academy Museum has held a public viewing of a large British flag that was captured during the War of 1812.

A nonprofit group dedicated to safeguarding servicemembers’ constitutional right to religious freedom has lodged a formal complaint with the Navy after a Bible was spotted in a POW/MIA “Missing Man” table display at U.S. Naval Hospital Okinawa.

The U.S. Naval Academy Museum will fully display a 35-foot-by-25-foot captured British Royal Standard flag from the War of 1812 Saturday for the first time in a century.

A Navy chaplain was fired last month from his post at a Marine Corps command after he was caught on video having sex with a woman at a pub in New Orleans, according to two Defense officials.

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Navy Lt. Lauren Alderson, a family medicine physician at Naval Health Clinic Oak Harbor, Wash., much prefers the Defense Department’s new electronic health record system MHS Genesis, even in its testing stage, over the legacy AHLTA system it has replaced, so far, at four military medical facilities in Washington state.

The future USS Thomas Hudner (DDG 116) successfully completed four days of builder’s trials and returned Saturday afternoon to Bath Iron Works.

The Navy's newest Freedom-class littoral combat ship would have arrived in Northeast Florida in January if it weren't for colder-than-normal temperatures that caused the ship to be stuck in ice near Montreal since late in December.

Delivery of the USS Daniel Inouye has slipped more than a year due to a schedule change with the contractor, which means the 510-foot warship won’t arrive in Hawaii until 2020.

The F-35Cs will be assigned to Carrier Air Wing 5 of the USS Ronald Reagan strike group. MCAS Iwakuni already hosts a squadron of Marine Corps F-35Bs flown by Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 121.

If you want to tour a Navy ship during Fort Lauderdale's Fleet Week, your chance to sign up comes Wednesday, and registration in previous years has booked up quickly.

Navy pilots would rather have more time in the cockpit than cash bonuses designed to keep them in uniform, according to the chief of naval personnel.

Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III was secretly investigated after he was wined and dined by a corrupt contractor. Locklear was later cleared of wrongdoing, but his association with Leonard Glenn Francis — the man behind the worst corruption scandal in Navy history — helped sink his chance to become the nation’s top military officer.

Lt. Cmdr. James Brice “Drama” Johnson and Lt. Caleb “She-Ra” King were killed in an F/A-18F Super Hornet crash on March 14 while they were training near Key West, Fla., in an incident that is still under investigation.

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Recent accidents involving 7th Fleet ships — the USS John S. McCain and USS Fitzgerald — are still raw in the minds of instructors and students of the Navy's Surface Warfare Officers School Command Engineering Learning Site. The school keeps sailors proficient on firefighting and flood-control skills learned at basic training.

The man, who works for the Arctic Submarine Laboratory in San Diego, was flown with serious head and neck injuries last week to Anchorage from a temporary camp on an ice floe 140 miles north of Deadhorse.

A U.S. Navy combat ship named for New Hampshire's largest city will be commissioned on May 26.

A former Navy sailor in Corpus Christi has been convicted of distributing a video showing the drowning of puppies, according to the U.S. attorney’s office.

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A U.S.-led naval exercise that brought together 31 countries to strengthen efforts to combat piracy, drug smuggling and human trafficking ended Thursday in West Africa.

The Virginia Beach-based F/A-18F Super Hornet crashed on final approach during a training mission about a mile from Naval Air Station Key West. It’s unclear how long one of the engines had been out before the crash.

French pilots and aircraft from four squadrons will train at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Naval Station Norfolk, and Naval Auxiliary Landing Field Fentress in Chesapeake.

The F-35C Lightning II has completed fleet carrier qualifications — a step that brings the Navy’s variant of the joint strike fighter closer to operational status.

The USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier is back in the Pacific after four months in the Arabian Gulf launching strikes against the Islamic State and the Taliban.

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More than 4,000 servicemembers are embarked with the USS Wasp and its strike group during its first patrol since arriving at its new homeport at Sasebo Naval Base earlier this year.

The Trump administration expelled 60 Russian diplomats and closed the Russian consulate in Seattle — the latter to help block Moscow from spying on U.S. Naval Base Kitsap, the home port of U.S. Navy nuclear submarines in Washington state.

Navy divers spent the past few weeks retrieving training torpedoes fired by two U.S. submarines as part of an exercise north of Alaska.

A U.S. Navy sailor who went to a Manchester motel seeking sex, told police he was robbed by three women.

Two historians have resolved a decades-old mystery about how many men died when the USS Indianapolis was struck by Japanese torpedoes during World War II.

VFA-213, known as the Blacklions, was training in Florida when Johnson and King's F/A-18 Super Hornet crashed about a mile from Naval Air Station Key West.

The drone-based coastal mine detection system is designed to identify surface mines and other obstacles on beaches or surf waters, which until now needed to be done by sailors or Marines actually landing for a first-hand look.

The Navy is offering aviators as much as $175,000 to stay in uniform as it struggles with a pilot shortage.

Some Yokosuka residents and personnel were ordered to shelter in place Thursday after unexploded ammunition from World War II was found at a child-development center construction site.

As he trembled and wiped away tears, former sailor Alec Wagner pleaded guilty this morning to accidentally shooting and killing an 18-year-old friend in 2016.

The Navy has proposed mothballing one of its two floating hospitals – the USNS Mercy or the USNS Comfort – to make budgetary room to expand its fighting capabilities.

The Seawolf-class USS Connecticut and the Los Angeles-class USS Hartford each fired several training torpedoes, which carry no warheads and hold a minimal amount of fuel, during the Navy’s five-week Ice Exercise.

The amphibious assault ship spent the past couple of weeks undergoing a “ready-for-sea assessment,” during which F-35B Lightning IIs landed aboard the vessel for the first time.

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The USS Juneau became a symbol of wartime sacrifice after it was sunk by a Japanese torpedo during the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942. Nearly 690 sailors – including five Iowa brothers known as “The Sullivans” – went down with the ship.

The Navy on Monday moved closer to buying two aircraft carriers at once, formally requesting shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries to “further define” possible cost savings of a double purchase.

The least expensive method of double-walling the Red Hill fuel tanks could cost between $500 million and $2 billion, the Navy said in a newly released estimate.

A catastrophic eruption is not imminent and probably won’t happen for many years, said Christopher Kilburn, a volcanologist at University London College. Still, authorities should be prepared for an emergency response, he said.

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer says the submarine is a “marvel of technology and innovation.”

The tiny Eastern North Carolina community of Atlantic has joined a growing list of military areas across the country affected by contaminated drinking water.

Lt. Cmdr. James Brice Johnson and Lt. Caleb Nathaniel King – both assigned to the “Blacklions” of Strike Fighter Squadron 213 at Naval Air Station Oceana – died after the aircraft went down on final approach to Naval Air Station Key West Wednesday.

The Navy has more deeply scrutinized the ill effects of sleep deprivation in the wake of two separate deadly collisions by the guided-missile destroyers USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain last summer, in which 17 sailors died.

A day after President Donald Trump reportedly hinted at a withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Korea, Adm. Harry Harris, who leads Pacific Command, warned such a move would be viewed as a win for North Korea.

The fleet’s history stretches back to March 15, 1943, a year and three months after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.

Dynamic Manta is an annual, 11-day NATO exercise meant to improve coordination between participating navies. The exercise off the coast of Sicily ends Friday.

Rear Adm. Scott Stearney had been nominated to take charge of the epicenter of naval operations in the Middle East. He is also slated to lead Naval Forces Central Command and receive a promotion to vice admiral.

A P-3C Orion airplane monument put up by the Navy nearly two decades ago to memorialize a long history of maritime patrol service at Naval Air Station Barbers Point on Oahu, Hawaii, has been removed, creating a backlash in the community and concern over how the process was handled.

Two congressional leaders say they want answers from the Navy’s top admiral on why they were not told at a congressional hearing about a serious mishap inside an electronic warfare jet where temperatures plunged to Arctic-like below zero levels and severely reduce visibility while flying, forcing the crew to seek medical treatment.

One hundred years ago Tuesday, the USS Cyclops was due to steam up the Chesapeake Bay and dock in Baltimore at what is now Port Covington. The ship still hasn’t shown up.