The Camp Blaz clinic will include pharmacy, physical therapy, radiology, laboratory, logistics, optometry, occupational health and dental departments.

Adm. Charles Richard, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, says the Minuteman missile is so old that Air Force technicians have had to perform magic to keep it fully functional while coping with severely limited spares for components such as missile launch switches.

The USCGC Maui fired about 30 warning shots Monday when 13 vessels of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps came too close to the U.S. ships and "conducted unsafe and unprofessional maneuvers."

Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, toured destroyers that were under construction and spoke to workers and leaders on Monday.

When USS Gerald R Ford headed out to sea last month for some final weeks of tests and trials, the ships that will sail with it as part of Carrier Strike Group 12 seized the chance to practice working together.

Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, is scheduled to tour ships that are under construction and speak to shipyard workers and leaders.

The U.S. Navy officially commissioned it new $525 million, 785-foot warship Saturday at a ceremony ahead of its departure for the western Pacific sometime this summer.

The U.S. Navy announced Sunday it seized an arms shipment hidden aboard a vessel in the Arabian Sea, the latest such interdiction by sailors amid the long-running war in Yemen.

The Navy said it is investigating the cause of the release and "is fully committed to environmental stewardship and continues to work closely with federal and state agencies."

Since 2018, the Navy has asked to repair and update the nation's four aging shipyards, which would assist in its pursuit of its congressionally mandated goal of a 355-ship fleet.

The U.S. Navy is in the process of constructing the USS Idaho, a nuclear attack submarine that will go on active service after a commissioning ceremony in the summer of 2023.

Four students who scrawled swastikas, offensive messages and images of genitalia on the walls of Naval Station Rota schools were suspended but can remain in school.

A gray, stealth-looking vessel with an American flag drew the attention of people out on a whale-watching charter early on Wednesday.

The Navy exceeded its retention goals and announced a select list of ratings would qualify for early separation.

Adm. Samuel J. Paparo replaces Adm. John Aquilino as commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, who assumed leadership of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command on Friday.

Six fast-moving blue blurs, better known as the U.S. Navy Blue Angels, will become even faster blue blurs when they headline this weekend’s 2021 Fort Lauderdale Air Show May 8-9.

Officials originally declined to pursue charges of trespassing and battery against Chief Petty Officer Nakari McWhorter, according to the City Attorney's Office and the investigator's report.

Cale Foy, a Navy rescue swimmer, faced the most dramatic rescue mission of his 17-year career last weekend when a migrant smuggling boat overloaded with 32 people on board had capsized near San Diego.

Navy pilots from Carrier Air Wing 5 flew to Iwo Jima on Wednesday to sharpen their carrier landing skills before their next patrol aboard the USS Ronald Reagan, Naval Forces Japan said.

Even as the civilian world eased dining restrictions last summer and again this spring, sailors in San Diego were not allowed to patronize reopened "non-essential" businesses.

The new policy, expected to last throughout the pandemic, “limits the number of personnel in the workplace by maximizing remote work, flexible scheduling and other methods, synchronized with the HPCON level.”

Coronavirus restrictions have hurt sailors’ morale and may prompt some to jump ship when their terms of service expire, a Navy commander wrote recently in an independent journal.

The massive Northern Edge joint exercise kicked off Monday in Alaska, bringing together about 15,000 U.S. airmen, sailors, Marines and soldiers and 240 ships and aircraft, including the Air Force’s newly upgraded fighter, the F-15EX Eagle ll.

Marine Corps and Navy officials told House lawmakers on Monday that they are looking at ways to create a culture of safety following the sinking of an assault amphibious vehicle that killed nine service members last year.

Tears of disappointment quickly turned into tears of joy for former Navy football player Cameron Kinley on Saturday night.

The ice was 4 feet thick. The water temperature below was 28 degrees. The wind howled south from the North Pole, just 900 miles away. But the Seabee divers from Little Creek kept diving.

A recent market assessment by the county's B3K economic development collaboration suggested more can and should be done to promote "technology transfer" of government-sponsored innovations at China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station and Edwards Air Force Base.

The move to Health Protection Condition Level Bravo means military personnel can leave their homes for non-essential tasks, but they still must follow basic health protection guidelines.

Announcing the two-ship, $14.9 billion contract in 2019, the Navy said ordering two at a time would save more than $4 billion.

Adm. Philip Davidson took a parting shot at Beijing on Friday as he ended his 39-year Navy career and handed the reins of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command to the former head of the Pacific Fleet.

Navy Medical Forces Pacific said that it has provided 66,148 first doses and 49,745 second doses of the coronavirus vaccine to people on active duty. There are about 110,000 people on active duty in San Diego County.

Taking the reins from retiring Rear Adm. Gary Mayes as the 42nd region commander, Rear Adm. Wesley McCall thanked his predecessor for his leadership at Thursday's ceremony at NAS Jacksonville.

The 355-ship goal initially resulted from a force structure assessment in 2016 analyzing current and future needs of the Navy.

The systems will eventually serve as the primary air traffic radar for the Navy’s nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and amphibious ships with large decks.

Cmdr. Joseph Lautenslager was dismissed from the fast-attack sub by Capt. Michael Majewski, who heads Submarine Squadron 7, after losing confidence in his ability to command, the Navy said in a news release.

Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, said he won’t sacrifice capability and readiness in exchange for a larger fleet.

Corneilius Donte Brown, an aviation ordnanceman 3rd class assigned to the San Diego-based aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, was shot and killed after answering an early morning knock at the door of his apartment in La Mesa, Calif.

Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Harker said the Navy and Marine Corps have data compiled over the last couple of years that can be used to identify which units have a higher risk of having an assault.

The christening of Lenah Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) was originally scheduled for 2020, but was postponed due to COVID-19 restrictions. Brian Cuccias, who recently retired as Ingalls’ president, returned to host the event.

The federal government has shielded the U.S. Navy from paying its fair share to clean up a toxic dump on Guam by selective use of two key environmental laws, an attorney for Guam argued Monday before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Shawn Skelly, a retired aviator, was nominated by the White House on Friday to serve as the assistant secretary of defense for readiness, a key assignment as the Pentagon refocuses its priorities to combat adversaries such as China and Russia.

The remains of William E. Blanchard, who died when he was 24 years old, finally has been identified, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced Friday morning.

At halftime of Saturday's Army-Navy men's lacrosse game, New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick will be presented with the key to the City of Annapolis.

Gen Sun, 35, was assigned to the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4 as a constructionman and deployed to Tinian with a Seabee construction detail, the 7th Fleet said.

Adm. John Aquilino was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday to be the next commander of Indo-Pacific Command, making him the top military officer in the strategically important region.

An Osprey has made the tiltrotor aircraft’s first-ever landing on a Navy hospital ship, an important step in an effort to increase the speed in which patients and crucial supplies can be brought aboard.

Huntington Ingalls Industries is expanding its reach into the nonmilitary market for underwater drones, with the release of a commercial version of its REMUS 300 unmanned underwater vehicle.

If confirmed, Rear Adm. Karl O. Thomas, the assistant deputy chief for naval operations, plans and strategy at the Pentagon, will return to Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan.

The Class of 2024 will have its Herndon Climb on Saturday, May 22, the weekend before graduation, Superintendent Vice Adm. Sean Buck said in a letter to parents of midshipmen. The Herndon Climb was postponed in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Iwo Jima has Marine aviators and their Harriers on board. With the group are sailors from Norfolk-based Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 26 and Assault Craft Units 2 and 4, which operate the landing craft and air cushion vehicles that bring Marines to the beach. Those Marine Harriers mean the group can undertake strike missions while the Marines, the beach masters and Seabees are an expeditionary force that can respond to crises.

Photos and video of unidentified objects in the sky published on two websites dedicated to reports about UFOs and the paranormal were shot by Navy personnel, the Pentagon said.

A decade ago, Tyler Tidwell was an infantry officer leading Marines deployed overseas, on a trajectory some believed would lead to the highest levels. Today, he needs help just getting out of bed and struggles to be understood when he talks, using an eye-control device to communicate via email and text with the outside world.

The Navy can’t force an orthodox Jewish sailor aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt to shave his beard, at least until the end of the month, a federal judge has decided.

Andre Shelby, 54, of Jeffersonville, Ind., will compete against 15-20 other archers in a qualification tournament next month that will see three selected to travel to Japan with the U.S. Paralympic team.

Miles from the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower as the carrier patrols the Arabian Sea, the USS Laboon had passed through the Strait of Hormuz and into the Persian Gulf to drill alongside the French Navy’s flagship, the carrier FS Charles de Gaulle.

The Navy has confirmed that the sailor who died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound Sunday at the Kahala Hotel & Resort was a lieutenant commander assigned to the Naval Submarine Support Center at Pearl Harbor.

Two more Navy destroyers are expected to be based out of Rota, Spain, within the next few years, a move that will help U.S. European Command keep closer tabs on Russian submarines, the top U.S. officer on the Continent said Thursday.

A naval aviator with experience in Iraq spanning from Operation Desert Storm in 1990-91 has been nominated to command the San Diego-based 3rd Fleet.

A team of Little Creek-based Navy Seabee divers is back from a three-week mission in Tunisia — the first joint operation with Tunisian divers since before the Arab Spring brought democracy to that North African nation.

Six weeks after cutting short its deployment to return to Norfolk for repairs, USS Vella Gulf sailors again found welding slag and bits of metal in a strainer on the cruiser’s lube oil system. They’ll have to stay in port and remain on board in a COVID-19 bubble while contractors come in and flush the ships entire lubrication oil system.

William McRaven, a former head of U.S. Special Operations Command, in a new book describes the “most gut-wrenching tragedy” he faced during his military career and the important lesson he learned from it.

The death of a sailor of a self-inflicted gunshot after a barricade situation at the The Kahala Hotel & Resort was the third tied to Hawaii's submarine force in the past 16 months.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Saturday discussed with his Philippine counterpart China's recent positioning of "militia vessels" near the Philippines in the South China Sea.

Houston Congressman Dan Crenshaw, a former Navy SEAL who lost an eye in Afghanistan, underwent emergency surgery on Friday for a detached retina, leaving him blind for at least a month. Prospects for recovering his vision remain uncertain.

The U.S. Naval Academy will hold its graduation and commissioning ceremony in person at the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium this year, the academy said Friday.

Navy officials said in November that while Bonhomme Richard was salvageable, the time and price of repair — five to seven years at an estimated $2.5 billion to $3.2 billion — were too steep to warrant saving the 22-year-old ship.

Capt. Jeffrey Hill took over command Friday of Naval Air Station Jacksonville, the third-largest Navy base in the country.

Sleep has often been considered the enemy of America's armed forces, something to be conquered with caffeine, prescription drugs, or willpower. Now that may be changing.

Marines storm a beach, fighter jets line up on an airfield and troops parachute from an aircraft in the latest installments of a book series for children living in military communities.

Media reports said Yokosuka Naval Hospital determined that Lt. Nathanael Allison wrote the letter, in which he complained of being forced to live with his family in a building for enlisted families, that drew controversy on social media.

The F-35 Joint Program Office, a combined group of civilian and Air Force and Navy uniformed personnel overseeing the ongoing development of the F-35 stealth fighter jet, has come under criticism from the Department of Defense for apparent deficiencies at an F-35 software laboratory at Eglin Air Force Base.

Navy's swimming and diving coaches were not upset about Wednesday's announcement that the Patriot League Championship meet had been canceled.

A Naval Academy midshipman was sentenced to 20 months in Naval prison and dismissed from the Naval Academy after being found guilty of child pornography possession.

The Navy was especially hard hit, seeing declines in availability of resources and ship maintenance backlogs, the GAO said.

The Navy on Okinawa has identified a civilian employee who died after vanishing from a popular tourist spot in December.

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John Kirby described the USS John S. McCain's transit as a freedom-of-navigation operation and not a response to any specific event or action by another country.

Cmdr. Kathryn Dawley had commanded the Pearl Harbor-based ship since April 2020.

One of two sailors wounded Tuesday in a shooting near Fort Detrick, Md., has been released from a Baltimore hospital, though the other is still in critical condition, according to the Navy.

The USS John C. Stennis now has an in-house team led by sailors with training as riggers ready to help out when shipyard riggers’ to-do list starts growing too long.

The Navy and Marine Corps Relief Society is there when sailors and Marines need emergency help, such as when word comes from back home about an ill family member or a surprise bill.

Zheng Yan was an assistant to Ge Songtao, the head of a Chinese company that wanted to ship inflatable rubber “raiding craft” and military-grade motors from American companies into China and hide their destination.

Since the Blue Angels’ last Fort Lauderdale visit in 2019, the Navy’s legacy Hornets, flown in air shows since 1986, have been replaced by faster, sleeker twin-engine F/A-18 Super Hornets that pack 40 percent more power under the hood, Air Show president Bryan Lilley says.

The guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn has returned to San Diego, its homeport, after a busy four months in the Indo-Pacific region, the Navy said.

The French navy is drilling with U.S. and allied forces in the Indian Ocean as French soldiers prepare to train alongside U.S. Marines and troops in Japan.

Eight Marines and a sailor drowned as their assault amphibious vehicle sunk near San Clemente Island off the coast of California during a training exercise last July.

Rear Adm. Trent DeMoss, commander of the Navy’s Fleet Readiness Centers, was relieved “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command,” according to a Navy statement.

A letter, allegedly authored by an officer assigned to Naval Hospital Yokosuka, states that living in an apartment building for enlisted families is “unacceptable.”

Sailor feedback prompted the Navy to change grooming standards terms that are considered vague, according to a Navy administrative message.

All midshipmen, who are not on restriction or have other military duties, will have liberty Saturday through Monday, although there are different time restrictions based on the class.

As Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Norfolk, watched the struggle to refloat a giant container ship in the Suez canal — a waterway she transited a half-dozen times in her Navy career — she kept thinking about the cold of the Arctic and the coral lagoons of the South China Sea.

The public has until May 14 to comment on the potential impact that work may have on the site of new facilities for the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing on Andersen Air Force Base.

An expedition by undersea technology company Caladan Oceanic found the wreck of the Fletcher-class destroyer USS Johnston this week below 21,180 feet of water east of Samar Island in the Philippine Sea.

A gathering Wednesday at Montana's Capitol in Helena celebrated a nuclear-powered U.S. Navy submarine that will bear the state's name and carry a crew of honorary Montanans.

The Norfolk-based USS Dwight D. Eisenhower strike group started flight operations this week to support the continuing campaign against Islamic State remnants in Syria and Iraq.

Navy entomologists say every measure has been taken to eradicate the infestation, and sailors can return to the fast-attack sub.