The crew of a U.S. Navy vessel has transferred the 41 migrants they rescued over to Italian coast guard ships off Sicily.

The Navy has accepted delivery of a destroyer named for a naval aviator who crash-landed his plane to try to save a downed pilot in the Korean War.

Sen. Marco Rubio's attempt to amend the 2019 defense authorization bill has caught the eye of Virginia's two senators, who fear it might be a step toward moving an aircraft carrier from Norfolk to Florida.

Defense Secretary James Mattis is urging U.S. Merchant Marine Academy graduates to always maintain integrity and "run the ethical midfield."

The Navy said the dock landing ship is scheduled to leave Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story on Monday. The Gunston Hall will bring aboard Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, which is based at Camp Lejeune, N.C., before continuing south to Latin America.

Nike apologized Friday and stopped a fashion collection after the U.S. Naval Academy objected to a logo, saying the similarities between the logo and the academy's historical seal are "undeniable" and a trademark infringement.

Gregory Allen Farr, 34, has been charged with manslaughter in the April 15 shooting in Hawaii of Navy submariner Chief Petty Officer John E. Hasselbrink. In addition to being charged with “recklessly” causing the 41-year-old sailor’s death, Farr also faces two counts of possession of an unregistered firearm.

Italian news reports say a U.S. Navy ship will offload the 40 migrants its crew rescued earlier this week onto an Italian coast guard vessel that will bring them to shore.

Floating at the bottom of the Secret Reef tank while speaking through a set of speakers to the kids sitting beyond the glass, U.S. Navy Senior Chief Bryan Cummings played his part by talking about his work, highlighting how science, technology, education and mathematics play a part in the sailors' day-to-day lives.

A sailor serving aboard the USS Chancellorsville has become the first Filipino-American to re-enlist in the Philippine Sea, according to the Navy.

The Naval Academy is demanding that Nike and the Undefeated stop using a logo closely resembling its historic academy crest. The brands' collaborative line, dubbed The Fives, features shirts, pants, jackets and other soccer apparel adorned with the altered crest.

A former member of the U.S. Navy has been sentenced to prison for illegally keeping classified national defense information, including that of some U.S. nuclear operations.

Explosive ordnance experts have determined that a suspicious package left inside the gate of the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard near a ferry terminal in Bremerton is not an explosive threat.

The National Museum of the United States Navy is free and open to the public, but it's on the Washington Navy Yard - a military base that intentionally deters casual visitors.

A U.S. Navy vessel is waiting to learn where it can disembark 40 migrants who survived a capsizing off Libya.

The four clinics in Eastern Kentucky are designed to simulate how military medical responses are conducted in times of crisis, conflict or disaster, according to a news release from the National Guard.

The 24th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training, or CARAT, which began Wednesday in Thailand, also includes stops in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Bangladesh. Similar training will also occur with Vietnam and the Philippines.

Nike and Undefeated, a Los Angeles-based sneaker boutique, released the logo for their new collaborative soccer apparel. It looks an awful lot like the Naval Academy coat of arms.

With the Trump administration trying to expand the Navy's fleet, congressional curiosity is growing over whether Nimitz-class ships could stick around a few years longer.

A suspicious package led to a temporary closure of the Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base early Tuesday afternoon, officials reported.

The U.S. Sixth Fleet, which is based in Naples, Italy, said in a brief statement that the USNS Trenton on Tuesday "rendered assistance to mariners in distress that it encountered while conducting routine operations in the Mediterranean Sea."

The adventurous life of a fast-rising Pearl Harbor Navy officer came to a tragic end May 20 when he may have encountered problems using a complex “rebreather” device in the early stage of an off-duty dive off Waikiki.

First came the Polaris missile, built during the Cold War. Then came the Poseidon, powered by a two-stage, solid-fuel rocket. Trident 1 replaced the Poseidon and included a drone system, then was followed by Trident II, a missile with even greater payload, range and capacity.

U.S. Navy leaders are in Rhode Island to strategize with scholars about how technology and innovation will affect the nation's security.

A simulated standoff between fictional countries added a twist to the mass casualty rescue drill conducted Sunday during NATO’s Baltic Operations exercise, a two-week event including the United States and 15 other militaries.

A provision of the House-passed version of the next National Defense Authorization Act “would require all vessels that are part of the U.S. naval fleet to be treated as though they are assigned to home ports in the United States or Guam for purposes of maintenance and repair.”

A draft report issued by a Navy command raises concerns about a lack of skilled workers in nuclear-related fields at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia.

The Tennessee event is one of 14 Navy Week celebrations taking place in the U.S. this year. The U.S. Fleet Forces Band and brass band Uncharted Waters are scheduled to perform.

Chinese government hackers have compromised the computers of a Navy contractor, stealing massive amounts of highly sensitive data related to undersea warfare - including secret plans to develop a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines by 2020, according to American officials.

Cmdr. Anthony Johnson recommended that both cases go before an administrative separation board, where each sailor will likely face a board of inquiry to determine whether their performance was substandard and whether they should be separated from the Navy.

Funeral services will be held Saturday for a Pennsylvania sailor who was killed 77 years ago during the bombing of Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

The Navy kicked off a nine-day training exercise with India and Japan one week after U.S. Pacific Command changed its name to U.S. Indo-Pacific Command.

Nearly 84 percent of Navy first-tour junior deck officers randomly tested were not competent to drive their ships without raising concerns, particularly when “immediate action” was required “to avoid collision,” according to findings the Navy released Wednesday.

Why spend any resources on the Navy’s oldest operational carrier? Because the Pentagon is committed to expanding its carrier fleet from 11 to 12 as soon as possible.

To this day, D-Day remains the largest amphibious invasion in history, with more than 160,000 troops landing in France. The Allies sustained at least 9,000 casualties that day on the way to opening up a Western front in the war against Germany.

An Oahu grand jury returned a manslaughter indictment today against an Ewa Beach man who shot and killed a person attempting to enter his home.

The sailor was accused of sending narcotics through international mail from Canada after Yokohama Customs found about 18 grams of synthetic drugs in a package addressed to his off-base apartment.

The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded Raytheon a $14.9 million contract to start joint production of the Naval Strike Missile for use aboard its small combatant ships, including current and future littoral combat ships and planned guided-missile frigates.

Navy officials and a small crowd on Monday marked the 76th anniversary of the three-day battle, recognized as the turning point of World War II in the Pacific

Lt. Cmdr. David McDonald, Lt. Heidi Schreckenbach and Kylee Cisneros are the first nurses within NMCCL to earn Trauma Certified Registered Nurse certification; McDonald and Schreckenbach are among the first in the U.S. Navy.

A Yokosuka master-at-arms won the U.S. Forces Japan’s Iron Dog competition, which featured featured 17 handlers and their canines squaring off in challenges, for the second year in a row.

Seaman Kelija Rheubottom placed third out of 132 junior chefs in a “student skills” competition during this spring’s 43rd Annual Joint Culinary Training Exercise at Fort Lee and Fort Picket in Virginia.

Competition is heating up in the race to build the Navy's next warship, with foreign and U.S. manufacturers vying for a multibillion-dollar opportunity.

For 73 years, the remains of Nashville World War II Navy pilot Harold DeMoss have been difficult to reach — but not hard to find.

A San Diego judge has dismissed the case against Cmdr. John Neuhart, who was accused of trying to rape a junior officer. However, Neuhart remains in the Navy and may still face a military trial.

Nearly 29 years after Heath Phillips was discharged for going AWOL after repeatedly attempting to get his command to intervene in a series of sexual assaults committed against him, his doggedness paid off. The Board for Correction of Naval Records agreed on Wednesday to overturn his record and grant him an honorable discharge.

The $87 million contract covers maintenance for DDG 51s and FFG 7s. The work will be performed in Bath by February 2019.

The Navy announced on Wednesday that 26 nations, 47 surface ships, five submarines, 18 national land forces, and more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel will participate in the biennial RIMPAC being held June 27 to Aug. 2.

Adm. Philip Davidson was not the only thing new for the Pacific combatant command; it has been renamed U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, or INDOPACOM, reflecting the rising strategic importance of the Indian Ocean, India and Sri Lanka.

Sailor Samantha Metott said the Navy encourages them to do community service. Organizing community litter campaigns that reward participants with local brewery tours is her way of doing it.

A major defense contractor agreed to pay $20 million to settle U.S. charges that it bilked the Navy in a ship-supply contracting scandal at ports around the world, the Justice Department announced.

The Navy recently invested more than $6 million into a 1942 Portsmouth Naval Shipyard building originally constructed to ramp-up production leading into World War II.

Darrold Martin, who works for a defense contractor and is himself a Navy veteran, has long understood the meaning of Memorial Day. But he knows this year is different.

Russ Fennick was just 3 months old when Navy Seaman William R. Fennick left Norfolk aboard the USS Scorpion on a routine deployment to the Mediterranean. He has seen his father only in photos since.

The world of media and entertainment has rushed to find ways to celebrate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., whose brain cancer diagnosis came just 11 months ago.

The U.S. Pacific Command is holding a ceremony May 30 at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam as Adm. Phil Davidson relieves Adm. Harry Harris as Commander.

Alan Bean was the lunar module pilot on Apollo 12, which made the second moon landing in 1969.

U.S. Navy Adm. Bill Moran, the 39th vice chief of naval operations, was asked to speak at Saturday's ceremony because of his personal connections to New Hampshire.

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President Donald Trump told the Naval Academy's graduating class Friday that the nation, buoyed by increased defense spending and a favorable economy, has regained its swagger and is "respected again."

Cmdr. Alfredo Sanchez, the commander of the USS John S. McCain when it collided with a commercial tanker last year, pleaded guilty as part of an agreement reached earlier this year and was sentenced to a letter of reprimand and forfeiture of $6,000 in wages.

The USS Gerald R. Ford will return to Newport News Shipbuilding in mid-July for important upgrades and fixes to problems discovered during initial periods at sea, the Navy said this week.

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The citation for retired Navy SEAL Britt Slabinksi’s Medal of Honor – an upgrade from the Navy Cross he initially received for his heroics – describes “a murderous hail of machine gun fire” greeting Slabinksi and his commando team as he “charged directly toward the enemy” up the mountainside.

Chief Petty Officer Jeffery D. Butler is among several Navy members facing punishment in the wake of separate collisions involving two Japan-based Navy destroyers in 2017.

The USS Blue Ridge lit its boilers for the first time in two years this week, signifying a big step toward bringing the Navy’s oldest deployable warship back to sailing condition.

The cases center on two sons of New England who grew up as strangers about 50 miles apart, but are connected by their actions during the opening months of the war in Afghanistan.

Cmdr. Jeffrey S. Tamulevich was removed from his position, and the Navy has launched a probe into his alleged relationship with a junior sailor.

The men bathed in the ocean and lived in tents. They’d repair the planes with aluminum cans or whatever they could get their hands on. And they couldn’t run on the beach because they'd sink in the dark sand and ash mixture from a volcano, Joe Tusa recalled.

A Defense Department spokesman, described disinviting China’s navy from participating in the biennial Rim of the Pacific exercise as a first step in protesting China’s actions in the Spratly Islands.

Naval Submarines Base New London this week named a new dive locker, the facility used by divers who perform underwater maintenance on the 15 attack submarines based in Groton, after Donna Tobias, the Navy's first female deep-sea diver.

The Navy’s newest fighter jet, the stealthy F-35C, may not have the range it needs to strike enemy targets, the House Armed Services Committee said in a new report, raising troubling questions about whether the multibillion-dollar program is already outpaced by threats.

The new restrictions, which come into effect on June 1, cover Naval Support Activity Monterey, Calif.; Naval Air Station Kingsville, Texas; and Naval Support Activity Orlando, Fla.

The Navy’s 7th Fleet welcomed the destroyer USS Milius and its crew of 300 to the ship’s new home at Yokosuka on Tuesday.

A sailor doing time at the Miramar brig sought to get out early but was rejected by a military court, which ruled that he knowingly agreed to a lengthier sentence to seek treatment for sex and pornography addiction.

Several hundred young warriors stormed a 21-foot-high obelisk at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis on Monday, slipping and sliding as they formed a human pyramid around a monument covered in 50 pounds of vegetable shortening.

The future USS Manchester arrived on the Piscataqua River during lunch hour Monday, with Sen. Jeanne Shaheen and Gov. Chris Sununu aboard, and sailors' family members, veterans and officials awaiting the crew at the New Hampshire State Pier.

From routine maintenance to engine overhauls, plenty of companies in Northeast Florida are ready to offer the necessary services when the military needs work done. So when that work goes elsewhere, it's no surprise politicians get involved.

The 145 foot-long NR-1 was launched on Jan. 25, 1969. During the next 40 years, the sub undertook a variety of missions — including search, recovery, oceanographic research, geological surveys and installing and maintaining underwater equipment — as well as countless military missions that are still classified today.

The strength and force of the 608-ton, 421-foot future USS Manchester is undeniable. But perhaps one of the most historic aspects of the U.S. Navy's newest littoral combat ship is the clout of the women behind it.

On May 25, Under Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly will address the Naval Academy's Class of 2018. The event falls 35 years to the day after his own graduation.

The Navy fired the skipper of the USS Harpers Ferry on Thursday, the fourth senior San Diego-based amphibious warship leader to be relieved of duty over the past year.

On May 25, Under Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly will address the Naval Academy's Class of 2018. The event falls 35 years to the day after his own graduation.

An event called "An Evening to Remember" held at Heritage State Park, drew people who were eager to remember and to honor the late Navy Capt. Thomas J. Hudner Jr., a Fall River native who received the Medal of Honor for a valiant attempt to save the life of a fellow Navy pilot during the Korean War.

Cooks on the USS Harry S. Truman must feed about 5,500 people while the ship is in the eastern Mediterranean launching sorties against the Islamic State group.

USS Ronald Reagan pilots are resuming field carrier-landing practice on the remote island of Iwo Jima, the Navy said Friday.

The USS Curtis Wilbur arrived in the beach-resort town of Shimoda Friday to help celebrate the 164th anniversary of the signing of a treaty that opened trade relations between Japan and the United States.

America’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier’s upcoming deployment will be delayed because of a “material issue,” the Navy said Thursday.

Commanders are calling it the “year of change” for Navy medicine but Rear Adm. Paul D. Pearigen is excited about what the reforms promise, especially for submariners.

Adm. Scott Swift passed the baton of leadership for U.S. Pacific Fleet to Adm. John Aquilino during a pier-side ceremony Thursday.

After he left for a hike, Jeremiah Adams, a Navy sailor stationed in Washington state, was reported missing. His body was found Saturday after nearly a week-long search at the bottom of an embankment in the vast Olympic National Forest.

What's it like behind the controls of a landing craft air cushion, or LCAC? Sailors told us what it takes to be a "craftmaster."

More nighttime Navy hovercraft training off Japan’s southern coast is sparking noise complaints and fears of collisions with local fishing boats.

Lawyers for Cmdr. Bryce Benson on Tuesday issued a surprising one-page rebuke of statements from senior Navy leaders and other officials since last year.

Operation Three Arrows, a counterpiracy exercise that brought together warships and patrol aircraft from the United States and six other nations, has concluded in the Gulf of Aden after 12 days of naval drills.

One night in his Virginia home, Jimmy Hatch decided he was ready for all of the pain to stop. His wife had to snatch a gun from his hands and later knock a knife away before Norfolk police and members of his unit arrived to help. He details his painful experiences in his book "Touching the Dragon and Other Techniques for Surviving Life’s Wars.”

The USS Milius, which was updated this past year with the Aegis Baseline 9 combat system, is bringing enhanced missile-defense abilities to the region.