The Navy on Friday closed its review with what it called appropriate administrative action for Vice Adm. Ted “Twig” Branch, the former director of Navy intelligence.

A Navy explosive ordnance disposal technician received the Silver Star this week for his actions during a deadly 10-hour firefight with Islamic State militants that helped his fellow sailors navigate a minefield, the Navy announced Friday.

Navy officials Thursday touted test results showing little to no contamination in private wells near the former Brunswick Naval Air Station but pledged to continue sampling for a potentially harmful chemical once used in aviation firefighting.

Vice. Adm. Tom Rowden has ordered ship captains to establish routines no later than Dec. 20 that will give sailors predictable watch schedules and sleep periods, according to a copy of the directive obtained by Stars and Stripes.

The U.S. Coast Guard says a woman and two children were rescued from a boat that went missing off Puerto Rico during Hurricane Maria, but a man died aboard the vessel. His body was not retrieved and the boat capsized.

Petty Officer 1st Class Gregory Kyle Seerden, a member of SEAL Team 1 in San Diego, faces a minimum of 15 years in prison.

The Navy is standing up a new unit to look at warship readiness in the Western Pacific following a string of serious accidents.

The USS Kearsarge, an amphibious assault ship, and its supporting ships in ESG-2 — the USS Oak Hill, a dock landing ship, and USS Wasp, also an amphibious assault ship — have been stationed in and around St. Thomas and St. John for more than a week as part of the overall U.S. Department of Defense’s relief efforts.

A Virginia-based company has been awarded a $17.9 million contract to build a waterfront headquarters building at Naval Base Guam as part of plans to relocate Okinawa-based Marines to the tiny Western Pacific territory in the coming years, Navy officials said Tuesday.

A row of grieving families looked on Tuesday morning as top Navy officials told a chorus of frustrated senators that years of high operational demands combined with budget constraints could have contributed to two deadly ship crashes.

Two medical staffers at a military hospital in Florida were barred from caring for patients after they were seen in disturbing images mishandling a newborn, making obscene gestures and calling babies "mini Satans."

Dog tags from a fallen U.S. Navy SEAL from Illinois went missing over the weekend, says the city's police chief.

A new lawsuit is challenging a decision by the U.S. Forest Service to let the Navy use Olympic National Forest for expanded electronic-warfare training exercises.

The Navy relieved two more commanders in 7th Fleet on Monday amid fallout from two deadly collisions involving the destroyers USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain.

Vice Adm. John Alexander recently took command of the Navy’s 3rd Fleet, vowing to continue expanding its role in the Pacific.

Jacob Drake, 21, was one of 10 sailors killed aboard the Navy's USS John S. McCain when it collided with a merchant ship in the South China Sea on Aug. 21

Funeral services have been held for a New Jersey man who was among the 10 U.S. sailors killed last month when a Navy ship collided with an oil tanker off Singapore.

Women have served on submarines since 2011, but none have done so in Norfolk. The Navy says that will change next summer when the USS John Warner welcomes its first female crew members: a slate of three officers.

The Navy plans to expand its search on the former Brunswick Naval Air Station property for potential contamination from chemical compounds that have caused health alarms near military bases in New Hampshire and other states.

Many sailors learn that leaving home to go to sea can be bittersweet at first. Petty Officer 2nd Class James DePoy calls it "the underway blues." It's an experience the musician and sailor might turn into a song.

WWII veterans gathered on the deck of the USS Little Rock on Friday to remember the kamikaze attack that killed 60 sailors aboard the USS Emmons.

The military is examining whether compromised computer systems were responsible for one of two U.S. Navy destroyer collisions with merchant vessels that occurred in recent months, Vice Admiral Jan Tighe, the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, said on Thursday.

Lockheed Martin and Navy officials have been working to use commercial off-the-shelf technology to reduce costs and take advantage of the technological skills sailors grow up with. The integration of the video-game Xbox controller grew out of that effort.

Services are set for the New Jersey man who was among the 10 U.S. sailors killed last month when a Navy ship collided with an oil tanker off Singapore.

The Navy has awarded the architect-engineering contract to Colby Company. They say the first task under the contract is for almost $1 million and it is for construction at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery.

Four Chinese navy ships have departed for joint drills with Russia in the latest sign of growing cooperation between the two militaries that could challenge the U.S. armed forces' role in the Asia-Pacific.

An image posted to a Pentagon media site and tweeted by Scottish journalist Ian Keddie, shows the USS Jimmy Carter, a Seawolf-class nuclear-powered submarine, returning to her home port in Washington Tuesday flying the American flag alongside the unmistakable pirate skull and crossed bones, known as the Jolly Roger.

Cmdr. David Morales did not enter a plea during his brief arraignment Wednesday in a military courtroom on Naval Station Norfolk. He was the first Navy official charged by the military in the Fat Leonard investigation that uncovered widespread corruption in the Navy’s Japan-based 7th Fleet.

Mayport Naval Station should be back to business as usual later this week, said Capt. David Yoder, commanding officer at Mayport.

An honor guard procession, led by the police chief from the Madison County village of West Jefferson, escorted Jacob Drake's body to Rader-McDonald-Tidd Funeral Home in West Jefferson.

The Navy uses long-term temporary assignments to perform maintenance and repair work on ships, but Sen. Susan Collins says a reduced reimbursement makes it more difficult for public naval yards to conduct ship maintenance and modernization.

Rear Adm. Daryl Caudle has assumed command of all Navy submarines in the Pacific.

The service is trying to add new sailors and retain those already enlisted, allowing some to stay in uniform longer without being promoted. The Navy’s budget for the 2018 fiscal year aims to add 4,000 sailors, bringing its roll up to 327,900.

While the Navy committed to more capital investment and developed an improvement plan in 2013 to turn the situation around, “the shipyards’ facilities and equipment remain in poor condition,” according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Dustin Doyon, one of the 10 killed in the Aug. 21 crash of the USS John McCain, was buried Tuesday in a private ceremony in Connecticut.

A retired Navy officer who later became a high-ranking civilian defense employee at Camp Smith told a federal judge Monday it was “hubris, selfishness and a sense of entitlement” that led him to take part in a massive Navy corruption scandal.

A central Illinois sailor who died when the destroyer USS McCain collided with an oil tanker near Singapore last month was remembered as a hero during his funeral Monday.

A burial service with military honors is set for Thursday for a Texas sailor killed when his ship, the USS John McCain, collided with an oil tanker last month near Singapore.

More than 40 Illinois Patriot Guard Riders joined Decatur emergency responders to help return Logan S. Palmer to his Central Illinois home. On Friday, a large crowd gathered outside of Brintlinger and Earl Funeral Homes to watch the escort for the 23-year-old sailor's body as it pulled in front of the building at 2827 N. Oakland Ave.

“So far no damage of any significance has been reported or discovered,” Navy Capt. Dave Culpepper told the roughly 5,500 residents in a midday broadcast on Radio Gitmo.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand on Friday called out Navy leadership for its slow response to alleged drunken sexual misconduct at a Pentagon Christmas party involving an aide to the service's top officer, demanding an independent review of the case by the Department of Defense Inspector General.

The beautiful weather created a peaceful, solemn scene at Blandford Cemetery, Va., on Friday morning, as the family of Navy Ensign William Manley Thompson finally got to lay their relative to rest after 76 years.

Even as Rachel Eckels sat poised and smiling Thursday afternoon in a crowded and tense congressional hearing room, a long list of urgent and painful questions haunted her.

A 240-foot salvage ship is on its way to aid in the recovery of a crashed Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter and its missing crew west of Kaena Point, a spokesman for the 25th Infantry Division said.

Rear Adm. Michael Holland faces a tumultuous start as the new commanding officer of Submarine Group 10.

At a congressional hearing Thursday examining two recent warship crashes, the Government Accountability Office will tell congressional members that the Navy has been woefully behind on addressing a long list of outstanding and urgent readiness issues.

The U.S. Navy prepared seven warships including an aircraft carrier, and the National Guard readied nearly 20,000 servicemembers to respond to areas in Hurricane Irma’s path as the storm reached Cuba on Friday en route to Florida, defense officials said.

The USS John S. McCain will head back to its homeport in Japan for a damage assessment later this month, Naval Sea Systems Command announced Wednesday.

The first sailors to get the new uniforms will be at the Navy’s Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill., at Officer Candidate School in Newport, R.I., and in the Southwest Region, the Navy said in its message.

Unexpected engineering problems will keep the USS Blue Ridge in dry dock through early next year — months past its scheduled completion date of August 2017.

The facility boasts 89 military staffers, plus 31 Department of Defense civilian and contractor employees and a wonderland of display screens so exact that they’ve made sailors sea sick on land.

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said the Navy is consulting with several industrial partners to conduct their own probe. The effort aims to find causes for the crashes, who’s responsible and boost safety for servicemembers.

Senior Chief Jay Okonek can identify with Texans who found themselves stranded in flooded homes during Hurricane Harvey.

Only about 50 sailors from the Fitzgerald’s crew of about 300 will remain aboard the ship when it travels this fall to Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Miss.

The Pentagon said Tuesday that it was putting two U.S. Navy ships staffed with Marines on standby to help FEMA in the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.

The U.S. Navy has decided not to evacuate family members and other non-essential staff from its remote outpost at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, concluding that the more than 5,000 residents can weather Category 5 Hurricane Irma as it grinds through the region, a spokesman said Tuesday.

A sailor assigned to Yokosuka Naval Base was arrested Sunday on suspicion of causing bodily injury after an incident at a local beach, Japanese police said.

Rear Adm. Jeffrey A. Harley is leading implementation of a new four-year strategic plan aimed at preserving tradition while steering the 133-year-old institution in new directions.

The USS Constitution is reopening for public tours following more than two years of restoration.

Florida legislators sent a letter in March asking the secretary of defense and the secretary of the Navy to include funds in the 2018 budget to allow a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier to be stationed at Mayport Naval Station on a permanent basis.

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More than 40 sailors and local American and Japanese civilians punched, wrestled, grappled and choked their way through a mixed martial arts clinic led Saturday by a retired Ultimate Fighting Championship competitor.

Since the Navy created an advanced motorcycle safety course in 2008, the number of fatalities throughout the service dropped from 33 in fiscal year 2008 to 12 in 2016. But there already have been 18 fatalities since October, with one month left in the fiscal year.

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The rain stopped, finally. But the water didn’t. It’s everywhere. From the sky, water surrounding buildings stretched for miles, a devastating remnant from Hurricane Harvey. Roads and highways disappeared, and roofs looked like they were floating.

Marquise Hubbard developed the Sailors Mobile and Readily-Accessible Trainer over a two-year period. The app functions like flashcards, allowing sailors to study for and or take practice exams in preparation for their advancement exams.

The Navy has posthumously promoted the 10 USS John S. McCain sailors who were killed Aug. 21 when the guided-missile destroyer collided with a merchant ship just east of Singapore.

The only Navy vessel ever named for the city of Jacksonville returned from its final deployment on Aug. 10 and will remain at its home port at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii until its decommissioning.

A Navy commander charged with accepting gifts of food, drink and prostitutes in the service's long-running "Fat Leonard" corruption scandal was of too little value to even conspire with, his lawyer argued Wednesday.

Navy leaders say the nation needs about 350 ships, roughly 75 more ships than the fleet has today. Adm. John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, says they could get closer to the target faster by counting unmanned vessels with capabilities similar to a manned ship— a new twist on the definition of a ship.

When he fired up the MH-60 Seahawk helicopter Wednesday morning, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Pat Dunn thought it was going to be an easier day over the floodwaters of Hurricane Harvey.

Spencer, a Marine aviator who flew CH-46 helicopters while serving at Marine Corps Air Station Tustin and lived in Newport Beach in the late 1970s, toured assets of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force.

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The amphibious-assault ship USS Wasp departed Naval Station Norfolk Wednesday for its new home at Sasebo Naval Base Japan.

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Navy investigators have found no evidence that cyberintrusions played a part in the serious collisions of two guided-missile destroyers in the past three months, the Navy’s chief of naval operations said Wednesday.

After a brief tour of the littoral combat ship Gabrielle Giffords, Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer praised the crew by telling them they were America’s “pointy end of the spear.”

Dustin Doyon graduated from Cathedral High School in Chicopee, Mass. in 2009 and enlisted in the Navy in April 2015. The 26-year-old was one of the 10 sailors killed when the USS John S. McCain collided with an oil tanker.

In a twist of fate and amid the confusion that was rushed upon Hawaii following the December 7, 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, 14 of Hickam’s 189 fatalities from that day were never officially identified and have never had a name on their gravestones.

Navy and Marine Corps divers have recovered the bodies of all 10 missing USS John S. McCain sailors killed in a collision last week, the Navy said Monday.

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Constant deployments, a shrinking number of ships and high demands on crews have frayed the U.S. Navy, according to naval experts and current and former Navy officers, leading to four major incidents at sea this year and the deaths of 17 sailors.

The fire was caused when a drip pan designed to collect condensed moisture in the server room clogged, the water overflowed and shorted out an uninterruptible power supply.

Vice Adm. Phillip Sawyer, who most recently served as Pacific Fleet’s deputy commander, assumed command Wednesday when Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin was relieved “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command,” the Navy said.

With Hurricane Harvey barreling down on Corpus Christi and the Texas coastline, the Navy has evacuated dozens of aircraft and thousands of personnel from its two bases in the direct line of the growing storm, which is expected to make landfall early Saturday.

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The USS Coronado tested a harpoon block 1C missile, striking a target beyond the littoral combat ship’s visual range, Navy officials announced this week.

The USS Porter is training with the Romanian navy this week as part of its mission to augment security in the Black Sea region, where tensions remain high because of Russia’s intervention in Ukraine.

Navy and Marine Corps divers have recovered the body of a second USS John S. McCain sailor, the Navy’s 7th Fleet announced Friday.

Experts say it’s highly unlikely hackers were behind two separate instances of Navy ships colliding with commercial vessels in the past two months. But they also said it's not impossible — and the Navy is investigating.

The Navy’s Pacific commander warned sailors against complacency and urged a back-to-basics approach to their duties during an operational stand-down ordered after a U.S. warship collided with a commercial ship for the second time in two months.

The Navy identified all 10 sailors who went missing after the collision with a Liberian oil tanker Monday east of Singapore. Divers will continue attempting to recover remains from the USS John S. McCain's flooded compartments.

Congress will hold a hearing next month in response to a series of accidents in recent weeks involving the U.S. Navy.

A body recovered this week in waters near Singapore by the Malaysian navy is not one of the missing sailors from the USS John S. McCain, Navy officials said Thursday.

A 1983 graduate of the Naval Academy has assumed command of the U.S. 7th Fleet after military officials dismissed Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin on Wednesday due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command.

Vice Adm. Joseph Aucoin, the head of the Navy’s 7th Fleet, was relieved of command Wednesday in the wake of a string of accidents across the Pacific involving Navy ships. The search for the missing USS John S. McCain sailors continued Wednesday.

The Navy has not released the names of the 10 missing USS John S. McCain sailors, but five among the missing have been identified by their families. The search continues aboard the ship and at sea, but already a number of bodies have been found.

A Mississippi-based company has been awarded a contract to repair the USS Fitzgerald after it was damaged in a June 17 collision that killed seven sailors off Japan.

The Navy says sepsis was to blame for a USS Ronald Reagan sailor’s abrupt death last fall during a patrol in the Yellow Sea.

The ceremony for Lt. Stephen Hopkins took place Tuesday at the Chapel of Hope at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, according to a photo posted Wednesday on the 7th Fleet’s official Facebook page.

The Navy's recent disasters in the Pacific region have prompted scrutiny of what has long been considered one of the service's premier fleets.