The presidential helicopter isn't supposed to leave scorch marks on the White House lawn. So the Navy and Lockheed Martin are working to fix a "high risk" problem after the new Marine One did just that in a test without the president on board.

The new app gives active-duty sailors the ability to electronically submit travel receipts, complete vouchers and apply for government housing and childcare during their moves between duty stations.

"It was a great honor to be part of something historic," Rojas said. "It was wild. You see all of the people you see on the news, President(s) George W. Bush and Barack Obama, all of those people you never thought you'd be able to see. It was a crazy feeling for sure."

The financial officer at the U.S. Naval War College, Comptroller Mark Murphy, is leaving, but college officials say his departure isn’t connected to an investigation at the school.

AmerAsian School in Okinawa was founded by mothers looking for a safe environment to educate their mixed-race children without the threat of bullying. Servicemembers have visited the school to connect with students and help with projects around campus.

The Navy will now accept applications continuously from female enlisted sailors to serve in non-nuclear rates, said an administrative message signed by Vice Adm. John Nowell Jr., chief of naval personnel.

Boatswain’s Mate Martin Anthony was performing maintenance on the USNS William McLean when he died, officials said.

The amendment inserted into the National Defense Authorization Act calls on the Secretary of the U.S. Navy to publicly exonerate the "Port Chicago 50" – the group of African-American sailors who refused to go back to the Concord Naval Weapons Station to load and unload dangerous munitions without proper safety training.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison on Friday flew to visit the USS Ronald Reagan in the Coral Sea, the U.S. Navy said Saturday.

The sprawling 1.1 million acre Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake sustained significant damage in the 6.4 and 7.1 magnitude quakes which struck the Southern California desert on July 4 and 5. While flight operations resumed Wednesday, the base remains closed to non-essential personnel.

The upper bow section, a giant piece of the puzzle, was recently lifted into place, according to a company news release. It weighs 780 tons and took 18 months to build.

Last week’s back-to-back earthquakes hit the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake with such violent force that they damaged the base’s elementary school and created the largest surface chasms caused by the recent temblors in Southern California’s high desert area, according to state officials.

Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher, through an attorney, is asking the public to help him persuade a Navy admiral to reduce his jury-imposed punishment for posing with the body of a dead Islamic State fighter in 2017.

The Navy said the Truman headed out to sea last week to participate in a training exercise that will certify whether its entire strike group is ready for a variety of real-world scenarios they could face wherever they go.

The aircraft carrier and its crew of 4,500 spent five days at the Port of Brisbane following a bumpy start. The 103,000-ton ship ran into a crane Friday as tug boats pulled it into port.

The Navy is making room for the possibility of a much-talked-about transit center, one that local leaders have dubbed “San Diego Grand Central Station,” at the 70-acre base that overlooks Interstate 5 in Point Loma.

U.S. Naval Forces Japan bid farewell to a retiring commander and welcomed a new one Wednesday at a ceremony in Yokosuka’s theater.

Two strong quakes — a magnitude 6.4 and a 7.1, respectively — struck Thursday and Friday near the small California town of Ridgecrest, just outside the 1.2 million-acre Navy installation in the Mojave Desert.

The Pentagon has been without a confirmed secretary of defense since Jim Mattis left office in early January. Since then, the Defense Department has been developing plans for how it will facilitate the transition of the president’s intended pick into the top role at the Pentagon.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced the federal lawsuit Tuesday, saying the Navy failed to adequately examine the effects that having nearly 50,000 flights per year would have on people or wildlife.

As President Donald Trump and Iran trade threats, ships like the USS Whirlwind are at the front lines of the rising frictions, patrolling the strategic waterways of the Persian Gulf.

The rider was not named, but Navy officials confirmed he was a petty officer assigned to Naval Medical Center San Diego.

Thomas Lewis Garner was arrested in March for the 1984 murder of 25-year-old Pamela Cahanes who was found strangled in an overgrown Seminole County lot just days after she graduated from Navy boot camp in Orlando.

Two people, including a retired Navy service member, have pleaded guilty to stealing more than $60,000 worth of electronics from a Maryland Navy Exchange Store.

The Sea-Based X-Band Radar recently did yeoman duty in the Pacific watching for North Korean missiles and participating in testing as the Pentagon develops a web of new land-based radars and space-based sensors that are expected to make the seagoing vessel less necessary.

Many are talking about whether the trial of Navy SEAL Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher was fair and whether the system of military justice worked.

The training, which comes amid heightened concern about Chinese influence in the South Pacific, is expected to be closely monitored by a Chinese Auxiliary General Intelligence vessel, according to Australia’s ABC television network.

The four-star admiral set to become the Navy's top officer on Aug. 1 will instead retire, an extraordinary downfall prompted by what Navy Secretary Richard Spencer on Sunday called poor judgment regarding a professional relationship.

Rudolph and Leo Blitz were due for a leave from the USS Oklahoma in December 1941. They never made it home — until now.

A Florida congresswoman who leads a committee on climate change will tour Naval Station Norfolk, the Port of Virginia and other parts of Norfolk and Chesapeake affected by flooding on Monday.

The evacuation of non-mission essential active-duty military, reservists, civilian employees and authorized dependents from Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, Calif., was authorized by Navy Region Southwest following three major earthquakes in two days, according to base social media accounts.

Navy Lt. Jacob X. Portier, whose legal fight is just beginning, is charged with a number of offenses related to those that Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher fought during his recent trial.

President Donald Trump on Wednesday offered his congratulations to Edward Gallagher, a decorated Navy SEAL platoon leader who was found not guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of a wounded Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017.

The Independence-class littoral combat ship arrived in the Philippines last week and will host local military and civic leaders during its time in port.

Airman Matthew Chialastri, an aviation boatswain's mate on the USS Ronald Reagan aircraft carrier, went down with 10 other crew and passengers in the Philippine Sea 500 miles off the Japanese island of Okinawa during a routine mission Nov. 22, 2017.

A recent assessment showed a proposed plan to relocate the ammunition wharf at Naval Weapons State Seal Beach would not negatively affect surrounding communities and wildlife.

The aircraft carrier Gerald R. Ford, which is packed with new systems, has endured a litany of technological problems during construction and testing.

A seven-member jury panel convicted Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher on only one count, related to Gallagher taking pictures alongside an Iraqi fighter’s corpse, which is the kind of charge that carries a maximum punishment of four months.

The new study examined the sex ratio of 7,087 infants born between 2001 and 2015 to the partners of sailors assigned to nuclear-powered attack submarines, ballistic missile submarines or cruise missile submarines.

After 14 years with the Indo-Pacific with the 7th Fleet, the USS Stethem is returning to San Diego to operate under 3rd Fleet once more.

Vice Adm. Raquel Bono, who heads the Defense Health Agency, visited the five bases in the Pikes Peak region last week to learn more about how the military’s medical system here has worked since it was unified starting in 2005.

Navy wife Lindsey Stacy wasn’t ready for what it would take to keep everything together while her husband was hospitalized week after week. And she wasn’t ready for how many people — relatives, friends, strangers — would step forward to help.

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Tuesday’s visit was the first by members of the McCain family since the guided-missile destroyer collided with the Alnic MC, a commercial tanker, near Singapore on Aug. 21, 2017.

The commanding officer of a Navy littoral combat ship that struck a moored merchant ship in the St. Lawrence River in Montreal has been removed from duty “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command," the service said Monday.

Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher is charged with premeditated murder, aggravated assault and willful discharge of a firearm in connection to his platoon’s 2017 deployment to Mosul, Iraq, to assist the Iraqi Army’s battle against the Islamic State.

Bath Iron Works has filed an official protest of a nearly $1 billion contract awarded by the U.S. Navy to Huntington Ingalls Industries for planning yard services for shallow-water combat ships.

Elizabeth Smith's home, where even the fish tank bubbles with bottled water and the recycling bin is constantly filling with plastic jugs, is among tens of thousands in Bucks and Montgomery Counties with drinking water contaminated by harmful chemicals that, in most cases, flowed off two former military bases.

Former Navy baseball pitcher Noah Song was selected by the Boston Red Sox with the last pick of the fourth round (137th overall) of the 2019 Major League Baseball Draft earlier this month.

In statements, U.S. senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner said they were concerned about what was happening with the security barrier and that they were monitoring the situation.

Sailors can be reimbursed up to $500 to cover the cost of their spouses’ professional licenses or certifications if an assignment requires them to move to a different state, the Navy announced this week.

Six employees of Oahu Parachute Center, three visitors and two local skydivers died Friday in the fiery crash of a twin-engine aircraft that took off on a sunset skydive flight in Mokuleia and left no survivors. Among them was Navy Lt. Joshua Drablos, who was assigned to U.S. Fleet Cyber Command.

Brutal police body camera footage of the death of unarmed 32-year-old Navy veteran David Baker who fought with three Aurora officers for seven minutes, and who was shocked with a Taser multiple times, was released Monday night.

The U.S. Navy will name its newest rescue ship the "Cherokee Nation" to honor the service and contributions the Cherokee people have made to the Navy and Marine Corps, according to a news release.

Thousands of sailors and Marines sailed into 5th Fleet waters Monday as an amphibious assault group led by the USS Boxer deployed to the region, where tensions are flaring between the U.S. and Iran.

The new flag, a tribute to sailors killed in the ship's 2017 collision, is deep blue with white lettering, featuring the phrase, “Don’t Give Up the Ship.”

Petty Officer 1st Class Corey Scott said he asphyxiated the adolescent prisoner in Iraq two years ago after Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher unexpectedly stabbed him.

The recently revived 2nd Fleet is leading the 18-nation Baltic Operations with an eye toward Russia, a former participant in the long-running exercise whose military movements in recent years have put the Baltic region’s former Soviet states on edge.

Chief Petty Officer Adam C. Matthews faced a murder charge in the death of Staff Sgt. Logan Melgar and was wearing a Rambo costume at the time he approached Melgar's widow, according to military documents.

The limpet mines used to attack a Japanese-owned oil tanker near the Strait of Hormuz last week bore "a striking resemblance" to similar mines displayed by Iran, a U.S. Navy explosives expert said Wednesday, stopping short of directly blaming Tehran for the assault.

At first, some Southern California residents wondered if the booming rendition of the national anthem they heard on June 14 paid tribute to flag day. But then, it happened again, and again...

The USS Minneapolis-St. Paul, a steel-hulled combat ship a bit longer than a football field, is designed to be fast and agile enough to locate mines and disarm other threats near the shoreline. It includes a flight deck for helicopters and drones and a bay to launch smaller watercraft.

Senior Chief Petty Officer Shannon Kent was the first female U.S. servicemember killed in Syria since the U.S.-led coalition’s campaign against the Islamic State began there in late 2014.

Navy Secretary Richard Spencer announced Friday that Rear Adm. Shoshana Chatfield will be the next president of the Navy’s senior leader college in Newport, R.I.

Rodney Simeon, a former Alabama State University basketball player, was stopped from entering Mayport Naval Station during the incident by a steel barrier activated by U.S. Navy sentries, according to the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.

The Navy plans to christen its newest littoral combat ship, the USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, during a ceremony Saturday at Fincantieri Marinette Marine in Marinette, Wis.

The material procured under the Department of Defense order will be used to replace worn out nozzles and blades during the repair process, thus extending the life of engines, the department said.

The Maritime Self-Defense Force’s Izumo helicopter carrier has joined the United States’ sole forward-deployed aircraft carrier, the USS Ronald Reagan, in joint military exercises in the disputed South China Sea, the MSDF and U.S. 7th Fleet said in separate statements Wednesday.

The Navy plans to decide by late 2022 how to dispose of the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier and likely will turn to the private sector for help. The former USS Enterprise, now rusted and gutted, sits pier-side at Huntington Ingalls Newport News shipyard, where it was built and launched amid great fanfare more than 50 years ago.

Edwin D. Fragoso, 45, of Freeport, N.Y., pleaded guilty Friday in New York’s Eastern District federal court to one count of conspiracy. He paid nearly $100,000 in bribes to a NEX employee in exchange for tax-free booze and resold the liquor for profit, according to a Justice Department statement.

The United States recently concluded its 25th year of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training, or CARAT, drills with the Royal Thai Navy.

The Navy awarded Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. a $542 million contract to deliver six VH-92A helicopters by 2021 as the first phase in replacing the aging presidential fleet of 19 helicopters.

At a commissioning ceremony Monday morning, Vice President Mike Pence swore in Priebus as an ensign, an entry-level officer. Priebus and his family also met with Trump at the White House after the ceremony.

The Navy plans to replace 6th Fleet’s four destroyers in Europe with newer ones that have upgraded missile defense capabilities, 6th Fleet announced this week.

The senior enlisted sailor serving aboard the fast-attack submarine USS Jefferson City has been relieved as chief of the boat due to misconduct, the Navy said Friday.

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The USS Chancellorsville avoided a near-collision with a Russian Udaloy I class destroyer Friday morning in the Philippine Sea, with the ships coming between 50 to 100 feet of each other, according to a 7th Fleet statement.

U.S. frogmen were among the Normandy war dead honored Thursday during a dedication of a Lone Sailor statue on a plaza overlooking Utah Beach. It was one of several ceremonies in the region commemorating the 75th anniversary of D-Day.

A Navy captain who brought wine, a piggy bank and condoms to a purported sleepover with an adolescent he met at a Naples base library was properly found guilty of attempting to sexually abuse and assault a child, the Navy’s appellate court ruled.

A Navy salvage team on May 21 used a contracted vessel to recover the aircraft, Pacific Fleet spokesman Cmdr. Nate Christensen said in an email to Stars and Stripes Thursday.

The Russian pilot intercepted the Poseidon three times over about three hours and two of the passes were deemed unsafe, the Navy said.

During a ceremony commemorating the battle aboard the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, the 50-star Union Jack was hoisted for the first time since 2002, when it had been replaced by the First Navy Jack in response to the 9/11 attacks.

Sailors could qualify for alternative petty officer first class promotions if they fill recruiting and recruit training billets, under a new Navy incentive program likely expand to other jobs.

As residents grieved after a mass shooting, they also took the first steps toward reclaiming the identity of the city, which is in a region with 75 military installations. They did so with prayers and vigils. And they simply resorted to habit.

The meeting in Brownsville follows the Navy’s plans to prepare an environmental impact statement to evaluate potential environmental impacts associated with the disposal of the decommissioned and defueled USS Enterprise.

White House and Pentagon officials told The Washington Post that lower-level staff had been trying to please the president without high-level directives. The officials, though, confirmed that a member of the White House staff sent a message to military officials in the Pacific asking them to keep the ship out of photos during Trump's visit to the Japanese port of Yokosuka.

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No one doubts that the pilots are seeing something, but psychologists and specialists in aviation medicine say there are plenty of reasonable explanations for such sightings other than extraterrestrial beings. Earthly sources of light reflected by clouds or haze, for example, or optical illusions wrought by fatigue after staring through a cockpit window for hours on end.

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A dust-up over who directed and knew about White House efforts to obscure the USS John S. McCain ahead of President Donald Trump's visit to Japan has raised new questions about whether the military's culture is changing under a president who has challenged institutional norms.

The U.S. Navy’s answer to increased maritime competition with Russia is the re-establishment of its 2nd Fleet, which declared initial operational capability this week, meaning it can start commanding and controlling forces in the Atlantic Ocean.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, has called for a new 30-day review of how the service handles personnel cases involving personal misconduct allegations, including that of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens.

The Navy’s oldest operational ship left Yokosuka Feb. 4 and since then has covered more than 22,000 nautical miles to make port calls.

This year’s largest annual, multilateral disaster-response and preparedness mission in the Indo-Pacific region featured two expeditionary fast-transport ships for the first time, the Fall River and USNS Brunswick.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon returned to port in Pearl Harbor on Friday after a seven-month deployment that covered 54,000 nautical miles and included a freedom-of-navigation operation in the South China Sea.

The White House asked the Navy to move the destroyer named after the late Sen. John S. McCain “out of sight” during President Donald Trump’s visit this week to the home of the 7th Fleet in Japan, according to media reports.

The service is also adding a rowing machine option for the cardio portion of the test.

A newly released study between Norfolk, Virginia Beach and the Navy recommends sweeping changes that would reshape areas from Ocean View to Sandbridge to prevent floodwaters from cutting off military bases.

The Navy will “continue to work” with President Donald Trump regarding his repeated calls to abandon a catapult system being developed for Gerald R. Ford-class carriers, the Navy’s highest-ranking officer said Tuesday.