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Navy doctor named 'America's Hottest Dad'When a website solicited nominations for a national 'Hot Dads' contest, it got a rack of entries — about 1,500 — showing shirtless men displaying their abs while holding their toddlers, soldiers preening in their uniforms and random 30-somethings mugging
Editorial: A call for common senseInspectors across the Navy and Marine Corps are walking through workspaces, galleys, berthing spaces and even the heads, looking for anything that might be deemed 'offensive' and inappropriate.
Navy emphasizes talking with chaplains is confidentialRegardless of personal faith, any sailor, Marine or Coast Guardsmen can talk to a chaplain about problems and know the discussion will remain confidential.
New Navy office charged with making prevention programs effectiveHazing, sexual assault, suicide, alcohol abuse, stress. There's Navy training to reduce all of these fleet problems. Many sailors would argue there's too much training — too often accompanied by sleep-inducing slides.
Sailors stepped up, saved lives after Okla. tornadoes hitGlenn Erkenbrack was behind the wheel of his pickup, heading home to South Oklahoma City from his job with the Navy's Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 3 at nearby Tinker Air Force Base.
Editorial: Misogyny and shameThe military's sex-assault epidemic is a fixation in Washington, with lawmakers and the brass at odds over how to confront the cultural mindset that condones misogyny and makes sport of harassment.
Tailhook's whistle-blower talks sexual assaultIn the fall of 1991, hundreds of naval aviators mobbed the Las Vegas Hilton for the annual Tailhook convention, a gathering of the Navy's entire aviation community.
Congress wants uniform reform, as Navy mulls future of NWUCamo patterns and combat uniforms across the services have gotten so out of control and expensive that members of Congress are renewing the fight for a single 'purple' combat uniform to be worn across the military.
Editorial: Camo envy is big wasteThe services have spent billions over the past decade to develop and field at least 10 camouflage designs for the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines.
Sailor shatters board-breaking record during skydiving jumpCharity events often include 5-kilometer runs, bake sales or concerts. They do not include jumping out of an airplane at 16,000 feet and setting an unofficial world record by breaking a dozen pine boards with one's fist.
Editorial: Smart call to kill PTSEarly this year we previewed new re-enlistment rules that were on the way to sailors. It meant big changes for Perform to Serve, the much-maligned system that sailors and commanding officers alike describe as confusing and stressful.
Editorial: Misguided sex lawA May 23 split ruling by the Court of Military Appeals for the Armed Forces raises questions about the reach and application of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and points again to the need to align the UCMJ with current legal and social norms.
Naples is latest to mandate on-base housingMost sailors with dependents heading to Naples, Italy, will receive mandatory on-base housing assignments, a policy designed to cut high vacancy rates that's already in place in Japan and could be implemented elsewhere.
Tricare West patients still lack care despite waiversMedical providers in Tricare's West Region continue to be reluctant to accept military patients because UnitedHealthcare, the new regional contract manager, is slow to reimburse claims, say patients and physicians in the 21-state area.
Hobbies as therapy: Fly-fishing, knitting and more can ease anxiety, PTSDArmy Capt. David Folkerts dodged death in 2005 when a roadside bomb exploded a few feet from him while on a foot patrol in Taji, Iraq.
LCS matures, new missile comingWhile the first-in-class Freedom is beginning operations in the Western Pacific, the other littoral combat ships are continuing with testing and development
SWOs won't choose 360-review panel under new planIt's commonplace for officers undergoing a 360-degree review to pick the sailors who'll gauge their performance — an approach many believe leaves little room for the kind of eye-opening opinions they need most to hear.
A sequestration sequel: DoD orders military to brace for bigger '14 cutThere is growing fear that the pain of sequestration, which takes a stronger toll each day on service members and families, could be repeated in 2014.
Benefits battle: House panel hits back against lower pay raise, Tricare hikesA House panel has rejected the Obama administration's attempt to cap the 2014 military pay raise and to make military retirees pay more for lifetime medical care, deciding it wants to protect current and former service members from the pain of budget cuts
Slumber hearty: Sleeping on the ground doesn't have to suckSleeping outside sucks far less than it did in the '90s.
Advancement rules ignored: 67,000 shouldn't have moved upNavy rules require commands to hold formal leadership training and document that training in fleet databases before they are allowed to frock or advance any sailors to the next paygrade.
DoD adviser sees shrinking military, 'broken' CongressArnold Punaro is a fixture in Washington's defense circles, a rare bridge between the military and civilian worlds who is simultaneously a consummate insider and ardent critic of the status quo.
AF female body bearer talks teamwork, days at ArlingtonThis isn't a job that's required or asked of you. It's a job you want. It requires stoicism amid the sounds and sights of grief. Because for many families, the U.S. Honor Guard is the last military representation they see.
Chances for senior chief soarThe chance to put on a senior chief's star has increased to 13.62 percent, making this year the best shot at making E-8 since at least 1997, but probably longer.
Bad behavior prompts review of 7th Fleet sailor recordsAfter yet another string of embarrassing incidents, leaders in 7th Fleet are cracking down on bad sailor behavior.
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