Under the new guidelines, troops granted a medical waiver must receive treatment and see the medical condition resolved within a year or face separation.
A sailor at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Detachment-San Diego was arrested Aug. 15 and charged with willful harm to a child, infliction of great bodily injury and torture.
The guided missile destroyer Fitzgerald collided with a merchant vessel just southwest of Yokosuka, Japan at around 2:30 a.m. local time Friday, according to a Navy release.
Navy pilots have reported 461 physiological episodes in F/A-18 fight jets and T-45 trainer aircraft since May of 2010 — an average of more than one every six days. Yet the recent completion of a 30-day review led by Adm. Scott Swift, commander of the Pacific Fleet, revealed few answers.
A Navy SEAL team member who plummeted to death Sunday after his parachute failed to open during a Fleet Week demonstration has been identified as 27-year-old Remington J. Peters of Colorado.