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Resting place of sunken World War II carrier identified 78 years later
The USS Ommaney Bay came under attack on January 4, 1945, when it was struck by a Japanese kamikaze pilot.
Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on another world
Hundreds of millions tuned in to radios or watched the grainy black-and-white images on TV as Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, in one of humanity's most glorious technological achievements.
Op-Ed: the Merchant Marine, America’s fourth arm of defense
Throughout our nation’s history, the Navy and merchant marine served as complementary forces.
By Salvatore R. Mercogliano
The SWAN song of Marine veteran Anuradha Bhagwati
A review of Marine veteran Anuradha Bhagwati's lacerating memoir about life in the Corps for a bisexual woman of color.
By Jerri Bell, O-Dark-Thirty
Intoxicated Russian sailors rescued from deserted island after getting lost on boat ride
The men had fortunately not yet resorted to cannibalism.
By Jon Simkins
Case ends against elderly Navy vet who ran over a pedestrian on San Diego base
Jeremiah Sullivan III, a prominent criminal defense attorney who specializes in courts-martial, took up James Brammer’s case pro bono.
By Navy Times staff
‘Speed forward, fight close and hit hard’ — How China won the Battle of the Paracel Islands
With U.S. troops gone from South Vietnam, China made a move at sea in 1974. The ripple effects are still being felt.
By Carl O. Shuster, Vietnam Magazine
Senior officer retirement boards make cuts
The Navy panels were looking to weed out officers with declining performance or misconduct on their books.
By Mark D. Faram
Here’s how the Navy is revolutionizing officer career paths
Testifying before the Senate Armed Service Committee’s Personnel Subcommittee, the Navy’s chief of personnel, Vice Adm. Bob Burke, updated lawmakers on how far and fast the sea service has come in revamping the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act, the landmark 1980 legislation that’s come to be known as simply “DOPMA.”
By Mark D. Faram
Back when Navy officers settled beefs by shooting each other — and Marines
“Oh Lord, I am a dead man.”
By Janine Peterson, Military History Magazine
The 19 things you need to watch in 2019
More money and more personnel but also new challenges from rising rivals in the Western Pacific, Europe and the Persian Gulf. More changes to your leadership at the Pentagon. And more innovations that promise to transform the ways your Navy recruits, trains and retains its sailors.
By Geoff Ziezulewicz, Mark D. Faram, Natalie Gross, Tara Copp, AP, Leo Shane III, Carl Prine and David Larter, Defense News