USS Oscar Austin crew awarded combat action ribbon for Red Sea actions
The destroyer provided combat support to the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group in the Red Sea.
By Riley Ceder
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USS Harry S. Truman returns to US after months of battling Houthis
The Truman saw continuous action for over 50 days, conducting precision airstrikes and launching missiles while under constant fire from Houthi militants.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher
Renewed push to award gold medal to World War II Ghost Army
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators are renewing an effort to award a Congressional Gold Medal to the Ghost Army of World War II.
Prosecutors in Navy war crimes case accused of spying on defense attorneys and Navy Times reporter
Military prosecutors in the case of a Navy SEAL charged with killing an Islamic State prisoner in Iraq in 2017 installed tracking software in emails sent to defense lawyers and a reporter in an apparent attempt to discover who was leaking information to the media, according to lawyers who told The Associated Press that they received the corrupted messages.
Op-Ed: Speak up for trans sailors, sound off for justice
"The policy makes service impossible for those who could perform their duties with appropriate care or after transitioning. This is not enforcing a standard. This is exclusion masked by a facade of policy."
By Midshipman 2nd Class Benjamin Chiacchia
Baseball field dedicated to 98-year-old US WWII veteran as Germans recall Berlin Airlift
Berliners on Sunday celebrated the 70th anniversary of the day the Soviets lifted their blockade strangling West Berlin in the post-World War II years with a big party at the former Tempelhof airport in the German capital.
Carrier CMC who urged crew to ‘clap like we’re at a strip club’ resigns
His bawdy reference overshadowed a visit from the vice president as news outlets seized on his gaffe.
By Navy Times staff
NORTHCOM: Arctic now America’s ‘first line of defense’
New business opportunities in the Arctic also invite new strategic competition, U.S. defense officials say.
By Kyle Rempfer
Pols make Portsmouth Naval Shipyard pitch to SECNAV
It was a bipartisan push to preserve shipyard construction programs instead of diverting money to Trump's border wall project.
Trial by fire in the Coral Sea
The Battle of the Coral Sea was a tactical defeat for the U.S. Navy that also proved to be a significant strategic victory.
By Joseph H. Alexander, Military History Quarterly
Pentagon: Flattop to join Chinese fleet this year
The report to Congress comes amid increased emphasis by the Pentagon on adjusting to what it sees as an emerging challenge from China not only in naval strength but also in cyber capabilities, space power and missile technologies.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press