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Doggone deployment: Navy carriers em-‘bark’ mental health pups
The Navy is testing out a program to embark therapy dogs aboard aircraft carriers and amphibious assault ships.
By Diana Stancy
Norfolk sailor dies of COVID-19 complications
The sailor is the third active-duty sailor to die this month after contracting the novel coronavirus
Alfred Thayer Mahan and his vain quest to keep ships straight
He was one of the world's greatest maritime strategists. A gifted seaman? Not so much.
By Donald Lankiewicz, American History Magazine
Sayonara, Japan! Wasp bound for Norfolk
Navy Personnel Command announced in early 2018 that Wasp was expected to return to Virginia around Sept. 20.
By Navy Times staff
Torpedo Junction: The South Pacific’s brutal underwater war
To beat back or blunt the first Allied offensive in the Pacific, Japan needed to cut the supply lifeline. They failed.
By John Prados, HistoryNet.com
The Operation Dragoon drama of Douglas Fairbanks
Famed for his heroics on screen, a Hollywood idol topped himself at war as leader of a band of seaborne deception specialists
By David Sears, World War II Magazine
Warship returns to Rota
The warship traveled roughly 20,000 miles after leaving the Spanish port on March 23 on its sixth patrol since joining the 6th Fleet in 2015.
By Mark D. Faram
Relearning the lessons of BALTOPS
On the doorstep of a resurgent Russia, a force of 8,600 personnel from 18 nations on board 50 ships and two submarines practices war at sea.
By Mark D. Faram
Will your command create a fab shoulder patch?
Commands are starting to authorize alternative unit shoulder patches for their Type III Navy Working Uniforms.
By Mark D. Faram
Coast Guard picks homeport for new icebreaker fleet
The Polar Security-class vessels will be designed to conduct search and rescue, maritime law enforcement, environmental response and national defense patrols missions in areas often covered in heavy ice.
By Navy Times staff
Trump, Shanahan distance themselves from McCain controversy
The Pentagon’s acting chief, Patrick Shanahan, ordered his chief of staff to investigate the flap.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press