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The Navy is working on a transformational ‘Iron Man’ dive suit
The form-fitting, atmospheric dive suit is composed of rotating and flexible joints, and aims to improve diver safety, flexibility and range.
By Diana Stancy
Calls to loved ones reveal rough conditions before sinking
Coast Guard rescuers saved two mariners but couldn't locate the others and suspended the 20-hour search on Wednesday.
US Coast Guard rescues man off Royal Canadian Navy vessel
Officials say that the condition of the patient is unknown.
By Navy Times staff
John Paul Jones: Sea power visionary
John Paul Jones pioneered the idea of global sea power a century before the rise of the modern U.S. Navy.
By Joseph F. Callo, Military History Magazine
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
Presidents’ Day pause: How ‘Uncle Sam’s Web-feet’ helped swing an election for Abe Lincoln
The U.S. Navy's triumph at Mobile Bay, combined with victorious Federal ground campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, helped reelect Abraham Lincoln and doomed the Confederacy to defeat.
By Gerald D. Swick, Civil War Times Magazine
Coast Guard CWO killed in Alaska crane accident
Local emergency medical services personnel performed CPR on CWO2 Michael Kozloski and rushed him to South Peninsula Hospital, where he was pronounced dead on Thursday, Coast Guard officials say.
By Carl Prine
Investigators probing mysterious death of Coast Guard seaman in Alaska
Authorities are awaiting an autopsy report from the State Medical Examiner Office.
By Carl Prine
Review praises ‘Beyond the Call: Three Women on the Front Lines in Afghanistan’
The Americans profiled — Marine Sgt. Sheena Adams and a pair of Army officers, Maj. Maria Rodriguez and Capt. Johanna Smoke — wanted to make a difference in America’s mission in Afghanistan.
By Jerri Bell, Veterans Writing Project
The V-280 tilt-rotor aircraft could change the way air assault troops operate
Bell's V-280 Valor tilt-rotor aircraft should be a welcome addition to units conducting fast rope insertions, rappelling, or any other air assault operation.
By Kyle Rempfer