The hurt crew member had suffered injuries from a hot fuel oil spill.
Five of the injured troops were transported to a civilian hospital, with four released the next day, the Navy said.
The amphibious assault ship had to return to port a week after it deployed.
The Navy will honor the Marines and sailors who served in Afghanistan with the name of the next America-class amphibious ship.
One lawmaker called Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro’s answers to recruiting questions “a lot of hot air.”
A bipartisan group of 120 lawmakers asks defense appropriators to ignore the Navy budget proposal and procure two Virginia-class attack submarines.
It's the second fleet-wide stand-down of the Navy's trainer aircraft fleet since 2022.
The aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower has been operating in the Middle Eastern waters of U.S. Central Command since November.
The Navy will use the T-54A aircraft to train aviators flying the P-8A Poseidon, E-2D Hawkeye and C-130 Hercules.
The move is a nod to the near-daily battles that Navy destroyers have fought with Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen since October.
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