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.
'To me, it didn’t matter whether those were Chinese, Korean, Mongolian, whatever — they were the enemy.'
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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