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US locks down embassy in Afghanistan amid COVID-19 surge
Staffing levels at the Kabul embassy have already been significantly reduced pending the completion of the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO forces from Afghanistan.
Why another US destroyer is prowling the Black Sea
The patrol comes amid rising tensions with Russia across the region.
By Mark D. Faram
Fort Gordon sailors charged with raping, sodomizing 18-year-old woman at party
All three sailors are being detained in the Richmond County Jail.
By Jon Simkins
Open up and say ‘ahh’: Trump getting annual medical exam
A Navy veteran leads a medical team evaluating the health of the POTUS with "incredibly good genes."
Navy sends second message to Moscow this month
The U.S. Navy has sent another warship to the Black Sea.
By Mark D. Faram
Reform panel warns Congress to overhaul Pentagon acquisitions, or lose technological edge
Pentagon acquisitions need an overhaul to work with companies outside the Capital Beltway, according to an influential advisory group established by Congress.
By Joe Gould
A warship doomed by ‘confusion, indecision, and ultimately panic’ on the bridge
A secret Navy report looks at the ways leaders could have averted the deadly destroyer Fitzgerald collision.
The US Navy is back in the Black Sea, sending a message to Moscow
It's the first U.S. warship to enter the Black Sea since the Russians seized three Ukrainian boats in the Kerch Strait in November.
By Mark D. Faram
Navy releases new details on retired admiral and former Trump nominee’s ‘Fat Leonard’ censure
Retired Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery had been nominated by the White House for a plum U.S. Agency for International Development gig earlier this year.
The new Navy? Job performance to trump community service, collateral duties
Prodded by a mandate from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to expunge from Navy training anything that fails to make the fleet more lethal and agile as the United States enters a new era of great power competition, leaders are moving to make sure every sailor pulls his or her weight, with a premium placed on job performance.
By Mark D. Faram
Special tactics airman killed in Afghanistan followed in family’s footsteps
Aaron Elchin last spoke to his brother, Air Force Staff Sgt. Dylan J. Elchin, Saturday via Facetime from Afghanistan.
By Andrew Goldstein, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette via the AP