Heather Mongilio

About Heather Mongilio

Heather Mongilio is a reporter with USNI News. She has a master’s degree in science journalism and has covered local courts, crime, health, military affairs and the Naval Academy.


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Joint Task Force - Red Hill Aims To Begin Defueling as Early as October, Per New Plan

Joint Task Force – Red Hill Aims To Begin Defueling as Early as October, Per New Plan

A contractor at the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility (RHBFSF) conducts rewiring repairs in Halawa, Hawaii, May 9, 2023. US Navy Photo

This story has been updated to correct that it is the Department of Defense that submitted the second supplement to the Red Hill defueling plan and to add a statement from the Joint Task Force – Red Hill.

Joint Task Force – Red Hill will hold two open houses this week for the Hawaii service member community and residents as it works to gain back trust ahead of its planned defueling of the Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility, now slated to begin in October. Read More

Investigation into Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center Finds No Causal Links Between Sailor Deaths

Investigation into Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center Finds No Causal Links Between Sailor Deaths

The Navy’s oldest floating dry-dock, the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center’s (MARMC) Dynamic, (AFDL 6), prepares to be towed from Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story (JEBLCFS) to Lyons Shipyard Inc., in Norfolk, Virginia for a scheduled Docking Planned Maintenance Availability in 2021. US Navy Photo

A Navy investigation into four sailors assigned to the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center who died by suicide found no causal links. Read More

Destroyer USS John Finn CO Removed From Command

Destroyer USS John Finn CO Removed From Command

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John Finn (DDG 113) arrives at Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka (CFAY) on March 4, 2023. U.S. Navy Photo

The U.S. 7th Fleet commander relieved USS John Finn (DDG-113) commander Cmdr. Angela Gonzales Friday, the Navy announced Saturday. Read More

U.S. 5th Fleet Increasing Patrols in Strait of Hormuz in Response to Iranian Seizures

U.S. 5th Fleet Increasing Patrols in Strait of Hormuz in Response to Iranian Seizures

A screenshot of a video showing fast-attack craft from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy swarming Panama-flagged oil tanker Niovi as it transits the Strait of Hormuz, May 3, 2023. US Navy Photo

U.S. 5th Fleet, along with other allies in the Middle East, will increase the number of ships and aircraft patrolling the Strait of Hormuz in response to Iran’s recent seizures of merchant vessels, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command announced Friday. Read More

U.S., Spain Agree to Host Two More Warships in Rota

U.S., Spain Agree to Host Two More Warships in Rota

Seaman Dyson Smith mans the rails aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) as the ship departs Naval Station Rota, Spain, April 22, 2023. US Navy Photo

Spain and the United States took the next steps in increasing the number of U.S. guided-missile destroyers based in Rota. Read More