Navy SEAL candidates participate in Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training in 2018. US Navy Photo
Navy lawyers are reviewing an investigation to determine potential punishments for sailors who may bear responsibility for the death of a SEAL candidate in 2022, USNI News has learned. Read More
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
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
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
A sailor undergoes testing at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division in 2021. US Navy Photo
NAVAL AIR STATION PATUXENT RIVER, Md. – What aircraft a Navy pilot could fly might come down to pure genetics – the range of motion of their thumb or how high their eye-line is when they sit. Read More
The May 16, 2023 keel laying for the future USS Louis H. Wilson, Jr. (DDG-126). BIW Photo
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works laid the first keel of its Flight III Arleigh-Burke guided-missile destroyer, the company announced. Read More
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This post has been updated with additional information on the Bethesda-class (EMS-1).
The Navy’s new class of expeditionary medical ships will be named after a Maryland military medical center, Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro announced Friday. Read More
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
Phoenix Air Learjet 35 approaching Naval Air Station North Island in 2009. Photo via Wikipedia
The Coast Guard suspended its search for three people who were aboard a Phoenix Air Learjet that crashed near San Clemente Island, Calif., the service announced Thursday. Read More
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
