HASC Mark Would Give Sailors Under E-6 Basic Housing Allowance
Sailors under the E-6 pay grade may be eligible for a basic housing allowance under House authorizers’ draft defense policy bill for Fiscal Year 2025.…
Report: U.S. and New Zealand Forming Closer Ties
From the March, 8 Congressional Research Service report titled, New Zealand: U.S. Security Cooperation and the U.S. Rebalancing to Asia…
USS Miami Arsonist Gets 17 years in Prison
The admitted arsonist that set fire to the nuclear attack submarine USS Miami was sentenced to 17 years in federal…
Senate Wants a ‘USS Ted Stevens’
The U.S. Senate has included a provision in the latest appropriations bill to name a warship after Ted Stevens, the…
CRS Report: Navy Shipbuilding Outlook
Shipbuilding and related programs that could experience execution problems under a year-long CR include the CVN-78 aircraft carrier program, the…
USS Miami Arsonist Could Get 20 Years in Prison
The worker who caused an estimated $450 million in damages to the USS Miami (SSN-755) in May in a confessed…
Adm. Bill Gortney’s Budget Cut Message to Fleet
The following is a March, 6 message from Adm. Bill Gortney, commander U.S. Fleet Forces, to the Fleet on implementation…
Budget Cuts Could Pull Navy Out of The War on Drugs
U.S. Navy frigates will stop patrolling for drug runners by April because of forced sequestration budget cuts, a Navy spokesman…
Secretary Ray Mabus’ Sequestration Message
DTG 022300Z Mar 13 FM SECNAV WASHINGTON DC TO ALNAV INFO SECNAV WASHINGTON DC CMC WASHINGTON DC CNO WASHINGTON DC…
Camouflaged Ships: An Illustrated History
Friday’s deployment of USS Freedom (LCS 1) will revive a tradition of camouflaging warships. Outside of smaller patrol boats, the…
Former CNO Roughead: Navy Needs Acquisition Reform
Impending U.S. Navy budget cuts will create a “fundamentally different navy” that is less able to preform its missions, retired…