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This post has been updated to correct the deployment date for USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). After three months in the Middle East ...
In November 1942, thirteen U.S. warships, none larger than a heavy cruiser, charged into the Pacific night to confront a ...
A famed Japanese destroyer lost in 1942 has been found severed on the South Pacific seafloor — the result of a fantastic David-vs.-Goliath sea battle that remains the stuff of legend for the U.S. Navy ...
The ship departed Mayport back in November, covering more than 60,000 nautical miles and making 18 port visits during its time at sea. This marks the ship’s fifth deployment in just three years—a ...
A new DDG 129 Aegis Guided Missile Destroyer was just christened. The USS Jeremiah Denton was named after United States ...
The Navy continues to be under immense pressure to hasten the process of shipbuilding and modernize methods of repair and ...
A family who fled Vietnam 50 years ago, landed in Guam, then went to Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center in Arkansas, and a month later wound up in Tahlequah, ...
The future USS Jeremiah Denton is named after the late U.S. senator from Alabama, who before his election to the upper chamber, served in the Vietnam War and was held in captivity for years as a ...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the decision was “taking the politics out of ship naming.” The vessel will be renamed for Oscar V. Peterson, a Medal of Honor recipient.
General Dynamics Gets $1.85B U.S. Navy Contract Modification for Long Lead Time Material and Preliminary Construction Efforts Associated With Virginia-Class Block VI Submarines ...
Dan Murphy’s life changed forever 20 years ago. His son — 29-year-old Navy SEAL Lt. Michael Murphy — made the ultimate sacrifice on a compromised mission in Afghanistan in hopes of giving ...
We need a bigger Navy — and delaying orders for warships is counterproductive. Shipyards exist to build ships, but without orders, nothing happens. It’s time for Congress to change that.