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A Navy service member is being cited for abuse of power after reportedly retaliating against a subordinate after the individual reported an error, a Defense Department Office of Inspector General investigation found. The IG report, released on Oct. 15, showed that the events that triggered the reprisal began on Oct. 28, 2020, when an employee of the Navy Cyber Warfare Development Group informed th...[Read More]

USS Chosin (CG 65) demonstrated underway reloading the ship’s MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS).

The Trump administration is taking the unusual step of deploying a Navy warship off the waters of the U.S. as part of its broader crackdown on security and migration along the Mexico border.

A U.S. Navy administrative order released Thursday outlined a new policy that forces transgender service members to separate from the military. The guidelines, intended for military personnel who the order states “have a current diagnosis or history of, or exhibit symptoms consistent with, gender dysphoria,” stated that the Navy will revoke exceptions that allowed troops to follow the standards of...[Read More]

Citing a need to send a strong message of deterrence to other police officers, and noting the racial aspects of a case involving a White officer and Black victim, Judge John Houston sentenced Jonathan LaRoche to 15 months in federal prison.

Navy officials “lacked sufficient understanding” of the risks of maintaining massive fuel storage tanks on top of a drinking water well at Pearl Harbor where spilled jet fuel poisoned more than 6,000 people in 2021, a U.S. military watchdog said.

A specialized U.S. Navy dive crew and a unit of Polish Armed Forces engineers were traveling Friday to a training site in Lithuania to help with the recovery of four U.S. soldiers who were first reported missing Tuesday. U.S. and Lithuanian personnel were still working Friday to access the site where the soldiers’ M88 Hercules armored vehicle was found 15 feet underwater Wednesday in a swamp on a ...[Read More]

Vice Adm. Rick Cheeseman decided to stop the boards of inquiry for Capt. Brad Geary, the commander of the Navy SEAL training program, and Cmdr. Erik Ramey, the school’s top doctor, at the time of Kyle Mullen’s death.

Fourteen years after the Navy began integrating women into submarine crews, the population of enlisted women and officers in subs continues to grow steadily year-over-year — and the service projects it will name the first female submarine commanding officer by 2028. That’s according to a briefing presented by Lt. Victoria Parrish, the Navy’s Women in Submarines coordinator at Submarine Force Atlan...[Read More]

The Navy is keeping three cruisers in service for three additional years each – just after extending the service life for 12 destroyers. The service announced Monday that the Gettysburg, Chosin, and Cape St. George will now remain in service up until fiscal year 2029, rather than 2026. These cruisers have received modernization updates including “extensive hull,” mechanical and engineering, and co...[Read More]

The U.S. Navy located the wreckage of a fighter jet that crashed in Washington state during a routine training flight in mountainous terrain. The two crew members onboard remain missing.