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A U.S. sailor was sentenced to 27 months in prison and ordered to pay a $5,500 fine for passing U.S. military secrets to China in exchange for bribes, the Justice Department announced Tuesday.

Threats to shipping continued to escalate on Thursday, as an explosive-packed drone boat launched by the Houthi terrorists of Yemen exploded in the Red Sea, while a group of as-yet unidentified but possibly Somali pirates stormed a Liberian-flagged merchant ship near the coast of Somalia.

Danish shipping giant Maersk suspended Red Sea shipping again on Sunday, calling a 48-hour pause to reconsider its plans for resuming Suez Canal routes after the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen attacked one of its container ships.

Ongoing tumult across the Red Sea driven by Houthi terrorist attacks spurred global shipping giant Maersk on Sunday to announce it was suspending the passage of vessels through the area for 48 hours.

The Biden administration’s ballyhooed naval coalition scrapped together for the purpose of deterring missile and drone attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Yemen is failing.

The effort by shipping companies to reroute traffic from the Red Sea around the Cape of Good Hope, thus avoiding drone and missile attacks by the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists of Yemen, is running into major logistical hurdles because African ports are not ready to accommodate the surge of massive container ships and tankers.

Mara Macie — whose husband is being investigated by the Navy for questioning the COVID-19 vaccine’s effect on troop health — is running as a Republican candidate for a U.S. House seat in 2024 in Florida’s 5th district, in part because her husband is being silenced.

NFL legend Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski helped the USSA gift two cars to veterans ahead of Saturday’s Army-Navy football game.

A U.S. Navy warship and multiple commercial vessels came under attack Sunday in the Red Sea,  the Pentagon said, marking a potential escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to the Israel-Hamas war.

Captain Hung Cao detailed his family’s escape from communist Vietnam and his “calling” to run for U.S. Senate in an exclusive interview.

A United States Navy destroyer, along with ships from allied nations, rescued an Israeli-owned ship from armed attackers on a small boat Sunday, according to U.S. Central Command.

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Monday published a gloomy report warning that the U.S. Navy is losing its competitive edge in submarine warfare to China, which went from creaky, noisy, slow-moving subs to ultra-quiet nuclear-powered attack vehicles in under 20 years.

A U.S. Navy plane with nine crew aboard overshot a runway Monday at a military base in Hawaii and ended up in the shallow waters of Kaneohe Bay. No injuries have been reported, authorities said.

A troupe of female veterans dressed from head-to-toe in World War II-era pin-up costumes brightened Veterans Day for patients at the West Los Angeles Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center.

The crew of the USS Carney shot down three land attack cruise missiles and several drones launched by Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen.

The U.S. Navy will begin the random drug testing of SEALs for the use of steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs starting November 1.

A pair of brothers now share an even deeper bond after one stepped in to ensure the other got a life-saving procedure.

Former President Donald Trump promised to deploy the United State Navy to impose a “full Fentanyl Blockade on the waters of our region,” during a campaign stop in Dubuque, Iowa, on Wednesday. 

A veteran and his family got a massive surprise recently from community members who wanted to thank him for his service.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization, on Saturday released footage of its speedboats confronting two U.S. Navy ships in the Strait of Hormuz on August 17.

Chinese state media this week gleefully mocked President Joe Biden for bungling the response to Hawaii’s wildfires. Editorials pushed the Communist Party narrative that only authoritarian governments can handle disasters of such magnitude, and taunted the U.S. for prioritizing military spending over disaster response.

The U.S. signaled it is bolstering its military presence in the Middle East on Thursday by ordering additional warships and marines to the area to counter Iran’s growing threats to commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. The USS Bataan

USS Canberra (LCS 30) has arrived in Sydney, Australia, ahead of its one-of-a-kind commissioning on Saturday which will see the Independence-class vessel become the first U.S. warship to enter service while in a foreign port.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol vowed that any North Korean nuclear attack would be “the end of that regime” on Wednesday while touring the USS Kentucky, an Ohio-class nuclear ballistic missile submarine currently stationed in the southern port city of Busan.

A top secret U.S. Navy acoustic detection system may have heard the Titan tourist sub’s implosion hours after the vessel began its descent to the Titanic wreck on Sunday, according to the Wall Street Journal.

China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday claimed a Chinese spy plane was able to monitor a joint naval exercise between the United States, France, Canada, and Japan and gather valuable intelligence on the ships involved, including two American aircraft carriers, USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan.

Indonesia on Monday hosted the first day of the unusual “Komodo” joint naval exercise, in which ships from the rival American, Chinese, and Russian navies practice their responses to humanitarian disasters together. 

The Navy’s Twitter account changed its cover photo temporarily to a rainbow-colored graphic to kick off the beginning of Pride Month.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday announced that it quietly withdrew from a U.S.-led security coalition called the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) two months ago.

A study in China’s Journal of Test and Measurement Technology concluded, citing a series of software simulations, that the communist nation’s hypersonic missile technology could destroy the formidable USS Gerald R. Ford carrier fleet by evading the ships’ defense systems, the South China Morning Post reported on Tuesday.

The Navy’s Office of Naval Intelligence hosted an event event last week on inclusive language to “reflect the existence of transgender, nonbinary, and intersex individuals.”

A retired U.S Navy commander who serves on the Naval Academy’s Alumni Association Board of Trustees defended the Navy enlisting a drag queen influencer to appeal to recruits.

Moore slammed Biden’s recent ordering of 1,500 troops to the border in advance of an expected surge when Title 42 expires in just days.

The Navy was made aware back in March of racy photos posted on the Instagram account of one its digital ambassadors who is a drag queen.

Rob O’Neill, the Navy SEAL who killed al Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden, blasted the Navy for enlisting a drag queen influencer as a “digital ambassador” to help recruit.

The U.S. Navy currently suffers from failures in mission readiness that include maintenance backlogs, decaying shipyards, crew fatigue, and supply chain bottlenecks, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) set out in a report Tuesday.