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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 confirmed on Wednesday that it used a drag queen influencer as one of its “Digital Ambassadors.”

A stop-and-board operation by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard Corps. helped it seize a Panamanian-flagged oil tanker in the strategic Strait of Hormuz on Wednesday.

Iranian naval officials claimed on Thursday that they had successfully intercepted and harassed an American nuclear-powered submarine, a claim the U.S. Navy denied on the grounds that no such submarine was in the region.

Iran’s president on Tuesday used the country’s annual Army Day to repeat blood curdling threats to destroy Israel while adding for good measure a demand the U.S. exit the Middle East immediately.

A U.S. Navy warship sailed through the contested waters separating Taiwan and mainland China on Sunday just days after Beijing concluded week-long war games around the self-ruled, independent island.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned Tuesday in an op-ed that China is on a “fast track” to become the world’s dominant naval power if the United States does not spend more on ship building.

The Office of Naval Intelligence recently sent its staff a reminder to “recognize” transgender or transitioning co-workers and treat them with “dignity and respect,” according to an email obtained by Breitbart News.

The Chinese military claimed on Thursday that it monitored and “warned off” an American warship, the guided missile destroyer USS Milius, after it “illegally entered” waters claimed by China around the Paracel Islands. 

Officials with the United States Navy have renamed two ships whose names have ties to the Confederacy.

Dubai – A British warship intercepted a boat smuggling Iranian weapons, including anti-tank missiles, off the coast of Oman in a joint operation with US forces last week, officials said Thursday.

The U.S. Navy announced Thursday it is granting sailors a “one-time reset” of past physical fitness assessment (PFA) failures in hopes of improving retention, while the Department of Defense (DOD) revealed taxpayer dollars will be used to pay for servicemembers’ abortion travel fees. 

The Pentagon is considering sending illicit weapons intercepted from Iran to Ukraine, according to a defense official.

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps began conducting “integrated expeditionary strike force operations” in the South China Sea on Saturday, five days after a Chinese ship fired a military-grade laser at an unarmed Philippine supply ship, temporarily blinding its crew.

The U.S. Navy quietly added more women to its Super Bowl flyover team line-up after criticism it did not have enough of them, according to a report.

Piece by piece the scattered elements of the downed Chinese spy balloon emerged from the ocean depths Tuesday, with U.S. Navy divers using sophisticated reconnaissance drones dubbed the Kingfish and the Swordfish to hasten the job.

The U.S. Navy is working to recover remains of a Chinese high-altitude surveillance balloon after it was shot down over the weekend by an Air Force F-22 fighter jet.

There is growing worry in Washington that endless weapons support to Ukraine is hurting the U.S.’s ability to deter China from invading Taiwan and win if a conflict with China did break out.

The U.S. Navy intercepted an Iranian fishing vessel in the Gulf of Oman carrying 2,000 AK-47 “assault rifles” bound for Yemen on Friday.

The commanding officer of Navy SEAL Team 1, was discovered dead in his residence in San Diego County on Monday, according to Navy officials.

Two U.S. Navy warships narrowly avoided collision earlier this week in the San Diego Bay, as seen in a video captured by a public web camera.

Sen. Mark Kelly’s (D-AZ) campaign has paid tens of thousands of dollars for plane rentals to an Arizona-based company that has been awarded lucrative contracts from the Department of Defense (DOD), including one funded contract by legislation Kelly voted for. 

The Taiwanese Defense Ministry delivered a report to the legislature on Thursday that said China’s belligerent military exercises around the island included “combat drills to carry out simulated attacks on U.S. ships that enter into the first island chain.”

A pair of U.S. warships sailed through the flashpoint Taiwan Strait on Sunday in the first such transit since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s surprise visit to Taiwan earlier month.

Trump Jr. triggered the left by saying Navy SEAL friends tell him they spend more time on diversity training than shooting.

Iran has “immense naval power” that enables it to project force into the contested waters of the Strait of Hormuz and beyond. That is the unalloyed warning from the commander in chief of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami, to both the U.S. Navy and the “old fox” British Royal Navy.

A man named Bud Clauson celebrated a huge milestone on Sunday after living through some of the most significant moments in history.

The iconic U.S. Navy Blue Angels selected a female pilot for the first time in the 76-year history of the flight demonstration squadron.

Michael Franken, a retired Navy admiral and the Democrat nominee for U.S. Senate in Iowa, has come under fire for saying that he “did not serve” his nation for critics of President Joe Biden. 

The launch of China’s third aircraft carrier on June 17 was an expected – actually slightly delayed, thanks to coronavirus lockdowns – step toward the aggressive Communist power challenging the ability of the United States and its NATO allies to project power across the seas.

An open-source wargame to gauge “how climate change could affect a future conflict” has been scheduled for the U.S. Navy in a continuation of President Joe Biden’s executive order on sustainability.

A newly-released Navy training video teaches sailors to use the “right” pronouns, “show that we’re allies,” and create “a safe space for everybody.”

A U.S. Navy warship fired a warning flare early Tuesday to repel a speedboat from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy (IRGCN) during a tense encounter in the strategic Strait of Hormuz.

The Marine Corps identified the five Marines who were killed in an Osprey aircraft accident this week.

Navy reservist Michael Cassidy is headed to a run-off against incumbent Rep. Michael Guest for Mississippi’s 3rd Congressional District.

The decommissioned aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk completed its journey to Brownsville, Texas, this week where she will be scrapped by International Shipbreaking Limited (ISL).