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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard is building a massive new support ship near the strategic Strait of Hormuz as it tries to expand its naval presence in waters vital to international energy supplies and beyond, satellite photos obtained by The Associated Press show.

A USS George Washington sailor’s suicide marks the third time in a week a sailor assigned to the vessel has killed themself, per reports.

A World War II-era destroyer near downtown Buffalo, New York, was taking on water Thursday but not all hope was lost.

As the military world broadens in scale and increases in complexity due to the speed of technological advances, the U.S. Navy wants to scrap 24 ships, including five cruisers and a pair of Los Angeles-class submarines.

The U.S. Navy will honor Ruth Bader Ginsburg by naming a new ship after the late Supreme Court Justice, confirming the choice Thursday as a step towards “equality” and the desire to “eliminate gender discrimination across the Department of the Navy.”

A federal district courtgranted a motion that would treat all sailors with religious objections to Biden’s Pentagon vaccine mandate as part of a single class in a lawsuit brought against the agency by First Liberty on behalf of 35 Navy SEALs.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh joined the Supreme Court in its vote to allow the Pentagon to consider Navy SEALs’ vaccination status in making deployment decisions.

WASHINGTON — A U.S. Navy veteran who was jailed in Iran for nearly two years sued the Iranian government on Thursday for $1 billion, alleging that he was kidnapped, held hostage and tortured.

The U.S. military said Tuesday it conducted an aircraft carrier exercise in the Yellow Sea as part of a “demonstration of resolve” following two partial North Korean tests of a new long-range missile.

The Navy recovered an F-35C Lightning II jet from the South China Sea that crashed on the USS Carl Vinson and landed in the water in January.

Today, we take the term “The United States of America” for granted, but when a plucky Irishman in Washington’s Navy used it for the first time, the unity of the American colonies as well as their quest for independence was in question. 

Leaked video shows an F-35C Lightning II crash on an aircraft carrier and plunge into the South China Sea, a Navy spokesman confirmed Monday.

The U.S. will deploy a guided-missile destroyer and fighter jets to assist the UAE following ongoing rocket attacks from Iran-backed rebels

More than 500 active duty service members across branches have been discharged for refusing to comply with the military’s coronavirus vaccine mandate.

The U.S. Navy announced Wednesday it has discharged 45 service members who refused to accept inoculation with the coronavirus vaccine.

China’s state-run Global Times was positively giddy on Tuesday about the latest Chinese Communist incursion into Taiwan’s Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ), claiming the flight of 39 warplanes left the “Taiwan secessionists” feeling demoralized and subdued.

The U.S. Navy lost a F35C Lightning II combat jet Monday after it crash landed while conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea.

The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier strike group was heading for the Mediterranean on Sunday amid rising tensions between the West and Russia.

The USS Constitution, the world’s oldest ship of any type still afloat, is ready to welcome the first female commander in its storied 224-year history.

A federal judge granted a temporary injunction on Monday against President Biden’s federal vaccine mandate for Navy SEALs.

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier strike group to stay in the Mediterranean Sea region rather than move on to the Middle East, amid worries about the buildup of thousands of Russian troops near the Ukraine border.

About two dozen U.S. Navy sailors on the USS Milwaukee, or roughly 25% of the fully-vaccinated crew, have tested positive for coronavirus.

A U.S. Navy ship is moored alongside in Guantanamo Bay after an outbreak of the coronavirus, despite its crew being “100% immunized,” the navy announced on Christmas Eve.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. Navy said it seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen.

A U.S. Navy ship successfully fired a new, high-energy laser weapon on Tuesday, destroying a training target.

DUBAI – The U.S. Navy has rescued five Iranian sailors injured in an explosion that erupted on their vessel and seized its cargo of illegal drugs, a statement said on Thursday.

A Navy commander was recently fired over his refusal to be vaccinated or tested for coronavirus, according to reports.

Charles Louis “Sonny Boy” Saunders is being laid to rest in his Texas hometown 80 years after he died in the Pearl Harbor attack.

The U.S. Navy has rescued two Iranian seamen who had been adrift for eight days on a fishing boat in Gulf waters, a statement said on Sunday.

Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman Wu Qian said on Friday that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) desires closer relations with the U.S. military – and then blamed the U.S. for taking “provocative” actions that make such a close relationship difficult.

A local business in California is showing appreciation for servicemembers through a project on the home of a United States Navy veteran.

Navy sailors who recently earned increases in housing allowances due to marriage or relocating to a more expensive area are noticing months-long delays in their pay raise, according to Military.com.

Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), the parent company to Newport News Shipbuilding, suspended its federally-enforced coronavirus vaccine mandate after the U.S. Navy “confirmed that our contracts do not include a requirement to implement the mandate,” and some workers threatened to quit, according to the Daily Press and WTKR.

Across Southern New England, citizens plan to honor the nation’s veterans with parades and ceremonies for Veterans Day.

A U.S. Navy ship carrying the name of slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk was formally christened and launched Saturday in San Diego Bay.

A Vietnam veteran got some much needed help from an organization in Wyandotte, Michigan, when it was discovered he was living in poor conditions.