Navy to leverage University of Hawaii’s prowess in climate resiliency, resource protection

The U.S. Navy and the University of Hawaii have signed a 10-year agreement aimed at leveraging the institute’s expertise to bolster climate resilience and protect natural and cultural resources on Navy and Marine Corps bases in the state.

Navy overhauling moldy and pest-riddled barracks, housing management policies

The Navy is focusing on renovating its squalid unaccompanied housing and stepping up maintenance and management of living conditions. The effort is meant to address issues identified by a 2023 GAO report that found poor living conditions across DOD-owned housing.

Future USS Arkansas, the latest Virginia-class submarine, christened

The future USS Arkansas, the 27th Virginia-class submarine, was christened Saturday in Newport News, Va.

Wasp Amphibious Ready Group back home after 7-month deployment

The seven-month deployment entailed high-profile exercises in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea and the Baltic Sea, the latter of which prompted flyovers by Russian bombers, and over a dozen port visits.

Mother of California Navy corpsman killed by neighbor settles suits against government for $10.5M

The lawsuits filed by the mother of 24-year-old Navy Corpsman Devon Rideout alleged the Marine Corps and the California Department of Justice failed to properly submit information about the background of Rideout’s killer, a Marine Corps deserter.

Naval Academy allowed to continue using race in admissions, federal judge rules

The U.S. Naval Academy may continue using race in its admissions process, a federal judge ruled Friday, brushing back an attempt by a group that had successfully overturned affirmative action in college admissions to extend that to the Annapolis-based military academy.

Poor air quality, lax standards put Camp Lemonnier personnel at risk, IG says

Navy officials in charge of the military’s main operating base in Africa put troops at higher risk of exposure to toxic air by not heeding environmental safety requirements, a Defense Department probe found.

US military bases celebrate the season with Christmas tree lightings, holiday festivals

U.S. military bases across the country and around the world are hosting Christmas tree lighting ceremonies and festive activities for service members and their families this month to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season.

Physically fit sailors may be exempt from body standards next year, Navy says

The Navy announced updates to its Fitness Enhancement Program, giving sailors who come up short on the service’s body composition assessment standards an incentive for passing the fitness phase with a score of excellent-low or higher.

Navy base in Japan is first to test backup power via congressionally mandated drill

Sasebo Naval Base recently became the first Navy base in Japan to successfully test its ability to maintain electrical power through backup generators in case it’s cut off from the local grid, the service said.