Retired Cmdr. Everett Alvarez Jr., now 86, was captured Aug. 5, 1964, while on a bombing mission near the North Vietnam-China border. He survived beatings, torture and starvation during 3,113 days of captivity.

Navy SEAL Hell Week trainers need a more clear-cut policy on using sleep deprivation on recruits, according to a new troop safety investigation that reviewed measures taken after a sailor died during the grueling ordeal.

A missile-defense system proposed for Guam has been narrowed down to 16 sites from 22, according to a draft environmental impact statement.

The Navy is studying options for supplying its four public shipyards with electricity and potable water in the event of a power grid or utility outage that could last up to two weeks.

U.S. Navy and United Arab Emirates drone operations wrapped up Thursday after a 10-day exercise in the Persian Gulf, where Iran was hosting its own maritime showcase on the opposite side of the strategic waterway.

Navy, state and local officials on Wednesday celebrated the completion of a micro-grid at the naval submarine base, a project they said will make the base more energy resilient and serve as a model for other military installations across the country.

Asemoon Amirazodi was determined to get a towering skeleton from the U.S. to her home at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni near Hiroshima, but she’d reached a dead end. But then Home Depot stepped in to help get Skelly to Japan in time for Halloween.

A supervising Navy service member was cited for abuse of power after a recommendation to revoke a subordinate’s security clearance was determined to be an act of retaliation, a Defense Department inspector general investigation found.

For the first time in 25 years, hundreds of young sailors with the U.S. Navy will travel aboard a vessel named after the city of Atlanta, the branch announced Wednesday at the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum. Atlanta has had five previous Navy ships named for it, serving in times of crisis during the Civil War, World War II and the Cold War.

Old Dominion University football coach, Ricky Rahne, and the Monarchs showed their appreciation for the military by scheduling Rahne’s weekly radio coach’s show aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower in Norfolk, Va., the nation’s second-oldest aircraft carrier.