Meet Colby Brewer, the 29-year-old former Navy EOD and current New Mexico football walk-on

Colby Brewer spent his first decade after high school traveling the world with a Navy bomb squad. But approaching his 30s, Brewer was searching for a second act.

From Crackerjack to Aquaflage: Exhibit highlights Navy’s impact on fashion

The uniforms of sailors have spawned civilian fashion trends still popular today, from white t-shirts to dungarees. The journey from the high seas to cultural icons is told in a new exhibit at the Puget Sound Navy Museum in Bremerton, Wash.

Stealth destroyer to be home for first hypersonic weapon on US warship

The U.S. Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon, which is being retrofitted aboard the first of its three stealthy destroyers, the USS Zumwalt.

Navy contractor gets suspended sentence for marijuana possession on Okinawa

A Japanese court handed a U.S. Navy contractor a six-month suspended sentence for possessing a small amount of marijuana after smoking with a coworker.

Trump taps businessman and mega donor as next Navy secretary

John Phelan is the founder of Rugger Management LLC and co-founder of MSD Capital, both private investment firms. He also serves as a board member of military-themed nonprofit Spirit of America.

‘Come for the dog, stay for the care’: Sailors find mental health care aboard Navy warships through ‘fur therapy’

Four dogs have deployed aboard East Coast-based warships since 2023 as part of a small-scale test. The test is part of a quality-of-life initiative the Navy launched in 2022 in the wake of a cluster of sailor suicides.

USS Abraham Lincoln is first carrier to visit Malaysia since ‘Fat Leonard’ scandal

The USS Abraham Lincoln pulled into Port Klang over the weekend, marking the first U.S. aircraft carrier visit to Malaysia in more than a decade following a high-profile bribery scandal involving a Malaysian contractor.

`Newest Navy ship commissioned in ceremony honoring Wisconsin industrial base

The USS Beloit is named for the city of Beloit, Wis., which was a center for heavy industry in the early 20th century. Officials used the event to praise the U.S. defense industrial base and new littoral combat ships, despite the LCS program’s controversy.

Navy surveillance plane makes rare flight over Taiwan Strait

A U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon surveillance plane flew over the Taiwan Strait on Tuesday, the first such transit over the 110-mile-wide channel that separates mainland China from Taiwan since mid-September.

White House asks Congress for extra $5.7 billion for Navy submarine cost overruns

The White House asked Congress to provide about $5.7 billion in additional funds to cover cost overruns for three Virginia-class submarines, as well as for shipyard enhancements and higher wages to attract welders, pipefitters and engineers.