Guided-missile destroyer USS Russell returned to San Diego on Tuesday after an eight-month deployment conducting global maritime security operations with the Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group. Family and loved ones welcomed the ship’s crew back during a homecoming ceremony.

The first of two additional destroyers planned for Naval Station Rota in Spain arrived, heralding a long-anticipated expansion of NATO firepower in Europe.

The Navy has not found the wreckage or crew of an EA-18G Growler jet that crashed on the east side of Mount Rainier, service officials said Wednesday.

A retired Navy veteran was killed in a hit-and-run as he walked his dog in Missouri, his family says. His dog was also found dead nearby, authorities said.

Everett Titterington, a serviceman who died aboard the USS Oklahoma during Pearl Harbor in 1941, was finally identified by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and comes back home.

The only U.S. warship equipped with the High-Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, system recently joined 7th Fleet.

A U.S. Navy parachutist accidentally landed on two spectators at a Fleet Week air show in San Francisco, California firefighters told news outlets.

The Blue Angels performed their air show on Sunday afternoon, following the cancellation of their Saturday show due to unsafe weather conditions caused by the notorious San Francisco fog.

Reports have estimated that in a conflict with China, U.S. warships would have to quickly leave to friendly piers to reload. Reloading in the open ocean would allow the U.S. surface fleet to stay in a fight and is a top priority for Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro.

Two and a half centuries after the Continental Congress ordered the dispatch of a “swift sailing vessel” with “ten carriage guns,” the modern U.S. Navy counts hundreds of ships and thousands of personnel, and is looking to build out its arsenal of drones.

India, Australia, Japan and the U.S. are members of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, or Quad, an informal group formed as a strategic hedge against Beijing’s rising military power.

The welding deficiencies were made on noncritical components of three in-service ships. They were done at Newport News Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, which is the sole maker of carriers for the Navy and one of only two firms that make submarines.

The entire Florida National Guard was joined by Guard forces from at least seven other states as they began route clearance, search and rescue, and other missions before dawn Thursday after the fast-moving storm struck Wednesday night.

The amphibious assault ship USS Boxer arrived in the Philippines with emergency supplies Tuesday as the island nation continues to recover from Super Typhoon Krathon.

A U.S. Navy helicopter resumed its flight four hours after making a “precautionary landing” Thursday on a beach about 30 miles southwest of Tokyo.

The service’s interactive marketing campaign encourages users to decipher codes and search for clues to complete command directives. The campaign is the latest tactic to target submarine-specific jobs, a niche community of sailors that can prove difficult to recruit.

The USS Comstock returned to Naval Base San Diego on Tuesday after a successful four-month deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations.

The Air Force and Navy moved aircraft and ships out of the path of Hurricane Milton on Tuesday as the storm churned toward Florida’s west coast.

The Navy is considering improved pay and working conditions for civilian mariners among the fixes it hopes will address the manpower shortage crippling its logistics fleet.