Two U.S. Navy destroyers defeated a Houthi militant drone and missile attack earlier this week while escorting merchant ships through the Gulf of Aden, U.S. military officials said.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

Jill Biden began her last overseas trip as first lady this week at a Navy base in Sicily, speaking to military families before visiting the small Sicilian village where her great-grandparents once lived.

Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Bourque was fired from the Navy Reserve Center Cheyenne, and Lt. Cmdr. Margaret Nichols has been temporarily assigned as the commanding officer.

A driving factor is the Navy and Marine Corps are at odds about how many amphibious ships are needed to deploy Marines effectively, the GAO said. The report outlines recommendations for the services to work together to refine their availability goals for amphibious ships.

Sailors assigned to the USS George Washington are currently prohibited from consuming any alcoholic beverages on or off base, ship spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Mark Langford said.

Two sailors assigned to the USS George Washington died within days of the aircraft carrier’s arrival at its new homeport in Japan, a ship spokesman confirmed.

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.

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.

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.