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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The unnamed sailor, who was charged in the death of 22-year-old Petty Officer Third Class Lyndon Joel Cosgriff-Flax, is also facing additional charges of making a false official statement and dereliction of duty.

The Navy’s issuance on Friday of a final environmental assessment that found no significant impact clears the way for a project that will “improve energy security, strategic flexibility, and energy resiliency at JBPHH and the island of Oahu,” the service said in a news release that day.

The USS Boxer and the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit returned to their respective homeports in San Diego and Camp Pendleton, Calif., after a deployment to the U.S. 7th and 3rd Fleet areas of operations. More than 2,500 sailors and Marines participated in joint and combined exercises in the Indo-Pacific.