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.
A new national museum for the U.S. Navy is planned for outside the historic Washington Navy Yard to give the public unfettered access to the sea service’s history.
Two aviators who died when their fighter jet crashed last week near Mount Rainier during routine training were a trailblazing female duo who recently returned from a Red Sea deployment, the Navy said.
All versions of the F-35, the world’s costliest weapons program, have failed to meet minimum combat readiness rates for six straight years, according to the watchdog agency for Congress.
The Navy over the weekend fired the commanding and executive officer of the 7th Fleet’s primary repair facility in Japan for unspecified performance issues.
A Canadian frigate joined a U.S. Navy warship for a trip through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, less than a week after China concluded a large-scale military exercise around Taiwan.
A crowd of thousands had an opportunity to experience the world’s largest Navy base for free with ship tours, military demonstrations along with aircraft displays, a car show, food vendors, a chili cook-off, live entertainment and, for the first time, a carnival.
The aircraft carrier USS George Washington is on its way to Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, where it will take the place of the USS Ronald Reagan in the U.S. 7th Fleet, the Navy announced Friday.
In March 2022, the Navy and the state Department of Health said they had successfully cleaned the contaminated water system, but many residents had doubts — and some were still reporting symptoms.
U.S. forces hit weapons storage facilities in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen on Wednesday with “multiple precision airstrikes,” including use of a B-2 Spirit long-range stealth bomber, according to U.S. Central Command.