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Reported sexual assaults at U.S. military academies shot up during the 2021-22 school year, and one in five female students told an anonymous survey that they had experienced unwanted sexual contact.

Chief Special Warfare Operator Michael T. Ernst died Sunday following the military free-fall training accident in Marana, Arizona.

A former U.S. Navy captain who was caught up in a massive contracting scandal has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for taking nearly $91,000 in bribes.

Three suicides by sailors assigned to a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier were not connected, but the poor quality of life onboard was a “contributing factor” in one of the deaths.

Citing the “great danger” that a Navy engineer and his wife posed to U.S. security, a federal judge gave both of them lengthy prison terms Wednesday for a plot to sell secrets about nuclear submarines to what they thought was a representative of a foreign government.

The U.S. Navy is sailing two warships through the Taiwan Strait in the first such transit publicized since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August.

After a six month deployment with the U.S. Navy, Andrew Frable proposed to his girlfriend on the pier just moments after he stepped off the USS Indiana.

A Japanese sailor has been attacked in the Solomon Islands during a World War II memorial service that was also attended by U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman.

Two containers with five RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missiles inside of them fell off an MH-60s Knighthawk helicopter in June.

The U.S. Navy’s Mideast-based 5th Fleet is starting to offer rewards for information that could help sailors intercept weapons, drugs and other illicit shipments across the region. The program launches on Tuesday against the backdrop of tensions over Iran’s nuclear program and Tehran’s arming of Yemen’s Houthi rebels. The 5th Fleet’s decision to offer cash and other goods for actionable...

The christening of a Navy destroyer on Saturday highlighted the sacrifices of two generations — the ship’s namesake killed in World War II and another Marine who died more than 60 years later. The future USS Basilone bears the name of a Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor before his death on Iwo Jima. Breaking a bottle on…

The Navy is taking more steps to protect the environment. It’s through a new plan called Climate Action 2030 and it sets the Navy on a path to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.

Submarine USS Connecticut crashed into an object while underwater and U.S. Navy investigators said the accident was preventable. Navy officials said the submarine grounded on an unchartered seamount while driving in what’s being described as a poorly surveyed area. The accident happened on Oct. 2 in international waters in the Indo-Pacific region, according to navy officials. Investigators said the...

The U.S. government is dropping its appeal of a Hawaii order requiring it to remove fuel from a massive military fuel storage facility that leaked petroleum into the Navy’s water system at Pearl Harbor last year

Three sailors assigned to the USS George Washington have turned up dead in within a week, military officials said Tuesday. A sailor was found unresponsive Friday on board the aircraft carrier, which is being overhauled at the Newport News Shipbuilding, Navy Lt. Cmdr. Robert Myers said in a statement to NBC News. The unidentified sailor was taken to Riverside Regional…

A decommissioned World War II-era destroyer docked near downtown Buffalo in New York was taking on water and listing perilously

The U.S. Navy was once enamored with speed

Seaman Apprentice Ryan Sawyer Mays was subject to an Article 32 Hearing in December 2021 to determine whether or not his case would go to court-martial.

A woman is taking over as the commanding officer of the U.S.S. Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, for the first time in the warship’s 224-year history, the Navy announced Tuesday.

One hundred percent of the crew is vaccinated, which officials believe is the key factor in controlling the outbreak aboard the USS Milwaukee