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Prodded by a mandate from Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to expunge from Navy training anything that fails to make the fleet more lethal and agile as the United States enters a new era of great power competition, leaders are moving to make sure every sailor pulls his or her weight, with a premium placed on job performance.

A The Navy’s first court martial of a service member in connection with the Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis scandal ended with a guilty plea.

Blue cammies’ best attribute is concealing sailors who fall overboard, the joke goes. Its days may be numbered.

An earlier US Navy release stated that USS Canberra will be the first US Navy warship to be commissioned in an allied country.

The Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Canberra (LCS 30) departs San Diego Harbor for a routine underway off the California Coast. Littoral Combat Ships are fast, optimally manned, mission-tailored surface combatants that operate in...

It was not a good time for the carrier Kitty Hawk as it steamed across the South China Sea toward Vietnam in October 1972. The ship already had been deployed for eight months, and was on track to spend a record number of days at sea with a grueling pace of flight operations to support U.S. troops in Vietnam.

Jose Rosario made E-7 in less than half the average time to earn anchors. How he did it.

The Navy announced on Wednesday that it is beginning the process to discharge sailors who refuse to comply with the branch’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate.

Huntington Ingalls Sees Record-Breaking 2020, Moving to Integrating Business Lines Ingalls Shipbuilding in May 2019. HII Photo After coming through 2020 with record sales and growing its unmanned systems portfolio through acquisitions and partnerships, Huntington Ingalls Industries plans to use that momentum in 2021 to integrate its different business lines to help its customers tackle more complex challenges, the company president said today. Noting the hardship of the pandemic in 2020 but the...

Man gets new hearing 11 years after conviction in murder-for-hire of Navy officer The Associated Press (rclassenlayouts/Getty Images) NORFOLK, Va. — A Virginia man who was convicted in the murder-for-hire of a Navy officer in Newport News has gotten a new court hearing. The Daily Press reported Sunday that the hearing for David A. Runyon will focus on whether his trial lawyers should have better investigated evidence that he was suffering from brain damage. A Norfolk federal jury co...