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The Navy stated that it is very unlikely the missiles will detonate underwater.

Scuba divers who spent a year cleaning up Lake Tahoe's entire 72-mile shoreline removed 25,000 pounds of underwater litter

The Navy has released the name of the Sailor killed in a helicopter mishap at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek in Virginia.

The Navy’s no-beard policy harms sailors who suffer from Pseudofolliculitis Barbae—primarily African Americans.

Seaman Ryan Sawyer Mays, the man the Navy alleges is responsible for one of the Navy's biggest peacetime disasters, will be tried in September.

The following is the collected list of Navy officers selected for the rank of rear admiral announced March 2022 by the service. Rear Adm. Michael D. Bernacchi Jr. will be assigned as deputy commander, Tenth Fleet, Fort George G.Meade, Maryland. Bernacchi is currently serving as director, Plans and Policy, J-5, U.S. Space Command, Peterson Air […]

The Navy wants its new two-star safety command to evaluate risk and safety in a similar way to how the service looks at the health of its ships, the number-two officer told Congress today. Adm. Bill Lescher, the vice chief of naval operations, compared the recently established Naval Safety Command to the Board of Inspection […]

The Navy admits it has been forced to learn some hard safety lessons the hard way over the past few years, with incidents such as August 2017 when the USS John McCain collided with an oil tanker, causing the death of 10 sailors, and the suspicious fire aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard in 2020 that took four days to extinguish and resulted in the ship being scrapped.

The Navy admits it has been forced to learn some hard safety lessons the hard way over the past few years, with incidents such as August 2017 when the USS John McCain collided with an oil tanker, causing the death of 10 sailors, and the suspicious fire aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard in 2020 that took four days to extinguish and resulted in the ship being scrapped.

The Navy has a new command after the Naval Safety Center was formally converted into the Naval Safety Command on Friday morning. The Naval Safety Command is a two-star command, which will focus on ensuring the service’s health and well-being. The command has historically been responsible for collecting data on Navy and Marine Corps mishaps. […]