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Navy week coming to Detroit with concerts and week long events leading up to the Thunder Over Michigan Airshow.

By Oren Liebermann, CNN

The keel laying is an important, albeit largely ceremonial, event in the submarine's path forward to its first patrol in 2030.

In interviews with Breaking Defense, lawmakers say they're concerned about the Navy's revitalization plan, but still aren't sold on a fifth public shipyard.

I'd love to describe the details to you but I don't think I can ever do as good a job as Representative Henry Waxman and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse. They wrote a letter to McCain and Gingrich. Gave 'em a good shellacking, they did. I love this letter so much I'm giving it to you three times. First, as a picture of the letter because it is so cool looking. Then, as a transcript so it is searchable. Then, as a link to a PDF file.

Three junior enlisted sailors assigned to aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN-73) died earlier this month in three separate apparent suicides within a week of each other, Navy officials have told USNI News. The most recent, Master-at-Arms Seaman Recruit Xavier Hunter Mitchell-Sandor, was found aboard the carrier on April 15 and was pronounced dead later […]

Trenton Navy Week brings Sailors from across the fleet to the area to emphasize the importance of the Navy to Trenton.

They were jammed. they didnt get the data until the wednesday before christmas. they are discovering that certain airplane types are affected even more than we thought. there was a prospect of grounding half of the u.s. fleet. what at&t is saying, is not accurate. in every other country these things are directed away, shielded from flight paths. they operate at a much lower power. in japan they operate at 5% of the power thats proposed here. no one has let this go forward at this power with no r...

The Israeli ambassador to Manama says the regime will “soon” appoint a military attache to the US Navy's Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain.

NAS Patuxent River announced March 2 that indoor mask-wearing is not required for DoD personnel in all but two DoD spaces at NAS Patuxent River, regardless of vaccination status. The two exceptions to this policy are the Naval Health Clinic Patuxent River and NAS Patuxent River Child and Youth Programs spaces, where masks are still required by all in these spaces.