Navy identifies sailor who died aboard USS Vella Gulf
The sailor who died this week aboard the guided-missile cruiser USS Vella Gulf while it was in the Mediterranean Sea was Petty Officer 2nd Class Imran Khan, the Navy said Friday. Khan was a...
View ArticleNavy fires captain of USS Philippine Sea following command investigation
Capt. Erica Hoffmann has been fired as commanding officer of the cruiser USS Philippine Sea following a command investigation, a spokeswoman for Naval Surface Force Atlantic said on Monday. Lt Cmdr....
View ArticleFire strikes fourth Navy warship since mid-July
Yet another fire aboard a Navy warship has left more than a dozen crew members injured in the fourth blaze to strike Navy warship in just over two months. A “small fire” in the engineering space...
View ArticleUSS Lake Champlain crew member admits to hanging a noose at a Black sailor’s...
A sailor from the cruiser USS Lake Champlain has admitted to hanging what appeared to be a noose at the rack of a Black crew member aboard the ship, a Navy official said. The Naval Criminal...
View ArticleNavy Cruiser Battling ISIS Rocked By Salacious Sex Scandal At Sea
The guided-missile cruiser USS Hue City (CG 66) fires a Mark 45 5-inch gun during a live-fire exercise.A deployed Navy cruiser has been rocked by scandal after six chief petty officers — or, nearly a...
View ArticleTop admiral condemns extremism after ‘separate incidents’ of hate speech on...
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday issued a fleet-wide message on Tuesday urging sailors to fight extremism following “two separate incidents where symbols of hate and violence were...
View ArticleHow a disaster of the Navy’s own making poisoned thousands of people in Hawaii
Two sailors assigned to Construction Battalion Maintenance Unit (CBMU) 303, walk toward a Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) resident’s home to conduct a field team home visit in February 2022....
View ArticleFor the love of God, please stop referring to Navy warships as ‘battleships’
USS New Mexico, anchored in the Tokyo Bay area, circa late August 1945, at the end of World War II. Mount Fuji is in the background. (U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.). Friends,...
View ArticleHere are the US weapons Ukraine would need to sink Russia’s Black Sea Fleet
A Sept. 10, 2008, shows the Moskva, missile cruiser flagship of Russian Black Sea Fleet, entering Sevastopol bay. (Vasily Batanov/AFP via Getty Images). While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been...
View ArticleChina has a stockpile of 500 nuclear warheads, up from 400 last year
Dongfeng-41 nuclear missiles take part in a military parade celebrating the 70th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Beijing, capital of China, Oct. 1, 2019. (Xinhua/Xia...
View ArticleShirtless Russian sailors casually sunbathe while their ship almost collides...
After Russian and American warships nearly collided in the East China Sea on Friday, both countries were quick to accuse the other of “dangerous and unprofessional” behavior, according to a June 7...
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