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Rob O’Neill, the Navy SEAL who killed al Qaeda terrorist Osama bin Laden, blasted the Navy for enlisting a drag queen influencer as a “digital ambassador” to help recruit.

Australian officials said AUKUS will cost up to $245 billion and create 20,000 jobs. It comes as China rapidly builds up its own military.

Brazil will be welcoming a fleet of Iranian warships to Rio de Janeiro this week, Iranian state media announced, in what will be a first-ever visit by the rogue Iranian state’s navy to the Americas.

The navies of India and France ended planned joint exercises on Tuesday in which French officials expressed interest in expanding the country’s sales of military equipment to New Delhi — a clear attempt at dethroning India’s current top weapons supplier, Russia.

Two U.S. Navy warships narrowly avoided collision earlier this week in the San Diego Bay, as seen in a video captured by a public web camera.

Hunter Biden was booted from the Navy in 2014 after failing a drug test, the Wall Street Journal reported at the time. Hunter had secured two waivers to join the Navy Reserve part-time, at 43 years old, but his “brief military career” ended after cocaine was found in his system.

Trump Jr. triggered the left by saying Navy SEAL friends tell him they spend more time on diversity training than shooting.

China’s state-run Global Times on Wednesday suggested that a recent increase in Chinese naval activity near waters surrounding the Japanese archipelago will soon “become routine,” as Beijing ramps up its militaristic ambitions across the greater Pacific Ocean.

Japan’s foreign ministry confirmed Thursday that a flotilla of Chinese Navy ships that entered waters near Japan’s Tsushima Strait on June 12 completed a circumnavigation of the archipelago after a nearly three-week mission that saw the ships end their journey near Taiwan, Kyodo News reported.

Navy reservist Michael Cassidy is headed to a run-off against incumbent Rep. Michael Guest for Mississippi’s 3rd Congressional District.

The Air Force on Wednesday tweeted out a graphic with “#CELEBRATEPRIDE” and a female airman saluting with rainbow colors on her hand.

The Navy recently hosted an “inaugural diversity, equity, and inclusion summit” for information warfare sailors.

Adm. Michael Gilday released an updated recommended reading list for sailors, and books on critical race theory he had recommended last year are absent from the new list.

A federal district courtgranted a motion that would treat all sailors with religious objections to Biden’s Pentagon vaccine mandate as part of a single class in a lawsuit brought against the agency by First Liberty on behalf of 35 Navy SEALs.

The military has discharged nearly 1,500 service members over the Biden administration’s military vaccine mandate.

Nearly 1,000 service members have been discharged over the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate, according to recently released numbers.

Irish fishermen look set to take on the Russian Navy, with a fishing organisation in the country planning a peaceful protest of military drills off the island’s coast.

The navies of Iran, China, and Russia launched a three-day joint maritime drill on Friday in the northern Indian Ocean designed to signal a “common future” between the three nations, Iranian Rear Admiral Mostafa Tajoldini told Iranian state television.

The British government’s latest plans to tackle illegal migration have faced staunch criticism from Nigel Farage as well as Conservative MPs.

A U.S. Navy ship is moored alongside in Guantanamo Bay after an outbreak of the coronavirus, despite its crew being “100% immunized,” the navy announced on Christmas Eve.

Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said Tuesday that a booster shot requirement was “under active discussion” at the Pentagon.

The president’s public schedule for Saturday is empty after Biden and his wife, first lady Jill Biden, traveled to their home in Wilmington, Delaware, on Friday night for the weekend.

The navies of both China and Russia dispatched a joint group of 10 vessels to sail through Japan’s Tsugaru Strait — which links the Sea of Japan with the Pacific Ocean — on Monday, Japan’s Defense Ministry said.

Banks will introduce an amendment on Wednesday to ban the military from promoting ideas affiliated with Critical Race Theory.

The Pentagon on Saturday morning announced the names of the 13 American servicemembers killed in the August 26 Kabul airport attack.

Maxton William Soviak, a Navy Corpsman, died at the hands of Islamic terrorists on Thursday in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The Navy admiral in charge of naval personnel admitted that a step taken last year to increase racial diversity among leaders has backfired.

The Navy on Thursday announced its first woman had joined its special operations community after she completed training to become a SWCC.

The Navy’s brass is more focused on wokeness than on winning wars, according to a damning report commissioned by GOP lawmakers.

An ODNI report released Friday said there were at least 143 unidentified aerial phenomena between 2004 and 2021 that are “unexplained.”

Gilday would not say whether he thought capitalism was racist during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday.

The Navy’s top military officer Adm. Michael Gilday on Tuesday defended putting Ibram X. Kendi’s book How to Be an Anti-Racist on the Navy’s list of recommended reads for sailors, telling lawmakers that sailors need to understand themselves.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday on Tuesday defended putting Ibram X. Kendi’s book How to Be an Anti-Racist on the Navy’s list of books every United States sailor should read, under grilling from Republican Study Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) at a House hearing.

The gallant 26-year-old Marblehead captain James Mugford Jr. captured the largest single prize of the Revolutionary War, the Hope.

Challenging the British Royal Navy by transforming a fishing schooner into a man of war seemed as preposterous then as it does now. But British disarmament and a lack of crucial gunpowder in the colonies led to American innovation. 

The Acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Harker on Monday released a memo outlining his efforts to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in the Navy.