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The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort will arrive alongside New York City as early as next week, Navy officials said Thursday.

Three U.S. sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt returned a positive diagnosis for Chinese coronavirus on Tuesday, the first cases reported on a deployed U.S. Navy ship.

New Hampshire congressional candidate and Navy Reserve Capt. Lynne Blankenbeker is deploying in the fight against the coronavirus.

The Navy deployed a massive hospital ship to Los Angeles to help local authorities deal with the strain of battling the coronavirus.

The first sailor assigned to a U.S. warship has tested “presumptive positive” for the coronavirus, but authorities said Sunday the result needed to be confirmed by health specialists.

The U.S. Navy commissioned a warship to honor World War II hero, Hershel “Woody” Williams, in Norfolk, Virginia, on Saturday.

The U.S. Navy disclosed on Friday that a Chinese destroyer in the western Pacific targeted an American plane flying over international waters with a laser. The U.S. Pacific Fleet denounced China’s action as an “unsafe and unprofessional” provocation that violated both international maritime codes and agreements reached between America and China.

The USS Normandy, a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, intercepted a small sailing vessel in the Arabian Sea over the weekend and found it loaded with Iranian weapons bound for the Houthi rebels in Yemen. The weapons included 150 anti-tank missiles and three surface-to-air missiles, plus a supply of components useful for maintaining unmanned aerial vehicles.

Students at a Missouri Catholic school received the ultimate surprise during their annual teacher versus student volleyball game when one of their teachers deployed in the military for a year made his return to school.

The U.S. Navy announced on Tuesday that the USS Montgomery, an advanced littoral combat ship, sailed near the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea on Saturday to “assert navigational rights and freedoms consistent with international law.” It was the first Freedom of Navigation Operation (FONOP) of 2020.

In response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the South China Morning Post, the U.S. Navy on Thursday released video of an unsafe encounter between a Chinese warship and the destroyer USS Decatur in September 2018.

A disabled U.S. Navy veteran recently received an unexpected gift after a contractor reportedly failed to asphalt his driveway correctly in December.

The U.S. Navy is planning to name an aircraft carrier after Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller, the first black man to receive the Navy cross for valor.

A young boy in Annville, Pennsylvania, gave a very special tribute Sunday to members of the United States military who are away from their families this holiday season.

A California second-grader was in for the surprise of his life when he reunited with his sister, who had been away serving in the military, in time for Christmas.

A Navy veteran received an early Christmas gift this year after a few sponsors at a recent Charlotte Checkers hockey game teamed up to present her with a car on Friday night.

A wounded Navy lieutenant who joined the military in 1991 and served for more than 20 years as a Navy SEAL received a mortgage-free home Tuesday thanks to the nonprofit Building Homes for Heroes.

Airman Mohammed Haitham, who died saving others at NAS Pensacola, was the best of America, a Muslim patriot. He will not have died in vain.

Americans are taking the time on Saturday to mark the 78th anniversary of the Japanese attack on American soil at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, which killed more than 2,400 people.

A U.S. Navy warship has seized a “significant cache” of suspected Iranian guided missile parts headed to rebels in Yemen, officials said Wednesday, marking the first time that such sophisticated components have been taken en route to the war there.

Esper said Monday he fired Spencer because Spencer had gone behind his back on handling the case of Navy Seal Eddie Gallagher.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision not to be drawn into military conflict with Iran was attacked by France’s defense minister on Saturday, with Florence Parly lamenting the absence of an American military response in the oil-rich region.

A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, after it was ordered by the White House to rapidly deploy to the Mideast to meet heightened threats from Iran.

Expedition crews believe they have discovered two Japanese aircraft carriers that have been missing for nearly 80 years in the Pacific Ocean, which were sunk in the famed Battle of Midway.

The Navy recently sent an aircraft carrier strike group and an amphibious ready group into the South China Sea, apparently for the first time.

A U.S. Army veteran in Aurora, Colorado, is helping his fellow servicemen learn job skills to get them back on their feet.

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) docked briefly in Lebanon, the U.S. embassy in Beirut said on Sunday, as regional tensions continue to rise.

One of the last four survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona by the Japanese on December 7, 1941, died on Tuesday in California.

China warned Britain against becoming more active in the South China Sea, saying any deployment of the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth near the contested Spratly Islands could be seen as a “hostile action.”

The U.S. Navy has asked the shipbuilding industry to pitch ideas for its planned fleet of corvette-sized unmanned surface vessels, according to a draft request for proposal announced on Wednesday.

The U.S. Pacific Fleet confirmed on Wednesday that China had blocked a previously scheduled visit for two U.S. Navy ships to Hong Kong, adding that it hopes Beijing will soon reconsider and continue allowing the American military to have ties to the capitalist port city.

Sailors from France, Greece and the United States have arrived aboard their vessels and joined by the Israelis off the Israeli port city of Haifa for a major four-day naval exercise called Mighty Waves.

The United Kingdom’s Royal Navy and the United States Navy are launching a joint task force to patrol the Strait of Hormuz, weeks after a British vessel was captured by Iranian gunboats in the strategic waterway.

The Navy has decided to drop all charges against Lt. Jacob Portier, the former platoon commander for Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher.

The U.S. Air Force and U.S. Navy took part in an integration exercise in the Arabian Gulf last week, U.S. Air Forces Central Command announced.

The guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Wednesday, the tenth such passage by a U.S. Navy ship this year.