TEL AVIV – The “great nation” of Iran has smashed the U.S. knee that was on its throat, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday, in an apparent nod to the manner in which George Floyd died while being restrained by a police officer.
The Navy’s top admiral has ordered that the Confederate battle flag be prohibited from display on naval bases, ships, aircraft, and submarines.
Iran has re-built a crude wooden mock-up of a U.S. Navy nuclear aircraft carrier at a shipyard alongside its Persian Gulf coast, readying it for the express purpose of being targeted in live-fire drills.
The USS Russell, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Thursday, the 31st anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It was the seventh U.S. Navy transit of the strait in 2020, and the second such passage in the past three weeks.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Navy veteran detained in Iran for nearly two years has been released and is on his way home aboard a Swiss government aircraft, U.S. officials said Thursday.
Two Russian Su-35 fighter jets flew made a dangerous interception U.S. Navy P-8A maritime patrol aircraft over international waters in the Eastern Mediterranean, the U.S. Navy announced on Wednesday.
A total of 112 speed boats were delivered to Iran’s expanding naval forces Thursday during a ceremony held in the port city of Bandar Abbas.
An accused terrorist who allegedly opened fire on United States Navy personnel in Corpus Christi, Texas, was able to secure American citizenship through a little-known immigration loophole, a former intelligence agent states.
The U.S. Pacific Air Forces (PACAF) announced on Tuesday that American B-1B Lancer bombers recently “conducted a mission over the South China Sea, just days after training with the U.S. Navy near Hawaii, demonstrating the credibility of U.S. Air Force forces to address a diverse and uncertain security environment.”
Nineteen sailors are dead and 15 others left wounded after an Iranian naval support vessel was reportedly hit and sunk by a surface-to-surface missile late Sunday in a “friendly fire” incident.
Four U.S. Navy ships and a British Royal Navy frigate entered the Barents Sea, north of Russia, to conduct Arctic security operations on May 4, the Pentagon confirmed Monday.
U.S. Navy Captain Brett Crozier is headed back to the U.S. from Guam, where he has been recuperating from coronavirus, according to CBS News.
Trump honored high school sophomore TJ Kim for launching Supplies Over Skies to deliver more than 10,000 pieces of PPE to rural hospitals.
The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy Blue Angels demonstration squads began their flyover of the United States on Tuesday.
Iran shrugged off U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent comments about naval confrontation in the contested waters of the Persian Gulf, warning Wednesday a hard slap in the face awaits foreign perpetrators committing even “the merest violation” of the Islamic republic’s territory.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper is deciding whether to take the Navy’s recommendation to reinstate Navy Capt. Brett Crozier as the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt — the aircraft carrier that was sidelined in Guam with a coronavirus outbreak — after the service concluded its investigation into his actions on Friday.
Military dogs are “part of the team,” said Will Chesney, retired Navy SEAL dog handler and author of No Ordinary Dog: My Partner.
The U.S. Navy has finished testing all sailors aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt for coronavirus, it announced Thursday.
A 96-year-old World War II veteran is running coast-to-coast for his second time to raise enough money to sail the fully restored landing ship the USS LST 325, to Normandy, France, in time for D-Day’s anniversary.
Major General Hossein Salami, top commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), said on Thursday he has ordered Iranian military vessels to open fire if they feel threatened by ships from the “terrorist” U.S. Navy. The IRGC is itself a designated terrorist organization.
The Pentagon said Trump’s tweet instructing the Navy to shoot down and destroy gunboats from Iran harassing its ships “important.”
President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he had ordered the destruction of Iranian gunboats harassing American ships.
Three U.S. warships in the South China Sea have been joined by a frigate supplied by ally Australia to patrol an area where a Chinese vessel is suspected to be illegally exploring for oil, officials said Wednesday.
A new class of Navy SEALs earned their Trident pins this week at a ceremony in San Diego where attendees observed social distancing amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to Naval Special Warfare (NSW).
WASHINGTON — A group of 11 Iranian naval vessels made “dangerous and harassing” maneuvers near U.S. ships in the Persian Gulf near Kuwait on Wednesday, in one case passing within 10 yards (meters) of a Coast Guard cutter, American officials said.
A CNN report received widespread criticism after it repeated Chinese propaganda and cited a Chinese state media outlet as its source.
A USS Theodore Roosevelt sailor has died of coronavirus-related complications, the U.S. Navy said on Monday.
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly resigned Tuesday over a controversy involving the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Smith called for the removal of Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly on Monday over his decision to fire Navy Capt. Brett Crozier.
Trump said he would get involved with the Navy’s firing of Capt. Brett Crozier, the former commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
As possible geopolitical ramifications of maintaining or severing ties with China post-coronavirus are weighed it is important to point out that the U.S. military ammunition supply is not China-dependent.
Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly blasted Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, the fired commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Zinke dismissed Joe Biden’s criticism of the administration for firing Navy Capt. Brett Crozier, the commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Trump said he backed the Navy’s decision to fire the commander of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt “one hundred percent.”
Milley said the Navy had reason to believe that ex-USS Theodore Roosevelt commander Captain Brett Crozier went outside his chain of command.
Videos from sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt showed the crew cheering their commander as he walked off his ship.
Modly said other ships in the Pacific may now be on higher alert due to the ex-commander of the USS Theodore Roosevelt’s leaked memo.
The Navy fired USS Theodore Roosevelt commander Capt. Brett Crozier, after his memo pleading leaders to get sailors off the ship leaked.
Although the spread of the coronavirus has made the threat China poses to the United States a front-burner topic, the rise of the Asian superpower has been something both U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have been evaluating for quite some time.
A Navy captain commanding the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt is reportedly asking his commanders to allow his sailors off the ship to self-quarantine while docked in Guam.
