Two US counter-mine ships based in the Middle East are now in Singapore, Navy says
The USS Santa Barbara and USS Tulsa, which are homeported in Bahrain, arrived in Singapore this week.
By Riley Ceder
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The US Navy decommissioned Middle East minesweepers last year. Here’s what they did.
Four Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships stationed in Bahrain were decommissioned in 2025 after each serving for over 30 years.
By Riley Ceder
Navy and Coast Guard team up to rescue cruise ship passenger
With winds measured at 25 mph and seas up to 10 feet high, the Sea Hawk crew hoisted the passenger and transported him to medical care, Coast Guard officials said.
By Carl Prine
This is how the US military is protecting the Strait of Hormuz.
To bolster the security of US warships at sea operating in tight waterways around the Middle East, the U.S. conducted tests in December using Griffin missiles fired from a U.S. vessel.
By Shawn Snow
WWII Army Air Forces pilot still showing them how to drive the ball
Retired Air Force Maj. Julius Okrzesik, 99, who flew P-51 Mustangs during World War II, can still navigate his way around a golf course.
By Ileana Najarro, Tampa Bay Times
New for 2020: Black Sea patrols have remained consistent under Trump
U.S. Navy patrols to the Black Sea have remained consistent over the last several years despite testimony during President Trump’s impeachment hearings that Trump ordered the maneuvers be canceled.
By Shawn Snow
Russian spy ship lurking off US coast conducting ‘unsafe operation’
Adm. James Foggo III, the commander of U.S. Naval Forces Europe and U.S. Naval Forces Africa, told reporters Wednesday that the Russian spy ship was operating a “couple hundred” miles off the East Coast.
By Shawn Snow
More than 100 buildings to be evacuated on Okinawa’s Camp Kinser to remove 500 pound WWII bomb
During a construction project the base found an unexploded 500 pound bomb that had been dropped on the island during World War II.
By Philip Athey
Pearl Harbor vet’s interment to be last on sunken Arizona
This weekend, divers will place Bruner’s ashes inside the battleship’s wreckage, which sits in Pearl Harbor where it sank during the attack 78 years ago that thrust the United States into World War II.
Multinational MEUs? Why US and Spanish Marines are storming beaches in Ibiza
It's a building block to creating A mutlinational force designed similarly to an Amphibious Ready Group-Marine Expeditionary Unit.
By Philip Athey
Explainer: Why does the US pay so much for the defense of its allies?
The Trump administration is demanding that Japan and South Korea pay more for hosting U.S. troops stationed in those countries.
By Michael E. Flynn, Kansas State University; Carla Martinez Machain, Kansas State University; and Michael A. Allen, Boise State University
Tassafaronga: Night of the Long Lances
Sailor recollects when his cruiser began sinking into a warm and unforgiving sea.
By Linda Ann Hughes, World War II