'Codename Nemo': How a WWII Aircraft Carrier Became the First Ship to Capture an Enemy at Sea Since the War of 1812 By June 1944, Capt. Daniel Gallery and the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal were in the middle of their second hunter-killer...
Pentagon Confident It Can Still Defend Against Houthi Attacks Without a Carrier in the Region The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower strike group, which has been deployed for more than seven months after two extensions, has left...
New Parking to Alleviate Tough Sailor Commutes at Newport News Shipyard After Spate of Suicides In the wake of a spate of suicides aboard an aircraft carrier in 2022, the Navy and Newport News Shipbuilding announced they...
USS George Washington Heads to Japan, Ending Troubled Shipyard Stay That Included String of Suicides The aircraft carrier USS George Washington is finally underway to its new homeport in Japan, following six arduous years in a...
Navy Suspends Search for Sailors Missing in Plane Crash Eight sailors were rescued after a C-2A Greyhound transport aircraft went down about 500 nautical miles southeast of Okinawa.
The Navy’s Short-Lived Plan to Dominate the Skies with Flying Aircraft Carriers Developed by the Navy's lighter-than-air program, the Akron and its sister ship, the USS Macon, were filled with helium and...
Airstrikes Pound Houthis in Yemen as US and UK Retaliate for Red Sea Attacks on Shipping The U.S. and U.K. conducted strikes that were launched from aircraft, ships and submarines, destroying multiple targets in...
Sailor Who Died by Suicide on Roosevelt Carrier Faced Lack of Resources, Poor Leadership by Enlisted Supervisors A Navy investigation of a suicide aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier last year has revealed deadly...
'A 9/11-like Event': Navy Report on Carrier Suicides Cites Missed Warning Signs, Leadership Failures Investigators found that the ship had the highest number of suicide-related behaviors from 2017 to 2019 when compared to all...
Navy Investigation of Carrier Water Contamination Finds Crew, Equipment Failures The investigation found the incidents of contamination with E. coli and jet fuel were exacerbated by actions of crew members...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...