That Time US Navy and North Korean Sailors Teamed Up to Battle Somali Pirates While the United States isn't specifically required to help North Korea, an important part of the U.S. Navy's ongoing mission...
A Chinese Woman Led the Largest and Most Successful Pirate Fleet in History While Caribbean pirates like Blackbeard could boast a handful of ships and hundreds of men. Ching Shih commanded an entire...
Sunken World War II British Warships Reportedly Raided by Pirates for Scrap The wrecks of four ships that were sunk in the waters off Malaysia and Indonesia have recently been looted for scrap metal.
Ex-SEALs Found Dead Aboard 'Captain Phillips' Ship Two former Navy SEALs working as security contractors aboard the Maersk Alabama were found dead Tuesday aboard the container...
Former SEALs Found Dead on 'Captain Phillips' Ship Two former SEALs working security have been found dead aboard the container ship depicted in the movie "Captain Phillips."
US Nuclear Sub Returns Flying Pirate Flag, Sparking Speculation One of the United States' most advanced nuclear submarines returned to port in Washington state this week flying a Jolly...
Navy Destroyer Howard Aids Iranian Fishermen After Pirate Attack U.S. Navy and Japanese forces joined up to save an Iranian fishing boat that was reportedly attacked by pirates off Yemen.
Class-Action Suit over Limits on Combat-Related Disability Pay Goes Before Supreme Court The Supreme Court will hear arguments in Soto v. United States, a case that challenges a six-year limit on back pay for...
Veterans Reunite with 'Precious Cargo' 50 Years After the Fall of Saigon One woman's quest to say ‘thank you’ led to the colonel who ran her refugee camp and the aircraft maintainer who may have...
48 Hours with Marines and Soldiers on the US Southern Border Amid President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown, military assets and personnel are increasingly being relied upon for a...
'Everything Is on the Table': Army Eyeing Expansion of Privatized Barracks As part of a pilot program, construction is expected to begin this summer on a new privately managed facility at Fort Irwin...
Army Suspends Fort McCoy's First Female Commander Amid Trump Portrait Display Controversy The incident, which sparked a wave of right-wing criticism, centered on the base's chain of command wall display -- a common...
![](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2023-03/ching%20shih%201200.jpg?itok=0MBEI37y "Sometimes called, Zheng Yi Sao or "Wife of Zheng Yi," she's known to history as Ching Shih for what she accomplished once he died.")
![Marines at the border wall](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-04/staff-border-wall-marines-wire-1800.jpg?itok=a3dIOHTu "Marines were deployed here to reinforce barriers during President Donald Trump's first term, but they were not armed with the long guns their Guardian Angels carry now, NPR reported. An old policy from the very unit these Marines come from said Guardian Angels must watch over their units' security with an "ambush mentality." (Drew F. Lawrence/Military.com)")
