Medical Officer Recruiter of the Year: How One Navy Nurse Found Purpose
For Lt. Cmdr. Pamela Resurreccion, the decision to join the Navy Reserve began with a desire for growth. After years working as an emergency trauma nurse, she realized she had reached a point of comfort. Her routine no longer pushed her skills, leadership, or sense of purpose. She wanted more and found it in the U.S. Navy.
U.S., Republic of Korea Conduct Maritime Counter Special Operations Forces Exercise
The U.S. Navy and Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy conducted a Maritime Counter Special Operations
USS Asheville Returns Home to Naval Base Guam
NAVAL BASE GUAM (Nov. 18, 2025) — Los Angeles–class fast-attack submarine USS Asheville (SSN 758) returned to Naval Base Guam, reaffirming the submarine force’s forward presence and readiness across the Indo-Pacific, Nov. 18, 2025.
Coast Guard reverses course, calls swastikas and nooses ‘hate symbols’
The U.S. Coast Guard has released a new, firmer policy addressing the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses just hours after it was publicly revealed that it made plans to describe them as “potentially divisive” — a term that prompted outcry from lawmakers and advocates. “Divisive or hate symbols and flags are prohibited,” the latest Coast Guard policy, released late Thursday, declared...[Read More]
Private housing companies let troops deck the halls early for holidays
Privatized military housing providers are no longer standing in the way of service members and their families who want to make their homes merry and bright before Thanksgiving. Hunt Military Communities, the nation’s largest privatized military housing provider, has amended its policy to allow residents to display outdoor holiday decorations beginning Nov. 1 and continuing through Jan. 10, the com...[Read More]
New Coast Guard policy calls swastikas ‘potentially divisive’
The U.S. Coast Guard is poised to change some of its language and policies surrounding the display of hate symbols like swastikas and nooses as well as how personnel report hate incidents. A Coast Guard message in 2020 from then-Commandant Karl Schultz said symbols like swastikas and nooses were “widely identified with oppression or hatred” and called their display “a potential hate incident.” The...[Read More]
Lawmakers urge troops to refuse illegal orders in video
Democratic representatives released a video on social media on Tuesday pleading with service members and intelligence officers to reject illegal orders amid ongoing U.S. military strikes against alleged-drug carrying vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. These representatives — who all served in the military or intelligence community — said that the Trump administration was pitting t...[Read More]
Lawmakers urge troops to refuse illegal orders in video
Democratic representatives released a video on social media on Tuesday pleading with service members and intelligence officers to reject illegal orders amid ongoing U.S. military strikes against alleged-drug carrying vessels in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific Ocean. These representatives — who all served in the military or intelligence community — said that the Trump administration was pitting t...[Read More]
VA extends ‘legacy’ caregiver benefits through 2028
The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to extend benefits through 2028 to veteran caregivers who faced removal from a VA program that provides them health care and compensation. The VA announced Thursday that ‘legacy’ participants of the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers — those who had applied before and were accepted after Oct. 1, 2020 and those who were enrolled before...[Read More]
End of an era: The Dust Devils and one final homage to the Harrier
NAVAL AIR WEAPONS STATION CHINA LAKE, California — The “Dust Devils” of the Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX-31) brought the AV-8B Harrier’s decades-long testing era to an official close this fall with one final sortie flown by the squadron’s last remaining Harrier pilot, Technical Director James “Jimbo” Coppersmith. Warm desert winds drifted gently from the southwest as Coppersmith pre...[Read More]
End of an era: The Dust Devils and one final homage to the Harrier
NAVAL AIR WEAPONS STATION CHINA LAKE, California — The “Dust Devils” of the Navy’s Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX-31) brought the AV-8B Harrier’s decades-long testing era to an official close this fall with one final sortie flown by the squadron’s last remaining Harrier pilot, Technical Director James “Jimbo” Coppersmith. Warm desert winds drifted gently from the southwest as Coppersmith pre...[Read More]
Pentagon must do better to safeguard public information, GAO warns
The Defense Department continues to encounter cyber security vulnerabilities stemming from publicly accessible information shared across digital platforms, a recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office warns. The report, released on Nov. 17, highlights security lapses across 10 DOD components linked to digital activity from personal and government devices, online communications an...[Read More]