Historic U.S. Naval Visit Reinforces U.S.-Côte d’Ivoire Security Partnership
Adm. George M. Wikoff, commander of U.S. Naval Forces Africa (NAVAF), visited Abidjan this week, marking the highest-level U.S. Navy visit to the country and underscoring the growing strength of the U.S.–Côte d’Ivoire defense partnership.
Future Navy Intelligence Officer to Get Master’s Degree at Age 19
At an age when most are just starting college, Avery Cloutier is finishing grad school, ready to tackle his next challenge, OCS and the U.S. Navy.
US Navy is reviewing cost of future Ford-class carriers to ensure they ‘make sense’
Recently ousted Navy Secretary John Phelan told reporters Tuesday that the service is analyzing the cost and design of two aircraft carriers it is set to procure in the coming years. Phelan, who left his position as the civilian leader of the U.S. Navy on Wednesday shortly after delivering remarks to the media at the Sea-Air-Space symposium in Washington, said the service was looking at the future...[Read More]
Exercise Obangame Express Returns to Cameroon for 15th Iteration
Obangame Express 2026 (OE 26), sponsored by U.S. Africa Command and conducted by the U.S. Navy’s Sixth Fleet, held an opening ceremony for the exercise April 23, 2026 in host nation Cameroon.
What Led to Navy Secretary John Phelan Losing His Job? What We Know
Phelan, a big GOP donor in 2024, is out and becomes the first top military official to depart the Trump administration.
US Marine Corps, Navy join forces to combat insufficient amphibious fleet size
The U.S. Marine Corps and Navy are collaborating to boost the nation’s current inadequate amphibious fleet size, according to the top-ranked U.S. Marine Corps officer. Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Eric Smith said at the 2026 Sea-Air-Space Conference during a Tuesday keynote that the two services are working together with a “unified sense of purpose” to increase the size and availability of the U.S...[Read More]
‘Military Child of the Year’ Awards Honor Seven Teens from Seven Services
Lila Morgan is 18 years old but has written a book, started a nonprofit, and is graduating college soon. She credits her military father for inspiring her.
USS Blue Ridge conducts consecutive combined maritime operations with allies in Western Pacific Ocean
U.S. 7th Fleet flagship Blue Ridge-class amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19) conducted a
Used as an ‘individual target’ by the Germans, this Medal of Honor recipient kept up the fight
On Nov. 8, 1942, the United States opened a new front against Germany, Italy and Vichy France when its forces landed in Morocco and Algeria. At the same time, the British First and Eighth armies advanced against the receding Axis forces from the east. On March 10, 1943, an ailing Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was evacuated to Germany, leaving Afrika Korps under the command of Generaloberst Hans-Jürge...[Read More]
Push to identify remains of POWS who endured Bataan Death March, hell ships
More than 80 years later, the remains of U.S. POWs buried as “unknowns,” or entombed in the holds of Japanese “hell ships” sunk by U.S. warplanes and submarines, have started coming home to families who kept their memories alive. In an extraordinary and ongoing effort, specialists from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, using new techniques including “next generation” DNA sequencing, have resu...[Read More]
John Phelan out as Navy secretary, Pentagon says
John Phelan is out as the secretary of the Navy, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. Phelan, who this week attended the Navy League’s annual Sea-Air-Space symposium in Washington, is departing the role “effective immediately,” Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell announced. U.S. Navy Undersecretary Hung Cao, a former Virginia Senate candidate and special operations veteran, will assume the role of ...[Read More]
Navy Veteran Charged in Series of Atlanta-Area Shootings Dies in Jail
Authorities say a man charged in a string of shootings near Atlanta that left three people dead has died in jail.