USNS Comfort Returns Home After Continuing Promise 2025
NORFOLK, Va. – The Mercy-class hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) returned to Naval Station Norfolk (NSN), Aug. 17, 2025, marking the successful completion of Continuing Promise 2025 (CP25). Comfort returned to NSN after a 79-day deployment, providing medical care, humanitarian assistance and strengthening relationships with partner nations in the Caribbean and South and Central America.
Navy Taps Senior Fleet Forces Adviser as Next Top Enlisted Sailor
Fleet Master Chief John Perryman, who has been the senior enlisted adviser for Fleet Forces Command since 2021, has been chosen to succeed James Honea as master chief petty officer of the Navy when Honea retires in September.
What to know about Zelenskyy’s meeting with Trump
U.S. President Donald Trump is set to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Monday to discuss how to end Russia’s three-year war in Ukraine. Months of U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting haven’t made headway, but the stakes have risen since Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday. After that summit, Trump abandoned th...[Read More]
Navy amphib readiness dips as sailors, Marines deploy for Caribbean
The readiness rate of amphibious ships critical to Marine missions has dropped to 41%, a defense official tells Military Times, as thousands of Marines and sailors are being sent to Latin America and the Caribbean amid the Trump administration’s ramped-up effort to combat drug cartels. The lack of available amphibious warfare ships, known as amphibs, resulted in a more than five-month gap in Marin...[Read More]
Navy logbook that recounted Pearl Harbor recovered after 84 years
One man’s trash is the National Archives’ treasure. After more than 80 years, an old logbook containing the initial descriptions of U.S. vessels after the Japanese attack on Navy Yard Pearl Harbor in 1941 was recovered, the National Archives recently announced. The logbook covers the 16 months before and after the attack that was the catalyst for the U.S. entry into World War II. Its whereabouts c...[Read More]
AI Is About to Radically Alter Military Command Structures that Haven’t Changed Much Since Napoleon’s Army
AI agents — autonomous, goal-oriented software powered by large language models — can automate routine staff tasks, compress decision timelines and enable smaller, more resilient command posts. They can shrink the staff while also making it more effective.
3 GOP-led states to send hundreds of National Guard troops to DC
Three Republican-led states said Saturday that they were deploying hundreds of National Guard members to the nation’s capital to bolster the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in Washington through a federal crackdown on crime and homelessness. West Virginia said it was deploying 300 to 400 Guard troops, while South Carolina pledged 200 and Ohio says it will send 150 in the coming ...[Read More]
3 GOP-led states to send hundreds of National Guard troops to DC
Three Republican-led states said Saturday that they were deploying hundreds of National Guard members to the nation’s capital to bolster the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in Washington through a federal crackdown on crime and homelessness. West Virginia said it was deploying 300 to 400 Guard troops, while South Carolina pledged 200 and Ohio says it will send 150 in the coming ...[Read More]
Navy Is Retiring the Last of its Storied Cruisers. To Veterans, They Were ‘the Pinnacle of Naval Power’
As the Navy nears its 250th anniversary in October, there’s a lot of reminiscing going on about the fleet. Much of it involves cruisers — renowned for shielding aircraft carriers, attacking distant enemies, flushing submarines from the deep, and roaming the seas as lone wolves.
USS George Washington Strike Group arrives in Guam, Saipan
APRA HARBOR, Guam – Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73), flagship of Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 5, embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, and cruiser USS Robert Smalls (CG 62) arrived in Guam for a scheduled port visit, August 17, while destroyer USS Shoup (DDG 86) visits Saipan.
Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group Transits Strait of Dover
NORTH SEA – The world’s largest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), and Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Mahan (DDG 72), USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), and USS Bainbridge (DDG 96), all assigned to Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group (GRFCSG), transited the Strait of Dover into the North Sea, Aug. 17.
West Virginia sends National Guard to DC at Trump team’s request
Members of the West Virginia National Guard will be deployed the streets of the nation’s capital as part of the Trump administration’s effort to overhaul policing in the District of Columbia through a federal crackdown on crime and homelessness. Gov. Patrick Morrisey, R-W.Va., announced Saturday that he was sending 300 to 400 members of his state’s National Guard to nearby Washington at the Republ...[Read More]