NCC Harsh

The Pentagon has stood up a new operation to focus solely on permanent fixes for the decades-old problems of damaged and lost household goods encountered by service members and families moving to new duty stations. With military moving season just around the corner, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday announced the establishment of the Personal Property Activity, elevating the importance of o...[Read More]

Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthi rebels threatened new attacks on ships traveling through the Red Sea corridor, likely trying to back Iran as it worried about an approaching U.S. aircraft carrier after President Donald Trump threatened military action over its crackdown on nationwide protests.

The relieved commodore lost the “trust and confidence” of superiors, will retain a staff position.

This is the first time a U.S. Navy warship has docked at Cambodia’s Ream Naval Base since its Chinese-funded renovation was completed last year.

Gen. Mohammad Pakpour, warned the United States and Israel “to avoid any miscalculation.”

The U.S. Navy announced that it is prohibiting the consumption of an organic opioid, along with several other substances, in a recent service-wide message. The Navy announced in a Jan. 14 memo that service members were barred from using kratom, mitragynine and 7-hydroxymitragynine. “Protecting service member welfare and readiness is paramount to maintaining an effective fighting force,” the messag...[Read More]

Brown water issues are reportedly burdening residents of military housing on certain bases as the military continues its campaign to improve service member quality of life. Personnel who live in base housing have long cited struggles with lackluster living conditions, but recent photos from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst show a alarming trend of water discoloration. At least four pictures of mur...[Read More]

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941 had drama aplenty to go around, but one of the standouts did not involve a battleship, but a humble repair ship moored nearby. Capt. Cassin Young’s actions that day gave a new meaning to the slogan “Don’t give up the ship,” though later, aboard a heavy cruiser, he would carry those words to a watery grave. Young was born in Washington, D.C. on Ma...[Read More]

Military personnel at Naval Support Activity Bahrain initiated a $15.8 million unaccompanied housing modernization project on Jan. 12, according to a Navy release. The facelift, done in partnership with the Public Works Department Bahrain, fulfills the Navy’s “Sailors First” initiative and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s Barracks Task Force initiative. The former was a set of objectives provided ...[Read More]

I was in southern Afghanistan in May 2014 when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated near me while covering a routine patrol as a public affairs specialist. It was something I had a dozen times before, but in a flash I was on my back, ears ringing, lungs full of dust. The blast knocked me out cold. When I came to, nothing was where it had been. The explosion left me with a traumati...[Read More]