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A senior U.S. Navy officer has pleaded guilty to killing his wife, nearly a year after her body was found in a Japanese hotel, and now faces decades in prison. Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Olsen pleaded guilty to the unpremeditated murder of his wife, Jessica Olsen, 37, at a Navy legal hearing Wednesday in San Diego, California, according to Navy spokesperson Cmdr. Paul Macapagal. Christopher Olsen will ...[Read More]

Kathryn Sullivan, a three-time Guinness World Records winner and the first American woman to walk in space, has been selected by the Space Foundation to receive the Gen. James E. Hill Lifetime Space Achievement Award, the nonprofit’s highest honor.

Navy Secretary Phelan visited Guam earlier this month and was “appalled” after seeing the conditions of an Air Force barracks where junior service members were living, prompting an ongoing Navy-wide inspection of more than 100,000 barracks units.

Months after sending a letter to families forecasting the change, the Navy has formally announced the revamp of its Exceptional Family Member Program by removing the categories that were a key aspect of the program and instead moving to an “individualized approach for case management,” according to a Navy message released Monday.

A Navy buddy of doomed helicopter pilot Seankese “Sean” Johnson said he doubts the chopper crashed into the Hudson River simply because it ran out of gas.

It was hard to miss Boatswain’s Mate 1st Class Ahmed El Haroun among the throngs of uniformed sailors shuttling between sessions at the Surface Navy Association’s annual conference near Washington. Over his enlisted “cracker jack” dress blues, El Haroun wore an elaborately knotted white boatswain’s mate’s lanyard, a traditional decoration he’d made himself over the course of his first deployment t...[Read More]

Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Rumaldo Valdez, aka “Duck, ” was charged in a 12-page criminal complaint filed May 16.