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This undated photo, provided by <em>Stars and Stripes</em>, shows Cameron Yaste, commanding officer of the destroyer USS John McCain, firing a rifle with a backwards scope.

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Navy commander relieved of duty after photo showed him firing rifle with scope backward

Cameron Yaste, the commander of a Navy destroyer in the Middle East, has been relieved of duty about four months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with a scope mounted backward.

September 04, 2024
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This image shows Capt. John Sax, one of five U.S. Marines killed in 2022 when their MV-22B Osprey crashed in California. Over the last two years, four Osprey crashes have killed a total of 20 service members. On Wednesday, June 12, 2024, the House subcommittee on National Security, the Border and Foreign Affairs will hold a hearing into the Osprey's safety record and Pentagon management of the program.

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  • National Security

As Congress scrutinizes the Osprey, families balance grief with pilots' love for it

Families of service members lost in crashes say that if the Osprey is going to keep flying they want Bell Flight, Boeing and the Pentagon's V-22 joint program office to make the aircraft safe.

June 11, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
U.S. Navy ships travel through the Bab al-Mandeb strait, which connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden and the Indian Ocean, in August.

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  • Middle East

Yemen's Houthis launch their largest Red Sea aerial attack, but no damage is reported

Drones and missiles targeted shipping in the sea, but ships from the U.S. and British navies shot down the projectiles. No damage was reported. The rebels say they aim to stop Israel's war on Hamas.

January 10, 2024
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  • The Associated Press
The U.S. freed a close ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in exchange for the release of 10 Americans imprisoned in the South American country and the return of fugitive defense contractor Leonard Francis known as "Fat Leonard." Francis is at the center of a massive Pentagon bribery scandal, the Biden administration announced Wednesday.

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  • National Security

Who is 'Fat Leonard' and how did he end up as part of the Venezuelan prisoner swap?

The infamous Malaysian businessman Leonard Glenn Francis is being extradited to the U.S. Here's everything you need to know about the bribery scandal that brought down dozens of Navy officials.

December 21, 2023
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  • Vanessa Romo
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  • Middle East

Houthi missiles strike commercial ships in Red Sea, while U.S. warship downs drones

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels launched a series of attacks on vessels in the Red Sea, as well as launching drones and missiles targeting Israel as it wages war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

December 03, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Jamie Frederick speaks to reporters about the search for the Titan submersible on Wednesday in Boston, Mass.

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  • National

The U.S. Navy heard the likely implosion of the missing Titan sub on Sunday

The Navy, which was part of the unified command hunting for the Titan submersible, said it had acoustic data "consistent with an implosion" on Sunday at the start of a five-day search.

June 23, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
The USS Chancellorsville has been renamed the USS Robert Smalls, to honor the enslaved man who stole a Confederate battleship in the Civil War and delivered to the Union forces, loaded with weapons. The USS Robert Smalls is shown here off the Japanese island of Iwo To, on its way to honor the fallen service members of the World War II battle of Iwo Jima.

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  • National Security

A Navy ship named for a Confederate victory now honors a Black Union hero

The Navy has renamed the USS Chancellorsville, a name honoring a Confederate victory, to the USS Robert Smalls, after an enslaved man who escaped the South by stealing a Confederate steamship.

April 12, 2023
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  • Quil Lawrence
Sailors inventory urea and ammonium perchlorate found on a dhow intercepted in the Gulf of Oman. The U.S. Navy says it found 70 tons of a missile fuel component hidden among bags of fertilizer aboard a ship bound to Yemen from Iran.

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  • Middle East

U.S. Navy seizes 70 tons of Iranian missile fuel from a sailboat to Yemen

The load — enough for a dozen medium-range ballistic missiles — was hidden among bags of fertilizer on a wooden ship called a dhow. It likely was bound for Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

November 15, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Satellite imagery from Friday appears to show dolphin pens at the entrance to Sevastopol's harbor. The naval base there is important to the Russian military because of its proximity to the Crimean Peninsula.

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  • World

A Russian naval base is defended by dolphins. It's not as unusual as it sounds

Citing satellite imagery, a submarine analyst says Russia's navy is deploying dolphins to defend a crucial base off Crimea. Russia and the U.S. have run marine-mammal training programs for decades.

April 29, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks onstage at the Fourth Annual Berggruen Prize Gala celebrating 2019 Laureate Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in New York City. The U.S. Navy announced that a future ship will be named in her honor.

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  • National

Navy will name ship after the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The ship is part of the John Lewis class of replenishment oilers, which are named in honor of people who fought for civil and human rights, the Navy says.

April 02, 2022
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  • Jonathan Franklin
This Dec. 11, 2021 photo, provided by the U.S. Navy, shows a diving salvage unit at work in a contaminated water well near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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  • National

Thousands displaced from Oahu military base due to contamination in Navy water system

State health officials said samples from the Red Hill shaft contained petroleum levels 350 times the level considered safe. Some 3,000 military members and families were moved to temporary housing.

December 15, 2021
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  • Rachel Treisman
The U.S. Navy launches the USNS Harvey Milk in San Diego, Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021.

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  • National

The U.S. Navy has christened a ship named after slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk

Milk served in the Navy in the 1950s, but was discharged after being questioned about his sexual orientation. He became the first openly gay elected official in California before his death in 1978.

November 07, 2021
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  • Deepa Shivaram
The remains of five people and the wreckage of a U.S. Navy helicopter that crashed in the Pacific Ocean off California have been recovered, the Navy said in a statement on Tuesday. An MH-60S helicopter, similar the one pictured, and five crew members were recovered from a depth of about 5,300 feet below the surface of the ocean off the coast of San Diego on Friday.

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  • National

The Navy recovers the remains of 5 sailors off the coast of San Diego

Navy officials had been searching for the bodies of five crew members who died when an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter crashed into the sea on Aug. 31.

October 12, 2021
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  • Vanessa Romo
The USS Connecticut, seen near the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in 2016, collided on Oct. 2 with an unspecified underwater object in international waters in the South China Sea.

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  • National Security

A U.S. Navy submarine collides with an underwater object in the South China Sea

A Defense Department official says nearly a dozen sailors were injured in the incident aboard the USS Connecticut. The U.S. 7th Fleet says the sub's nuclear power plant was not affected.

October 08, 2021
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  • Scott Neuman
The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (left) passes through the Strait of Hormuz in November 2019.

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  • National

A Search Is Underway For 5 Crew Members Missing After A U.S. Navy Helicopter Crash

One crew member has been rescued, and five additional sailors aboard an aircraft carrier were injured, officials said. The crash occurred about 60 nautical miles off the coast of San Diego.

September 01, 2021
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  • Joe Hernandez
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