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The Navy plans to deploy its new MQ-4C Triton long-range surveillance unmanned aircraft to the Middle East in 2016, Rear Adm. Sean Buck, commander of...
An aircrew assigned to Patrol Squadron 47, from Naval Air Station Sigonella, Sicily, helped rescue 68 people adrift in the Mediterranean Sea more than 80 miles from the southwest coast of Malta.
South Korea has reinforced the equipment and training of navy units in charge of defending the seas from pirates after they successfully rescued a freighter from Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden last January.
On the surface, the Navy's cherished fleet of 11 active aircraft carriers seems safe from budget slashers. But sources say the Navy will be down to 10 or even nine carriers within the next five years.
The jobless rate for Iraq and Afghanistan veterans is 13.1 percent, up from 11.1 percent a year ago. The December unemployment rate was 4.5 percentage points higher than the national rate.
The United States and Israel have postponed a joint military exercise due to be held in the coming weeks until later in the year, an Israeli security source says.
The top U.S. military commander is scheduled for talks in Israel this week, Israel says, at a time when the United States is concerned Israel might be preparing to attack Iran.
The all-Indian crew of a chemical oil tanker that was hijacked by Somali pirates in August last year has been released, along with the ship, Indian authorities said.
Created at Kennedy’s behest in 1962 to counter Communist guerrillas in Vietnam, the former World War II frogmen have transformed into one of the U.S. military’s elite forces.
The general state of the Navy's shipbuilding programs is good, two senior officials said, and construction programs apparently will not be slashed to meet an expected Pentagon-wide $263 billion cut in spending.