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A Christmas Eve Mass for the Living (See C. Fuss, pp. 68–69, December 2018)

Editor's Page

The Cyber Issue! This month’s focus is on cyber warfare, and many of the feature articles are fruits of the Naval Institute’s Cyber Essay...

Leadership Forum: Correct the Navy's Character Problem

The Navy should strengthen the character side of the Navy Leadership Development Framework to eradicate “goal sickness” and address long...

From Our Archive

“A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.” John Henrik...

World Naval Developments: F-35B Expands Definition of 'Aircraft Carriers'

The helicopter-carrying Japanese destroyers Izumo (DDH-183), shown, and Kaga (DDH-184) will undergo modifications to allow them to carry F-35B...

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Neller: Marines Need $3.5 Billion for Camp Lejeune Repairs, Despite MILCON Cuts for Border Spending

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The commandant of the Marine Corps hopes the Pentagon and Congress can find...

Coast Guard Secures $655 Million for Polar Security Cutters in New Budget Deal

The Coast Guard’s long-sought heavy icebreaker, the Polar Security Cutter, was among the...

WEST: Marines Expanding Sea Control Laboratory to Test Command and Control Concepts, Gear

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Marines are expanding its shore-based, sea control test lab to help...

Navy Eyes New Ship Repair Contracting to Boost On-Time Delivery; Public Yards’ Performance Improving

SAN DIEGO – Just 30 percent of the Navy’s destroyers come out of maintenance availabilities on...

Navy Rolls Out NavalX Agility Office to Connect Innovators With Support, Tools

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy rolled out a Naval Expeditions (NavalX) Agility Office that will...

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Naval History contributors range from professional historians to veterans to history buffs. But, for the magazine’s staff...

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Navy Divers Recover Oil from German Shipwreck

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As I Recall — 'The Defining Moment in My Life'

Admiral Smith spent part of his youth on a farm in Alabama. While a freshman at the University of Alabama, he decided to apply for the U.S....

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Decatur and the Prisoners

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Frederick Leiner’s “Killing the Prisoners” from the...

Armaments & Innovations—The 74—the Perfect Age-of-Sail Ship

In the spring of 1747, France sent a convoy of 30 merchantmen to bring reinforcements and supplies to its beleaguered troops in North America. The...

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Female Navy Recruits Get First 'Dixie Cup' Hats at Boot Camp

The Navy's Recruit Training Command at Great Lakes Illinois marked another milestone in efforts to make uniforms more gender-specific Monday when fema...

China aims to prepare military for battle by ending paid contract work

China has ordered its armed forces to end all paid outside work within three years as part of a push to make the world's largest standing military mor...

Navy: 8 Sailors Aboard Carrier USS Eisenhower Hurt During Landing

Eight sailors were injured aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower during an aircraft landing off Virginia's coast, the Navy said....

U.S., South Korea stage assault drill; North threatens to wipe out enemies

U.S. and South Korean troops staged a big amphibious landing exercise on Saturday, storming simulated North Korean beach defenses. ...

Marine Corps Wants Funding to Improve Security at Recruiting Centers

Ten months after a gunman opened fire in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Corps is still working to bolster the security of its recruiting officers....

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Fighting the Future AirSea Battle

Establishing air-support operations centers at sea is the key to defeating potential dynamic maritime threats.Uproar 11, a flight of two F/A-18E Super...

Expanding the Non-Kinetic Warfare Arsenal

To meet the challenges and threats of the information age, the Navy is realizing that cyberspace means a lot more than just the Internet.The definitio...

Oceans - Race to the Bottom of the Sea—Seven Miles Deep

In 2010 three groups announced plans to develop and send a manned submersible to the deepest place in the World Ocean, the almost seven-miles-down &ld...

The Transformation (Again!) of the Surface Navy

In the 1980s, the Tomahawk cruise missile expanded the surface Navy’s role; in the 2000s, new technologies continue to enhance surface warfare&r...

Maximizing Minimum Manning

The Navy can get more from less. Using fewer but better-prepared engineers will cut costs and improve readiness. The key is in the training.Few days p...

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Salty Goes to Admiral’s Mast

Salty Goes to Admiral’s Mast By The Salty Millennial The following is an excerpt from the non-judicial punishment proceedings of The Salty...

Cheer Up!: Naval Education is More Than a Classroom

This week, Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer announced the results of the Education for Seapower (E4S) Study, which conducted a “clean sheet”...

Do We Need a Flag Officer Public Affairs Stand Down?

It has been 18-months since the center point of the tragic 2017 in WESTPAC that begat the 100% avoidable death of 17 of our Sailors. Both legally...

A Tale of Two Ceremonies

3 May 2017 It was the best of crimes, it was the worst of crimes (sorry, I couldn’t resist!). Actually, it wasn’t a crime at all, at least...

In Search of an Onus, The Forest and Trees Have Blame to Spare

Last week saw the publication of two long-form pieces by the website ProPublica on the 2017 collisions at sea involving the USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62...

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CAC-7: Skeet for the Fleet

I am only 20 years old and the Soviets are going to shoot me down? That is NOT what I had in mind when our crew took off this morning! Like all...

A Step Forward

On 15 March 1947, one month to the day before Jackie Robinson became the first black player in baseball’s major leagues, John Wesley Lee Jr....

The Loss of the USS Macon, 12 February 1935

Following graduation from the Naval Academy in 1924, Harold B. Miller spent two years in the crew of the battleship USS California (BB-44)...

What to do when your commander burns his own perfectly good fleet?

If you ever find yourself in command of an invading army, and surrounded by a numerically superior enemy hell-bent on your destruction, it is...

From Vindictive to Dainty: The Extremes of Royal Navy Ship Names

The Royal Navy is steeped in tradition and history. Its mighty fleets were the envy of the world and enabled the British to run a global empire...

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Proceedings Magazine - June 2017 Vol. 143/6/1,372

Recent Honorary and Memorial Gifts Gifts of support to the Naval Institute have been made in the name of the following: In honor of: A. Denis Clift, by Keith Hahn Jennifer Grove, by Robert Rose, DDS LCDR Robert B. Leet, USNR (Ret.), by Tracy Jaquier...