Vincent Astor, Yachting Spy Vincent Astor's yacht, the Nourmahal, was among the largest private boats on the seas.
Thieves Are Stripping Sunken World War II Shipwrecks of Their Valuable Steel In 2017, a civilian search team discovered the wreck of the USS Indianapolis in a 600-mile swathe of the Pacific Ocean. The...
Marines Can't Count on Navy Ships to Carry Them to Global Emergencies, One of the Service's Top Generals Says The readiness issue comes down to several factors, including overuse of amphibious ships during the last 20-plus years of war...
Why This Navy Destroyer Flies This World War II-Era Battle Flag In honor of its namesake, the USS O'Kane doesn't just fly any old battle flag, but a replica of the "Battle Cat" flag that...
The Top 10 Military.com News Stories of 2023 All of these stories helped the military community understand what was happening, and helped some receive the care and...
Crew Shortages, Bad Mattresses Causing Navy Surface Sailors to Lose Shut-Eye, Watchdog Says In a report to Congress this month, the Government Accountability Office said the service is not ensuring sailors get enough...
The Navy Warship Forged with Steel from the World Trade Center Returns to New York for Veterans Day The Navy calls this latest USS New York "an instrument of freedom and peace," and its job is to deliver Marines and their...
Navy Presence Off Israel Grows as USS Mount Whitney Deploys to Region with Senior Admiral Aboard The Navy's fleet commander in Europe and the command-and-control ship USS Mount Whitney are deploying to the Eastern...
The Inside Story of How the Navy Spent Billions on the 'Little Crappy Ship' Littoral combat ships were supposed to launch the Navy into the future. Instead they broke down across the globe and many of...
Navy Denies Problem After USS Boxer Belches Smoke Plume as It Deploys from San Diego The Navy denied any issue with the amphibious assault ship, but video posted online by San Diego Web Cam, a social media...
Trump Is Renaming 7 Army Installations. Here Are the Stories Behind the Names Being Scrubbed. President Donald Trump's announcement is the administration's latest move in its concerted effort to shift the people and...
Veteran Who Fired at Gunman and Inadvertently Killed Utah Protester Was a Safety Volunteer, Organizers Say Police said that the permit for the protest did not specify that there would be armed security, and that the role and...
Air Force Lowered Annual Recruiting Goal Due to Budget Woes, But Still on Track to Hit Target This Month The Air Force had to reduce its target recruiting goal by several thousand airmen due to ongoing congressional budget delays...
‘They’re Taking Shirly’: An Army Sergeant Thought His Family Was Safe. Then, ICE Deported His Wife. For tens of thousands of U.S. service members with undocumented family members, there’s no guaranteed protection from...
Air Force's Bunker-Buster Bomb Could Take Out Iran Nuclear Facility, But Israel Hints at Other Options The Israeli campaign to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons will be considered a failure if the centrifuges deep...