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Military historian hobbiest Ron Hallock neals at the graveside WWII veteran Eugene Kruck at Riverside National Cemetery Saturday in Riverside, CA.

Naval Air Station Key West Cmdr. Pat Lefere likely won't be out of work for long when he retires next month.

Pre-Commissioning Unit Minnesota , the nation's newest and most advanced nuclear-powered attack submarine, moored May 16 at Huntington Ingalls Industry's Newport News Shipbuilding following its successful completion of Alpha and Bravo sea trials.

Applied Integration, based in Stokesley , North Yorkshire, has secured a multi-million pound deal to design and develop control systems for HMS Agamemnon and HMS Ajax.

The U.S. Naval Brig is once again being mentioned as a leading alternative to put terror detainees on trial after President Barack Obama this week rekindled his push to shut down the terror-suspect holding site at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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These photos of San Francisco were taken through the periscope of the U.S. Navy submarine U.S.S. Catfish back in 1951.

President Barack Obama challenged graduates of the U.S. Naval Academy to uphold the honor of the armed forces, saying reports of sexual assaults in the military and misconduct on the battlefield threaten to tarnish the public's trust.

The annual Rockford Memorial Day Service will be held on Saturday, May 25 at 3 p.m. at the Rockford Methodist Church in the Historic Village of Rockford.

The Russian government is ready to step in to sort out the crisis in Russian naval shipbuilding which is threatening to derail the defense procurement program, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said on Friday.

'Jarvis', a 378-foot High Endurance Cutter homeported in Alameda, decommissioned & transferred to the Bangladesh navy as the 'BNS Somudra Joy'. The signing over ceremony took place on Coast Guard Island in Alameda.

CLIFTON - In anticipation of Memorial Day, a City native shared one family's story of service and sacrifice by revisiting what life was like in Clifton 70 years ago during the Second World War.

Memorial Day Focus Spotlight on Military Chaplains Transitioning in the Marketplace "When we interview veterans to possibly hire them as a Marketplace Chaplain, we know they have experience and have performed their chaplain duties under stressful conditions," said Michigan-area Marketplace Chaplains' Division Director Greg Duvall, a West Point ... (more)

Defense contractors who showered the Navy with bribes will spend three years behind bars and pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in restitution, under sentences handed down in federal court.

The President of the United States takes pride in presenting the SILVER STAR MEDAL to David Skolak, Interior Communications Electrician Fireman, United States Navy for service as set forth in the following CITATION: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in connection with the armed attack on USS LIBERTY in the Eastern Mediterranean on 8 June ... (more)

Vice Adm. Gerald Beaman, center, commander, U.S. Third Fleet, returns a salute with Capt.

CQ Roll Call Defense and Foreign Policy Editor Kevin Whitelaw alerts us to the Navy's announcement that one of its next destroyers will be named for the late Hawaii Sen.

The City Council has moved to take ownership of about 1,370 acres of the former Alameda Naval Air Station from the federal government, the first phase in the eventual transfer of the entire site to the city.

The Navy plans to deploy its new MQ-4C Triton long-range surveillance unmanned aircraft to the Middle East in 2016, Rear Adm.

"The opinions or assertions contained herein are the private views of the authors and are not to be construed as official or as reflecting the views of the US Department of the Army, the US Department of Defense, the Department of the Navy or naval services at large." The caveat refers to a case note in the medical journal Endoscopy , regarding the ... (more)