In October 1966, the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Oriskany was preparing for flight ops off Vietnam when a routine ordnance evolution turned catastrophic. -Two sailors accidentally ignited a Mk 24 ...

WASHINGTON – The sentinel came to a stop near the end of the long black mat. Motionless, seeming not even to draw a breath, ...

Faith Bottum’s “Life Lessons From the Cutting Edge” (op-ed, Nov. 24) reminded me of a similarly mundane awakening. It was 1972 at Navy boot camp, where we were taught the proper way to fold our ...

The Navy’s record-breaking recruiting numbers translated to the service’s highest production of basic training graduates in a decade with the graduation of sailors from Training Group 52, the Navy ...

Despite a historic recruiting year, the Navy will need to continue to bring in more junior sailors to fully man at-sea billets, a problem that will likely continue into the next two to three years and ...

The yelling, the sweat, the thousand-yard stares — these movies either nailed the chaos or missed it. Every service member has a story about navigating boot camp — the sand, the blisters, the broken ...

Chief Watertender Oscar V. Peterson spent 21 years at sea before May 7, 1942, when Japanese bombs turned the USS Neosho into ...

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As the Detroit Lions barrel toward a Thanksgiving Day game with the Green Bay Packers, some die-hard fans may be fantasizing about what it would be like to be on the field themselves: calling plays ...

What Happens When Your Navy Federal CD Matures? Navy Federal CDs automatically renew upon maturity. Once your CD matures, you will have a 21-day grace period to make changes to the CD or withdraw ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Stephen Siff, Miami University (THE CONVERSATION) As the Detroit Lions barrel toward a ...