The Department of the Navy will not reinstate Capt. Brett Crozier, who lost his command of the USS Theodore Roosevelt after raising concerns about a coronavirus outbreak aboard the aircraft carrier.
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A shooting at a Texas naval air station that wounded a sailor and left the gunman dead Thursday is being investigated as “terrorism-related,” the FBI said, but divulged few details.
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A White House military aide — reportedly part of a unit working closely alongside President Donald Trump — has tested positive for coronavirus but Trump has not been infected, a spokesman said Thursday.
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(CN) — The Pentagon made history this week when it released three grainy, black-and-white videos of unidentified flying objects, saying the footage was real and had been taken by U.S. Navy fighter-jet pilots.
Read moreOrdering a detailed investigation of the Covid-19 outbreak aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the acting head of the Navy on Wednesday said the preliminary look raised “unanswered questions.”
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The top officer in the Navy has reportedly recommended the reinstatement of an aircraft carrier captain who was fired over his demand for swift action to protect his crew aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt from an outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
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The Navy’s top admiral soon will decide the fate of the aircraft carrier captain who was fired after pleading for commanders to move faster to safeguard his coronavirus-infected crew on the USS Theodore Roosevelt.
Read moreTask & Purpose, a military- and veteran-focused digital media company, sued the Department of Defense for emails to and from Capt. Brett Crozier, whose request for help in a Covid-19 epidemic on the USS Roosevelt aircraft carrier led to his removal, then the resignation of the acting secretary of the Navy who removed him.
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A member of the crew of the coronavirus-infected USS Theodore Roosevelt warship died Monday of complications related to the disease, the Navy said.
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WASHINGTON (CN) — Acting secretary of the U.S. Navy Thomas Modly stepped down Tuesday following the release of leaked audio
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The captain of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier facing a growing outbreak of the coronavirus on his ship was fired by Navy leaders who said he created a panic by sending his memo pleading for help to too many people.
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Nearly 3,000 sailors aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier where the coronavirus has spread will be taken off the ship by Friday, Navy officials said as they struggle to quarantine crew members.
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A train engineer at the Port of Los Angeles was arrested on federal charges after he intentionally crashed a locomotive near the U.S. Navy hospital ship Mercy, believing it signaled a looming government takeover disguised as a response to the Covid-19 outbreak, prosecutors said Wednesday.
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A U.S. Navy hospital ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles on Friday as medical facilities in Southern California prepare for a surge of Covid-19 patients in the coming weeks.
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Backed-up toilets on two U.S. Navy ships will cost $400,000 per acid flush to fix, according to a government watchdog report that outlines the costs of poor planning.
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Land developer Five Point Holdings hit Tetra Tech and the U.S. government with separate lawsuits for special damages Thursday for their roles in the Hunters Point Naval shipyard scandal.
Read moreA federal court in Pennsylvania dismissed two families’ case against the Navy brought after they discovered the Navy’s facilities had contaminated their private wells with chemicals. The substances, perfluorooctane sulfonate and perfluorooctanoic acid, are not considered “hazardous substances,” under the Hazardous Sites Cleanup Act.
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West Point cadets and U.S. Naval Academy midshipmen flashed what looked like a sideways OK finger gesture during a weekend TV broadcast of the Army-Navy football game — a possible white supremacy signal that the Navy said it will investigate.
Read moreThe Saudi gunman who killed three people at the Pensacola naval base had apparently gone on Twitter shortly before the shooting to blast U.S. support of Israel and accuse America of being anti-Muslim, a U.S. official said Sunday as the FBI confirmed it is operating on the assumption the attack was an act of terrorism.
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