Is Vice Adm. Doug Perry the fittest admiral of all? The Navy relieved then-Command Senior Chief Grisel Marrero from her post with the Manchester’s gold crew in September. The warship Carney returned home Sunday from a long and historic deployment fending off Houthi rebel attacks in the Middle East. Chief Hospital Corpsman Daniel D. McCracken died during a non-combat related incident on May 6. The destroyer passed through the waterway between mainland China and Taiwan on Wednesday, less than two weeks before Taiwan's new president takes office. The Navy relieved Cmdr. Cameron Dennis in February, just a few months after he assumed command of the Japan-based warship. The George Washington is also poised to return to Yokosuka, Japan, as the Navy’s only forward-deployed carrier later this year. “There’s no desire to over-militarize or create a theme of a contested battlespace in the Arctic," the commander of U.S. 2nd Fleet said. Adm. Stephen Koehler assumed of U.S. Pacific Fleet during a ceremony Thursday. Gunner's Mate 3rd Class Elijah Riddle is at least the second sailor to die aboard a deployed Navy warship in recent weeks. Load More