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USS Stout helps injured cargo ship crew member
The hurt crew member had suffered injuries from a hot fuel oil spill.
By Diana Stancy
Readying for the worst: Pandemic’s long deployments take a hard toll on crews, families and ships
The pace of operations and Big Navy’s COVID suppression measures are placing added stress and strain upon sailors and raising questions in some circles about retention and the material readiness of Navy ships, compounding issues that existed well before the pandemic.
Destroyer McCain conducts FONOP in Sea of Japan; Russia claims it led to a tussle with one of its destroyers
“The Russian Federation's statement about this mission is false. USS John S. McCain was not ‘expelled’ from any nation's territory," the 7th Fleet said.
By Diana Stancy
Destroyer Ross treks into the Barents Sea’s Arctic waters — again
After years of avoiding it, U.S. Navy destroyers have sailed into the Barents Sea three times so far this year.
By Diana Stancy
All US Navy destroyers will get hypersonic missiles, says Trump’s national security adviser
All three flights of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers are going to get the weapons, according to Robert O'Brien.
By David B. Larter
Memory of 17 killed in Cole attack and heroics of survivors honored at 20th anniversary memorial
The Navy learned a few lessons from the attack, most notably that a ship’s crew needs to remain vigilant.
By Jared Morgan
Remember the Cole: al-Qaida attacked the destroyer in Yemen 20 years ago today
Two decades ago on Oct. 12, an al-Qaida attack on the USS Cole left 17 sailors dead and 37 wounded.
By Harm Venhuizen
Former Pinckney commander reinvents himself, opens restaurant following tragedy
The commissioning commanding officer of the guided-missile destroyer Pinckney has reinvented his life after enduring the tragic death of his son.
By Mackensy Lunsford, Asheville Citizen-Times
Navy to honor memory of 17 sailors killed in 2000 jihadi attack on destroyer Cole
Monday marks 20 years since 17 sailors were killed in a terrorist bombing of the Navy destroyer Cole while in a Yemeni port.
By Jared Morgan
Navy commissions destroyer named for the first MCPON
The Arleigh Burke class destroyer Delbert D. Black was commissioned Saturday morning.
By Harm Venhuizen
US contractor told Lebanese port official of chemicals risk
A U.S. Army contractor advising the Lebanese navy told port officials of the unsafe storage of ammonium nitrate in 2015 or 2016.
By Robert Burns, The Associated Press