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Navy surface drone fires its first missile during Middle East exercise
The mini missile fire was part of an exercise by a unit working to develop the Navy's drone and artificial intelligence technologies.
The motivated Marine Corps origin of the ‘distracted boyfriend’ meme, 'rah?
Who among us wouldn’t get distracted by such a display?
By Jon Simkins
Why SECNAV is launching Naval University
The Pentagon hopes to combine the education efforts for both enlisted and officer personnel under a single Department of the Navy university that’s accredited to grant diplomas, from associate degrees up to advanced post-graduate work.
By Mark D. Faram
Audit: Naval Academy is falling apart
The Naval Audit Service’s report says the Annapolis, Maryland, college’s infrastructure has degraded to the point of threatening its ability to train midshipmen.
Navy names 88th Commandant of Midshipmen
A 1992 graduate of the Academy, Capt. Thomas R. “TR” Buchanan is a career submarine officer who currently serves as the Executive Assistant to the Director of the Joint Staff.
By Carl Prine
Hall of Fame football coach at Navy, Virginia, died peacefully on Wednesday
An All-American quarterback at Navy, George Welsh coached the Midshipmen from 1973-81, compiling a 55-46-1 record.
In the last hours of war, blood and heroism and irony and loss
World War II was clearly in its closing days — or was it?
By Sam Moses, World War II Magazine
How naked World War II sailors ended up riding Mongolian ponies in the Gobi Desert to shoot bazookas at the Japanese
“Set off explosives and run like hell.”
By Linda Kush, World War II Magazine
Sea change: How the Navy kept reinventing itself over the past century
How the U.S. Navy reinvented itself — and its sailors — during a century of radical change in technology and warfare.
By Ronald Spector, Military History Quarterly
This officer became the Navy’s first POW to receive the Medal of Honor
While aboard U-90, Lt. Edouard Izac listened to and watched everything around him. Gaining critical intelligence that could be used against the U-boats, Izac knew he must get the information to Allied authorities.
By David T. Zabecki, Military History Magazine