100 years ago Friday, the first submariner received the Medal of Honor
Heroism while his boat sank earned Torpedoman’s Mate 2nd Class Henry Breault the military's highest decoration in 1924.
By Sarah Sicard
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US mulls deploying Marine security team to Haiti amid gang crisis
In 2010, after an earthquake struck Haiti, fleet antiterrorism security team Marines were sent to assist the Marine guards at the embassy there.
When John Paul Jones crossed over
In 1905, an American cruiser took the remains of the Revolutionary War naval hero home.
By Ellen Hampton, Military History Magazine
Meet America’s daring frigate captains
In the War of 1812, Britain’s powerful Royal Navy met its match in a determined band of U.S. Navy warship commanders.
By Cmdr. Benjamin "B.J." Armstrong
Lawmakers vote to sink submarine
Leaders say it’ll cost $2.7 million to sink the sub to make an artificial reef, but that’s the best of three bad options.
Will your command create a fab shoulder patch?
Commands are starting to authorize alternative unit shoulder patches for their Type III Navy Working Uniforms.
By Mark D. Faram
The unloved, unlovely, yet indispensable LST
One of the biggest threats to D-Day success came from the Allied side — the shortage of a key ship.
By Craig L. Symonds, World War II Magazine
SEAL vet dishes on mysterious arrest in Haiti
The retired SEAL and his fellow contractors — carrying a dozen semi-automatic rifles and pistols, along with satellite phones and other gear — had pulled away from a bank when they were stopped by police and detained.
Even before US ships moved through the Taiwan Strait, the region was simmering
In the South China Sea, Beijing is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves.
Presidents’ Day pause: How ‘Uncle Sam’s Web-feet’ helped swing an election for Abe Lincoln
The U.S. Navy's triumph at Mobile Bay, combined with victorious Federal ground campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, helped reelect Abraham Lincoln and doomed the Confederacy to defeat.
By Gerald D. Swick, Civil War Times Magazine
Born a slave, this Navy petty officer founded a community of ‘race pioneers’ to stand against bigotry
Meet the remarkable Allen Allensworth, the slave who became a sailor, then a soldier and then an inspiration to a country divided by racial injustice.
By B. Gordon Wheeler, Wild West
Meet the unstoppable Mr. Smalls
He would go on to share intelligence with the U.S. Navy, fight in 17 naval battles, rise to the rank of major general, overcome illiteracy, publish a newspaper, win state and congressional offices, serve as a U.S. collector of customs and become master of his master’s plantation house. But first he had to hijack a Confederate steamer.
By Gerald S. Henig, America's Civil War Magazine