Marine corporal awarded Navy Cross 55 years after Vietnam heroics
"How 'bout them Jarheads."
By Todd South
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Navy christens destroyer for Marine who jumped on grenade in Vietnam
The family of a fallen Navy Cross recipient christened the future guided-missile destroyer Patrick Gallagher at a ceremony in Maine.
Artillery fire lands near American troops in Syria
Multiple artillery strikes landed about one kilometer from a road where U.S. forces in northeast Syria were paroling on Sunday
By Shawn Snow
How Dorie Miller’s bravery helped fight Navy racism
The first American hero of World War II helped clear the way for others by doing what he was not allowed to do.
By Thomas W. Cutrer and T. Michael Parrish, World War II Magazine
LCS fires ship-killing missile during ex-frigate Ford’s SINKEX
The frigate reportedly absorbed a lot of firepower.
By Navy Times staff
Explainer: The Cross, an eternal symbol of love that’s been tragically twisted by terrorists, war criminals
A scholar of medieval Christian history and worship explains the complicated history of the Cross.
By Joanne M. Pierce, College of the Holy Cross
Welcome to the Arctic: Degraded radios, poor satellite geometry and sea charts dating back to Capt. Cook
The debate on Capitol Hill arrived while Navy, Coast Guard and Marine Corps personnel carried out large exercises in the Gulf of Alaska.
Icy Arctic becomes hot property for rival powers
Strategically, Greenland forms part of what the U.S. views as a key corridor for naval operations between the Arctic and the North Atlantic. I
Dead by their own hands: Why the Germans scuttled a fleet
Just a few fathoms below Scapa Flow’s dark surface lie the remains of a navy — four battleships and four light cruisers of the Imperial German High Seas Fleet, scuttled by their own crews in 1919 in the largest act of self-destruction in naval history.
By Mark T. Simmons, Military History
Aussie navy pilots hit by Chinese lasers
China claims the strategic waterway virtually in its entirety and is sensitive to all foreign naval action in the area, especially by the U.S. and allies such as Australia.
The worst war criminals in ‘Game of Thrones’ ranked
A total of 103 violations of international law in times of war were counted.
By Jon Simkins
That time a Navy jet shot itself down
In this season of the practical joke, let's talk about some very bad mistakes unique to the world's military services.
By Alan Green, Military History Quarterly Magazine