This article was originally published May 10, 2022, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. A junior Navy Reserve officer and Senate staffer has gotten congressional accolades and a military honor for her role in a low-profile rescue ...
A Naval Special Warfare sailor died Monday, May 9, from injuries sustained several days earlier during training at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia. The sailor, whose name is being withheld from the public for 24 hours ...
This article was originally published April 28, 2022, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. The Navy’s hulking, geometric Zumwalt-class destroyers have been without a clear mission or a main gun – a technological feat that ...
This article was originally published on Military.com April 11, 2022. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Jatzael Alvarado Perez began struggling with life aboard the destroyer USS Farragut last year. The ship was in the process of getting ready to ...
This article was originally published April 3, 2022, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. In 2016, the U.S. Navy announced that it needed 355 manned ships by around 2050 to execute mission requirements around the globe – up from ...
The Russian invasion of Ukraine has raised fears among the public about the use of nuclear weapons in Europe or against the United States. This level of concern has not been seen since the end of the Cold War. NATO countries have been taken aback ...
Navy SEALs can no longer train in Washington state parks, a judge ruled Friday, April 1, dealing a victory to environmentalists and park enthusiasts who fought the military’s use of public lands. Opponents had complained that the Navy's use was ...
One sailor is dead and two others hurt after a Navy E-2D Hawkeye crashed Wednesday, March 30, off the coast of Virginia. Few details have been released about the crash, but the Navy confirmed the Hawkeye and crew were part of an East Coast ...
A US Navy officer from Florida took cash to pen bogus visa recommendations for Afghans he didn’t even know, according to a federal indictment. Federal prosecutors have charged Cmdr. Jeromy Lee Pittmann, 53, of Pensacola, with bribery and ...
With the deployment of a Navy destroyer hanging in the balance, lawyers representing a number of religious objectors to the military’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates returned to federal court Thursday, March 10, to determine whether a Navy commander and a ...
The Navy named a career boatswain’s mate as the service’s most senior chief. Fleet Master Chief James Honea will become the 16th master chief petty officer of the Navy on Sept. 8. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday announced Honea’s ...
The Department of Defense will permanently close the Red Hill fuel storage facility that leaked petroleum into Pearl Harbor’s drinking water in Hawaii, but the process might not be done until the spring of 2023. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin ...
The Navy has recovered an F-35 that crashed off the deck of the USS Carl Vinson into the South China Sea after a fiery missed landing in January. According to a Thursday, March 3, statement from the US 7th Fleet, the commercial deep-diving and ...
The sailor accused of starting a fire that consumed the USS Bonhomme Richard will face a court-martial, a senior Navy commander decided Friday, Feb. 25. Seaman Recruit Ryan Sawyer Mays faces charges of willfully hazarding a vessel and aggravated ...
A 43-year-old sailor from Maryland pleaded guilty to espionage-related charges Monday, Feb. 14, for attempting to trade submarine secrets to an unnamed foreign government, hiding encrypted memory cards in a peanut butter sandwich, a Band-Aid wrapper, ...
A lot more Marines will be getting dunked deep thanks to a policy change requiring more intensive water egress training ahead of shipboard deployments. An all-Marine message, quietly released Jan. 31, implements new rules governing pre-deployment ...
The military will have to wait at least another week if it wants to punish two officers who have resisted a militarywide COVID-19 vaccine mandate on religious grounds, a federal judge ruled Thursday, Feb. 10, extending a protective order over their ...
After a senior Navy chaplain interviewed a submarine commander, he wrote to his superiors that the commanding officer was “an active and devoted participant in his Christian faith.” The Navy still denied Capt. James Lembo a religious exemption to ...
Another day, another guilty plea from a retired Navy leader snagged in the Fat Leonard corruption scandal. On Wednesday, Feb. 2, in San Diego, US Judge Janis L. Sammartino accepted ex-Capt. Donald Gayle “Bubbles” Hornbeck’s plea deal he inked with ...
A Maine man who downloaded child pornography while serving as a US Navy sailor in Guam will spend more than five years behind bars. On Wednesday, Feb. 2, US Chief Judge Frances M. Tydingco-Gatewood in Hagatna sentenced Austin Jacob Dodge to 65 ...
After Navy officials in Hawaii previously said they would empty the giant Red Hill fuel tanks that authorities there believe are contaminating drinking water, the Pentagon said Monday, Jan. 31, that it would appeal an order from local officials to do ...
This article was originally published Jan. 25, 2022, on Sandboxx News. Follow Sandboxx News on Instagram. Last Friday, US Navy Cmdr. Billie J. Farrell made history as the first woman to take command of the Navy’s oldest commissioned ship, the ...
An F-35 Lightning II suffered a landing mishap and tumbled off the deck of the USS Carl Vinson Monday, Jan. 24, in the South China Sea. The mishap injured seven sailors and will likely lead to a lengthy investigation into its cause. But in the days ...
A US Navy commander who dished classified ship movements for nights with prostitutes, champagne feasts, bowls of caviar, tropical resort rooms, and luxury watches is the latest of the brass to get tarnished by the Fat Leonard scandal. Ex-Cmdr. ...
US Patriot missiles and related air-defense systems in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, have intercepted several incoming ballistic missiles from Yemen, and videos around the internet have captured some of the defense systems' direct hits. Though ...
First the Navy said the water was safe to drink. Then it shut down a local well without alerting the public. Then it admitted the water was contaminated and began flushing it through hydrants onto neighborhood streets without required ...
In the summer of 2021, Jamie Simic began experiencing tingling lips and limbs, brain fog so severe she could not put sentences together, and heart palpitations. Her weight plummeted from 128 to 98 pounds amid gastrointestinal problems. Doctors had no ...
In December 2021, the Navy announced that future sailors would experience a longer boot camp to better prepare them for naval life. On January 3, 2022, this change was put into effect. Navy recruits will now complete 10 weeks of boot camp compared to ...
How much fuel has leaked into the water that Navy families are drinking in Hawaii? A lawyer for military families stationed at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam told Coffee or Die Magazine that the only tool anyone needs to find out is a ...
This article was originally published on Military.com Jan. 6, 2022. Follow Military.com on Twitter. Residents of military housing on Oahu have filed a potential class-action lawsuit against their property management companies after fuel was found ...
