October 9, 2019 Thailand frees falsely accused US Navy veteran from prison A U.S. Navy veteran who spent more than a year locked up in maximum-security Thai prison for a crime he did not commit finally returned to his home in Texas Wednesday.
September 30, 2019 Navy sailor dies after falling off USS Nimitz during port visit in California A Navy sailor from Illinois died Saturday after falling off an aircraft carrier while it was docked during a port visit in California, according to military officials.
September 26, 2019 Active-duty military suicides spike to record high, Pentagon report says Suicide rates among active-duty U.S. service members reached a record high in 2018, according to a Defense Department report released Thursday.
September 24, 2019 VA settles with Navy vet for $150G in malpractice lawsuit: report A Navy veteran who was allegedly turned away by a Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital in South Carolina because it claimed he had cocaine in his system has been awarded a $150,000 settlement in his medical malpractice lawsuit, according to a report.
September 24, 2019 3 sailors assigned to USS George H.W. Bush commit suicide in same week Three Navy sailors assigned to the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier committed suicide last week in separate, unrelated incidents, officials announced Monday.
September 19, 2019 Retired SEAL McRaven says US will be in Afghanistan for 'very long time' Retired Navy SEAL Adm. William McRaven, the former head of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) who organized the 2011 raid that took out Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden, says the U.S. will be in Afghanistan “for a very long time.”
September 18, 2019 Navy carrier strike group deploys - without its aircraft carrier The Navy’s Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group has deployed without a key asset – the aircraft carrier from which it gets its name.
September 15, 2019 Pearl Harbor sailors laid to rest on same day in NJ, Kansas 78 years after 1941 attack The remains of two U.S. military veterans who were killed in Pearl Harbor on the same day in 1941 have finally been laid to rest — also on the same day, nearly 78 years later.
September 14, 2019 Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher sues his ex-lawyers, military nonprofit Decorated Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, who was acquitted of murder in a war crimes trial this past July, has sued two of his former lawyers and a military legal defense nonprofit, according to court documents filed in Texas Friday.
September 13, 2019 Lauren Bruner, one of last survivors of USS Arizona, dies at 98 Lauren Bruner, one of the last four survivors of the attack on the USS Arizona by Japanese planes on Dec. 7, 1941, died Tuesday in California. He was 98.