Tag: Navy

An FBI investigator investigates the scene of a shooting outside a military recruiting center in Chattanooga, Tenn. (AP Photo/John Bazemore, File)

Sailor shot at Tenn. military support center dies

Susan Crabtree · July 18, 2015 2:50 pm

False alarm at Navy Yard shows how responders addressed gaps of 2013 shooting

False alarm at Navy Yard shows how responders addressed gaps of 2013 shooting

Tara Copp · July 3, 2015 12:00 pm

A member of the Navy Seals parachute team lands on the field before a baseball game between at Petco Park in San Diego,Â May 25, 2014. A similar descent took place to honor the fallen Navy SEALS and Army Special Forces in Suffolk on Saturday. (Getty File Photo)

Beltway Confidential

A decade on, skydiving Navy SEALs honor fallen soldiers

Emily Leayman · June 29, 2015 10:56 pm

Watch: F-35B joint strike fighter completes first ski-jump launch

Watch: F-35B joint strike fighter completes first ski-jump launch

David Brown · June 23, 2015 5:10 pm

On June 15, the Department of Defense reported a set of targets in its daily airstrike report: two Islamic State "tunnel systems" in Syria, a tunnel entrance and two additional tunnel systems in Iraq. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

U.S. targets Islamic State tunnels in Iraq

Tara Copp · June 20, 2015 9:00 am

Navy weighs rule change for transgender sailors

National Security

Navy weighs rule change for transgender sailors

Tara Copp · June 11, 2015 10:56 pm

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus shakes hands with retired Navy Capt. Mark Kelly, husband of Gabrielle Giffords, center, at the Pentagon in 2012. Mabus had just announced that the Navy's 10th littoral combat ship will be named after Giffords. (Chief Mass Communication Specialist Sam Shavers, U.S. Navy)

National Security

USS Gabrielle Giffords to be christened Saturday

David Brown · June 11, 2015 7:44 pm

Chaplain Lt. Cmdr. Wesley Modder offers an invocation during a Sept. 11 commemoration ceremony at the Coronado Fire Department on Sept. 11, 2012. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Benjamin Crossley/Released)

Navy chaplain fights possible discharge over views on homosexuality

Nathan Rubbelke · June 11, 2015 3:34 pm

Sen. Thad Cochran,Â chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee's defense subcommittee, right, andÂ Sen. Dick Durbin,Â the subcommittee's ranking Democrat,Â wrap up a hearing. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

National Security

Senate panel approves war funding measure

Charles Hoskinson · June 9, 2015 4:40 pm

U.S., NATO launch mega exercise on Russia’s doorstep

National Security

U.S., NATO launch mega exercise on Russia’s doorstep

Tara Copp · June 9, 2015 4:01 am

The overflights were "nothing untoward, just showing interest," Vice Admiral James Foggo said.Â (Photo courtesy www.san-antonio.navy.mil)

National Security

Russian warplanes, ships buzz U.S. flotilla

Tara Copp · June 8, 2015 9:20 pm

South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (right) and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry share one trait that sets them apart from the other candidates storming the early primary states: They have military experience. (AP Photos)

Presidential candidates with military experience are becoming a rarity

Ryan Lovelace · June 3, 2015 6:48 pm