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A U.S. Navy veteran held in Iran for the past two years has been freed. Michael White, 48, was detained in July 2018 after traveling to Iran to see a woman he had met online and fell in love with. White was sentenced to 10 years in prison in March 2019, in part for insulting …

The FBI said Thursday that its preliminary investigation into the shooting at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi was “terrorism-related,” after a gunman tried to drive onto the base but was killed by base security. “We have determined that the incident this morning at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi is terrorism-related,” Leah Greeves, an F.B.I. …

The Pentagon on Monday released three Navy videos the Defense Department says show “unidentified aerial phenomena.” One of the videos, recorded by Navy pilots via infrared camera, was taken in 2004, while the other two were recorded in January 2015. The videos have been circulated since they were leaked in 2007 and 2017, respectively. The …

The top officer in the Navy believes the former captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier should be reinstated, after he was removed from his command earlier this month when an email he wrote to superiors warning of a coronavirus outbreak on the ship leaked to the public. Admiral Mike Gilday told General Mark Milley, chairman …

President Trump announced on Wednesday that he had ordered the U.S. Navy to destroy Iranian gunboats if they harass American ships. “I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea,” Trump wrote on Twitter. Last week, Iranian gunboats interfered with …

A sailor serving on the USS Theodore Roosevelt died Monday after contracting the coronavirus, the U.S. Navy announced. The unidentified sailor, whose name is being kept private until 24 hours after his family is notified, died from health complications after testing positive for the virus late last month. “The Sailor tested positive for COVID-19 March 30, …

Acting secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly at a hearing on Capitol Hill, December 3, 2019. Acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly apologized on Monday night after his speech to sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt aircraft carrier leaked, revealing he had lambasted the former captain of the ship for his handling of a coronavirus outbreak …

Captain Brett Crozier addresses the crew for the first time as commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in San Diego, Calif., November 1, 2019. The U.S. Navy relieved aircraft carrier Captain Brett Crozier of his command after the captain sent a letter to superiors urging them to take action to contain a …

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that the U.S. Navy would be sending its 1,000-bed USNS Comfort floating hospital ship to New York