Nimitz Drinking Water Contaminated With Jet Fuel, Navy Acknowledges The confirmation comes after reports cropped up on social media and blogs alleging not only that a leak had occurred but that...
A String of Mishaps Shows How Tricky It Can Be to Keep the Aircraft on Aircraft Carriers The past year has been hard on the carrier aviation community.
How Much Does It Cost to Fix a Toilet on an Aircraft Carrier? Nature calls everywhere – even on board an aircraft carrier.
Navy Leaders Begin to Acknowledge Mistakes as Investigations into Carrier Suicides Expand Rear Adm. John Meier, commander of Naval Air Force Atlantic, told reporters, "If I knew then what I know today, I think we...
Hundreds of Sailors Being Moved Off Carrier After Surge of Suicides, Captain Tells Crew Capt. Brent Gaut announced that the ship will move 260 sailors "to an offsite barracks-type living arrangement on Norfolk...
Navy's Top Enlisted Leader Tells George Washington Crew at Least They Aren't 'Sleeping in a Foxhole Like a Marine' The carrier has experienced a string of suicides going back at least 10 months, including three suicides in a six-day stretch...
The USS Bismarck Sea Was the Last Commissioned US Aircraft Carrier Sunk by an Enemy The USS Bismarck Sea was the only U.S. Navy ship named for the 1943 battle.
Nearly 50 Years of Navy History Is on Its Way to Become Scrap The storied aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk -- a ship that served from Vietnam through the second Iraq war -- is heading for the...
With a Wink and a Nod, Japan Has an Aircraft Carrier Again The move gives another platform for a U.S. ally to fly the most advanced fighter jet in the world.
The US Navy Sold 2 Obsolete Aircraft Carriers to Scrap Dealers for a Cent Each The cut-price fee reflects the fact the company will profit from selling the ship metal for scrap, officials said.
Naval Academy Staff Removed Display on Female Jewish Graduates for Hegseth Visit The U.S. Naval Academy has confirmed that officials there removed items commemorating female Jewish graduates from a historic...
'The Greatest Soldier in American History' Took a Tank Round to the Leg and Kept Fighting The only reason Matt Urban didn't receive the Medal of Honor for single-handedly breaking an entire battalion through France...
My Black Roommate Opened My Eyes to an Air Force I Didn’t Know Existed I realized I had been sheltered from much of the world's ugliness and was more than a little naive. I thought the problems I...
4 US Soldiers Who Died in Lithuania Swamp When Their Vehicle Sank Are Identified The recovery operation for the bodies and the M88 was an intricate and arduous weeklong process, enlisting the expertise of...
How Comic Legend Mel Brooks Defused Land Mines During World War II Brooks participated in the Battle of the Bulge -- Germany's final major offensive on the Western Front -- but to his...
![F-35C Lightning II launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln](http://images02.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2022-08/mil-F-35C-USS-Abraham-Lincoln-1800.jpg?itok=QDzjN9LU "An F-35C Lightning II, assigned to the "Black Knights" of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314, launches from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72), Jan. 21, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Michael Singley)")
