Andrew DeGrandpre

The U.S. Navy said that it thwarted efforts by Iran to commandeer two commercial oil tankers off Oman, and that one attempted seizure involved intense gunfire.

U.S. Navy commanders are consulting with military medical personnel about providing vaccine boosters to the crew of the USS Milwaukee amid a global spike in infections fueled by the highly transmissible omicron variant.

Navy vessels, where personnel live in tight quarters while at sea, are particularly vulnerable to the coronavirus. The U.S. military’s first major coronavirus outbreak happened last year aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt.

The reputations of Fred Galvin and others in Fox Company were damaged by a Taliban fabrication in 2007 that was amplified by senior U.S. officers.

If he’s confirmed, the Navy admiral would probably forgo a pending military promotion that comes with more generous retirement benefits.

The incident became one of the military’s most high-profile cases since the Vietnam War.

It has long been an open secret that the Pentagon has far more personnel involved in the campaign against the Islamic State than its publicly disclosed figures suggest.

Ten sailors died as a result of the accident.

Police haven’t said how the teen died in that freezer, but video helps stitch together the events of that grim day.

All 1,800 residents have been evacuated, and the island’s history will now be described in two epochs: before Irma and after Irma.