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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled against President Trump on Tuesday, refusing to reinstate, for now, Trump’s ability to send National Guard troops into the state of Illinois over the objections of the governor.
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The Posse Comitatus Act (PCA), codified in 18 U.S.C. 1385, is a federal law limiting the use of the U.S. military as part of domestic law enforcement. It prohibits the president from unilaterally deploying federal troops or the National Guard to states in order to fight local crime. An exception is based on the Insurrection Act, allowing the president exclusive authority to deploy troops to prevent rebellions intended to overthrow the government.
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The Navy's Officer Candidate School (OCS) in Newport, Rhode Island, is a 13-week course that turns civilians and enlisted sailors into naval officers.
Candidates face intense physical, mental, and leadership challenges across three phases: indoctrination, academic, and applied leadership. The training includes drills and physical challenges led by Marine instructors, as well as intense academic study in weapons, engineering, navigation, and leadership.
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An independent government watchdog found major issues in the way the U.S. Navy conducts fire safety prevention and contractor oversight for ships during maintenance periods.
Staffing shortages and ineffective tools for ensuring contractors comply with fire safety standards are the biggest hurdles for future fire risk aboard Navy ships, the Government Accountability Office warned in a Dec. 17 report.
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It's weird how fast the US Navy has transitioned to being so unethical since this last administration. It's as if order and discipline is slowly eroding...
A new Pentagon Inspector General report says that the Army and Navy misrepresented the academic qualifications of some recruits, allowing both services to exceed federal limits on low-scoring enlistees.
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he following is the Dec. 17, 2025, Government Accountability Office report, Navy Ship Maintenance: Fire Prevention Improvements Hinge on Stronger Contractor Oversight.
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Navy Medicine Fast Facts: Hospital Ship Helo-Decks
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I thought he was supposed to stay away from that whiskey bottle!?!?...
LAST WEEK, SECRETARY OF WAAH Pete Hegseth released a video on social media asserting that “a real problem facing our nation’s military” is “the weakening of our chaplain corps.”
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He wants to make sure the battleship he is naming after himself also looks pretty...
The Navy is tasked with leading the design of the new battleships, which are expected to be ready early next decade, according to the Defense Department. Trump said he will also play a role, "because I’m a very aesthetic person."
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Yesterday, CBS News pulled a story titled “Inside CECOT” just hours before it was set to air.
The report examined the Trump administration’s controversial deportation of more than 250 people — most of them Venezuelan nationals — to CECOT, a sprawling prison in El Salvador where detainees were held under severe conditions. The segment featured interviews with deportees who described brutal treatment and alleged abuse inside the facility.
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A leap of faith and hopes of becoming a pilot set one Sailor on a path from enlisted ranks to officer candidacy.
For Petty Officer 1st Class Fonanti Sapee, an enlisted outreach coordinator at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), the dream of becoming a naval officer began not in a recruiter’s office or at a career fair, but through watching friends succeed.
Aboard his previous command, USS Columbus, Sapee, whose rate is Machinist's Mate Nuclear, witnessed fellow Sailors apply for and gain acceptance to the Seaman to Admiral-21 (STA-21) program — the Navy’s commissioning opportunity for active-duty enlisted personnel.
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What a misguided commander-in-Thief...
He appeared to suggest during his televised address that the bonus was made possible by tariff revenue.
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The Army and Navy exceeded the legal level of recruits with the lowest acceptable Armed Forces Qualification Test scores, according to a report from the Pentagon’s Inspector General released this week.
The services, which are in the midst of reversing years of stagnant new enlistments, each created preparatory courses that would allow potential recruits with low AFQT scores to spend weeks studying under military teachers, in order to raise their scores and then move to boot camp.
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FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Getting married is an exciting milestone in your life! It’s also a time when many changes come along, including changes to your health coverage. Whether you’re a service member, a retiree, or marrying someone who is, it’s important to understand how marriage can affect your TRICARE eligibility and coverage.
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Chief Watertender Oscar V. Peterson spent 21 years at sea before May 7, 1942, when Japanese bombs turned the USS Neosho into a burning wreck during the Battle of the Coral Sea. Already wounded from the attack, the 42-year-old sailor crawled alone into several superheated compartments to manually close four massive steam line valves.
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The U.S. Navy is pursuing a new class of smaller, more agile combatant ships that the service says will become a “critical component of the Navy’s fleet of the future.”
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A striking convergence of events this week should have shaken the Pentagon’s overseers but so far hasn’t. On Wednesday, the Senate passed a $900 billion defense bill by an overwhelming 77–20 margin. A few days earlier, the New York Times devoted its entire 13-page Sunday Opinion section to argue that much of that budget is a colossal waste of money.
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Instead, Hegseth and Trump are building a military focused on the Western Hemisphere, purged of dissenters and anyone concerned about the legality of their possibly criminal Caribbean boat strikes or the feasibility of an actual ground offensive against Venezuela.
When American national security is governed by insecure and paranoid men, it is the grunts who always end up paying the price.
How US troops in World War II celebrated Christmas dinner on the front
in History of the United States Navy
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Eighty years ago, American troops were home for Christmas for the first time in years. For the previous four years, troops had faced holidays away from family, and in whatever conditions the war presented, from snowless tropics to brutal winters of northern Europe. But even in the most expansive footprint of the war, cooks, supply troops, and even frontline leaders did their best to make sure Christmas dinner wasn’t forgotten.