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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.

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.”

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.

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.

The unprompted revelation of intimate details did not stop there, however, with Trump going full disclosure on the way his third wife likes to store her underwear.

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If a president can murder civilians at sea and keep the legal justifications secret, we should all be concerned. The harm is even worse when basic factual evidence, such as full videos and orders, are also hidden from the American people.

The Clay County Sheriff's Office said Taylor Lomax, identified as an NAS Jax sailor, was arrested for shooting and killing his roommates Wednesday night. (video)

Active-duty troops and drilling Guard and reserve members will receive a 3.8% pay raise in January.

During his speech on Wednesday, Trump announced that his administration is sending 1.45 million enlisted military members a $1,776 check that they're calling a "Warrior Dividend" before Christmas. Trump claimed that the dividend was funded by revenue from his tariffs. However, Politico later reported that the funds were moved from a federal account that helps servicemembers find affordable housing.

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FLORIDA KEYS, Fla. — An off-duty ICE agent was arrested Wednesday afternoon in the Florida Keys after being accused of driving under the influence and child endangerment.

The Trump administration has not hired the best people to work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement. One of them was arrested for sex trafficking as part of a three-day sting earlier this month.

Yes, the same iCe that is arresting Navy family members... An ICE leader has been locked up in the same jail where he’d sent ICE prisoners after he allegedly strangled his girlfriend earlier this month.

I truly believe this is not going to work too well... The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a massive reorganization of its health care management system, reducing the number of networks that support VA medical centers and realigning policy offices to promote consistency.

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WASHINGTON — The Senate gave final passage to an annual military policy bill Wednesday that will authorize $901 billion in defense programs while pressuring Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to provide lawmakers with video of strikes on alleged drug boats in international water near Venezuela

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Tuesday he is overhauling the military’s chaplain corps, which provide religious and spiritual support to members of the armed forces and their families, saying he intended to target “new age” concepts.

President Donald Trump has ordered a “total and complete blockade” of all U.S.‑sanctioned oil tankers entering or leaving Venezuela, sharply intensifying pressure on President Nicolás Maduro’s government amid soaring tensions. The directive follows weeks of escalating U.S. military activity in the Caribbean, and recent tracking data shows a substantial concentration of U.S. naval forces off Venezuela’s northern coast—suggesting what a blockade could look like in practice.

Despite a historic recruiting year, the Navy will need to continue to bring in more junior sailors to fully man at-sea billets, a problem that will likely continue into the next two to three years and is compounded by delays in the training pipelines, a Navy official told USNI News. The Navy has a total of 20,683 gaps-at sea as of Dec. 3, Stacee McCarroll, a service spokesperson, told USNI News on Monday. The majority of the gaps at-sea are in the apprentice level, which covers E-1 through E-3. At the apprentice level, there are 16,369 gaps at-sea, followed by 3,301 among journeyman sailors (E-4 to E-6) and 1,013 in the supervisor level, which includes sailors at ranks E-7 and above, McCarroll said.

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – Would you like to help tricare.mil become even more helpful to you and your family members? Do you have ideas that will improve the look and content of the website? The Defense Health Agency Usability Lab needs participants to give feedback on how TRICARE conveys benefit information to tricare.mil users. The DHA Usability Lab kicked off the first tricare.mil usability study in September 2025. It is now launching a second phase of a study to improve the TRICARE website. This study will be conducted from Dec. 29, 2025, through Feb. 28, 2026. For this phase, the lab is seeking more participants from the following groups:

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