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In a Wednesday letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao, Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., demanded answers to reports that approximately 5,000 men and women aboard ...

Where can the sea take you? That’s what the Navy’s 2026 commercial, the latest in the Forged By The Sea campaign, asked young Americans. It was a challenge, the head of Navy Recruiting Command told ...

After several years of the Army and Navy publicly missing their recruiting targets by thousands of people, the Defense Department’s five military branches had hit or exceeded their fiscal year 2026 ...

A sailor experienced a nightmare at sea when his boat became disabled during his voyage from the West Coast to Hawaii earlier this summer. Kaichi Sato, 39, left Southern California to sail to Hawaii ...

The Navy Reserve is offering retention and recruiting bonuses to sailors, officers and civilians, the service announced.

SOUTH JORDAN — Uncle Sam's call to action remains, "I Want You" — and legions of his "nieces" and "nephews" are heeding the exhortation to put on a uniform and serve. Last week, the U.S. Navy ...

Recruits assigned to the state flags unit wait to perform during pass-in-review at Navy Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, Ill., in January. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Mykala ...

The U.S. Navy on Tuesday identified Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards as the missing sailor who was aboard a helicopter that went down in the Arabian Sea on July 1. Edwards, the commanding officer of Helicopter ...

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The Navy raised its recruiting quota by nearly 10% and brought in 45,000 new sailors in nine months, the service said.