It’s not often you get a chance to hear from the someone who was directly involved in the Pacific Theater battles that movies have been made about.

No one disputes that the Navy shares blame for the loss of the USS Bonhomme Richard, the $1.2 billion amphibious assault ship that was consumed by flames in San Diego in July 2020 as it was undergoing maintenence.

More than a half dozen former crewmembers of the USS Bonhomme Richard gave testimony in the arson case against a young sailor.

A Navy narrative of a fatal helicopter crash off Southern California last week says the aircraft experienced side-to-side vibrations that caused the main rotor to hit the deck of an aircraft carrier while landing.

The U.S. Navy has pulled the plug on research on a futuristic weapon that fires projectiles at up to seven times the speed of sound using electricity.

(CNN) - The US Navy confirmed to CNN on Tuesday that three sailors assigned to the USS George H. W. Bush aircraft carrier off the coast of Virginia died by suicide in "separate incidents" last week and has launched an investigation into their deaths. "Every death of a Sailor is devastating and affects our entire Navy Family. Five sailors who were assigned to the carrier have died by suicide in the last two years. The number of confirmed and suspected suicides in the active-duty Marine Corps and the Navy reached a 10-year high in 2018. Sixty-eight active duty Navy personnel died by suicide in 2018 with 57 cases among the Marine Corps, according to data obtained by CNN.

Ted Quackenbush via Wikimedia Commons(CNN) - Greek police say they have arrested a 65-year-old Lebanese man on the island of Mykonos over the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985 in which a US Navy officer was killed. The suspect, named by Lebanon's foreign ministry as Mohammad Saleh, was stopped on Thursday during a routine security check when his description matched those on a German warrant for his arrest, Greek police told CNN. "A charges d'affaires will head to Athens at 7am on Sunday to Syros island to meet with Saleh and to offer him consular assistance," the Ministry added. Greek police are cooperating with German authorities on the investigation, Chronopoulos said. Hijackers seized control of the Boeing 727 aircraft shortly after it took off from Athens, en route to Rome, on June 14, 1985.

NORFOLK, Va. - The U.S. Navy has confirmed the authenticity of three videos taken from its planes that show unidentified objects flying through the air. Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told The Associated Press the videos were taken in 2004 and 2015. Gradisher said the service is updating guidelines to encourage its pilots to better report the sightings as Navy investigators analyze the information. Meanwhile, lawmakers are calling for more information on the unidentified objects, some of which seem to challenge the laws of physics. Copyright 2019 The Associated Press.

The US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. And while officials said they don't know what the objects are, they're not indulging any hints either. (CNN) - The US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. The objects seen in three clips of declassified military footage are "unidentified aerial phenomena," Navy spokesperson Joe Gradisher confirmed to CNN. The public clips capture just a fraction of the frequent incursions Navy training ranges see, he said.

(CNN) - The US Navy sailed a warship near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea Friday as part of an operation aimed at challenging Chinese claims to the area, a move that drew an immediate protest from Beijing which accused the US of practicing "navigational hegemony." "The US side has been practicing 'navigational hegemony' in the South China Sea for a long time. The USS Wayne E. Meyer conducted a similar operation last month, sailing within 12 nautical miles of the contested Fiery Cross and Mischief Reef, two Chinese occupied islands in the South China Sea. The US regularly conducts freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea, with many of those aimed at challenging what the US sees as China's excessive maritime claims in the region. The US has long accused Beijing of militarizing islands in the South China Sea via the deployment of military hardware and construction of military facilities.

"Commander, Navy Special Warfare Command Read Adm. Collin Green relieved the three senior leaders of SEAL Team Seven from their positions Sept. 6.," US Navy Capt. Tamara Lawrence, a spokesperson for Naval Special Warfare Command, told CNN in a statement explaining the rare move. While the team's leadership has been removed from their positions, they remain in the Navy and no additional punishments or disciplinary action has taken place at this time. The Navy SEAL officers are not being accused of engaging in the alleged behavior that got the team sent home from Iraq, the Navy is holding them responsible for the behavior of their subordinates and the command climate they oversaw. Navy officials said they could not recall a similar time when the leadership of a SEAL team was similarly fired from their positions.

US Navy boat found in Ireland nearly a year after it went missing during training operations in Norfolk, Virginia. (CNN) - Crew members from a ferry company in Ireland said they made an unexpected discovery with U.S. ties this week when they found a Navy boat floating in the Atlantic Ocean. Intrigued, the ferry company took to social media Tuesday with their discovery. So how did the boat survive over 3,300 miles across the Atlantic Ocean? This is the second time in 15 years that a boat has gone missing at sea, according to Boulay.

CNN imageYOKOSUKA, Japan - The US Navy sailed a warship within 12 nautical miles of two contested islands in the South China Sea Wednesday, part of what it calls a "freedom of navigation operation" (FONOP). Reann Mommsen, a spokesperson for the US 7th Fleet, told CNN in a statement. US Navy freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea occur regularly. In late May, two US warships performed an operation near a Chinese-controlled island in the Paracels group in the northern part of the South China Sea. The Global Times report followed strong language by Washington earlier in the week on Chinese actions in the South China Sea.

NEW YORK - The USS Grunion went missing about a month after it departed on its first war patrol in 1942. It wasn't seen again until the sons of the Grunion's commanding officer began searching for it and found the wreckage in 2007 off the coast of the Aleutian Islands. In October 2018, the Lost 52 Project team returned to the site of the main wreck and found that the ship's bow had slid down a steep volcanic embankment, Taylor said. They put together a 3D scan of the bow and presented it to the family of USS Grunion's Commanding Officer Lt. Cmdr. The Navy says 52 US Pacific Fleet submarines were lost during World War II, and more than 3,500 submariners remain on "eternal patrol."

(CNN) - The US Navy has identified a missing sailor who is believed to have fallen overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier last week while it was operating in the Arabian Sea. Saldana, of San Antonio, was assigned to the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5, part of the Carrier Wing 7, assigned to the Lincoln Carrier strike group. "The search and rescue operations were concluded on July 19, after extensive attempts to locate the Sailor," the US Navy's Fifth Fleet which oversees operations in the region said in a statement. The USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group was deployed to the Middle East in May due to a "number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" from Iran, US national security adviser John Bolton said at the time. Prior to that deployment, the US Navy had been without an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf since early April, when the USS John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group departed to head to the Mediterranean for exercises with the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, according to the US Naval Institute's Fleet and Marine Tracker.

The USS Eagle 2 (PE-2), pictured, was the identical sister ship to the USS Eagle 56 (PE-56). ATLANTIC OCEAN - The USS Eagle PE-56 was supporting Navy training exercises off the coast of Maine when an explosion tore it in half in April 1945. But in June 2018, a team of eight wreck divers working with the Smithsonian Channel finally located it about six miles from Maine's shore. The sinking was originally thought to be an accidentThe USS Eagle PE-56 was the last American warship sunk off the East Coast during World War II, according to the Smithsonian Channel. The reclassification made the USS Eagle PE-56 the Navy's largest single combat loss in New England waters.