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Commencement Week for the US Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland is a major event for both the Graduates and Midshipman at the Academy, and...

Ranks of the u.s navy/navy SEALs

U.S. Navy enlisted personnel—unlike those in the other services—wear their jobs on their sleeves. A Marine machine-gunner wears similar collar rank as the rest of his fire team; unless you ask him, or see his military occupation in his file, one could never know his job specifics just by looking at his uniform. Not so in the Navy. The Navy’s complicated enlisted system is based on a sailor’s occupation, or rating. Those range from the enduring—quartermaster, yeoman, boatswain’s mate or…

The importance to naval aviation of the latest generation of the fighter can’t be understated.

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World War II, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the destruction of the USS Arizona, December 7, 1941, official U.S. Navy photograph

Officially referred to as a “Missing Man Flyover,” the tribute will be part of the funeral service for retired Navy Captain, Rosemary Mariner, who passed away on Jan. 24 following a long and brave fight with cancer.

180115-N-TB177-0193 MANAMA, BAHRAIN (Jan. 15, 2018) Lt. Pamela Resurreccion, right, and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Raymond Bedard, from Expeditionary Resuscitative Surgical System 19, perform simulated casualty exercises in the medical bay aboard Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship Cardigan Bay during exercise Azraq Serpent 18. Azraq Serpent 18 is a bilateral exercise between the U.K. Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy dedicated to developing interoperability between partners across the medical domain in…

A PBR crewman mans the forward twin .50-caliber machine gun mount. 14 April 1966. Credit: U.S. Navy