Category: Navy

All Sailors who won’t get vaccinated for COVID-19 will be administratively discharged from the Navy. But this shouldn’t raise an eyebrow.

The unique bond between Marines and their “Doc” is nearly unbreakable.

The attack against the USS Cole caused al-Qaeda’s recruitment to increase, but also led to a necessary change in the Rules of Engagement.

The maddest idea in the world just turned 246-years old and is as strong as ever. Happy birthday, U.S. Navy!

I’ve been hearing and telling “There I was…” stories for my entire adult life. It started for me in flight school, listening to a grizzled old sim instructor tell me about the day he got a MiG kill without taking a shot. A Vietnamese MiG-21 had been vectored at him thinking his F-8 was actually an […]

Recent news is that Japan is going to convert its two Izumo class helicopter carriers into aircraft carriers. This follows on the U.S Marines landing an F-35B VERTOL on the deck of an Izumo class carrier. It’s been about 70 years since a fixed-wing aircraft landed on one of Japan’s naval vessels. Here in the […]

The torture lasted another 30 minutes. Finally, they quit, leaving Glen and the Rat to untape me and help me through the shower.

Electronic-warfare platforms may prove critical in the Indo-Pacific. Chinese weapons are evolving but can they withstand U.S. capabilities?

Bravo Zulu is really an open naval secret. The origin of Bravo Zulu (or BZ in short) dates back to the 1940s.

The blackness lasted no more than a moment, at which point the emergency lights kicked in, their glow about as strong as a few candles

John David Mann takes you behind the scenes of “Steal Fear” and onboard the USS Lincoln as he traces the inner workings of the hit crime thriller.

Water doesn’t compress like a mattress. When you hit, you hit hard. As a few unfortunate souls learn in the pages of Steel Fear.