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Petty Officer 1st Class Parker Wardell, a native of Tampa, Florida, serves aboard USS New Jersey, the U.S. Navy’s newest fast ...

Story by Sarah Cannon, Military Sealift Command Pacific, Sept. 21, 2024   SAN DIEGO-Fleet replenishment oiler USNS Lucy Stone ...

Lisa Franchetti is trying to break a paradigm. Admiral Franchetti is the newish chief of naval operations (CNO), or ...

The Navy is taking lessons from its combat in the Red Sea over the past year and what Ukraine has done to hold off the Russians in the Black Sea to help U.S. military leaders prepare the ...

The USNS Lucy Stone, a fleet replenishment oiler, was christened at the General Dynamics NASSCO shipyard in San Diego on ...

The military branch said Franchetti properly transferred her authority to the Vice Chief of Naval Operations during her surgery.

Adm. Lisa Franchetti, chief of Naval Operations, was successfully treated for breast cancer in July, the Navy announced ...

The Navy said the service's top admiral is "cancer-free" after surgery last summer and follow-up radiation therapy.

Adm. Lisa Franchetti's stage 1 breast cancer was discovered during a routine mammogram in June and she underwent outpatient ...

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti was treated successfully for early-stage breast cancer this summer, the ...

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's top officer, received a diagnosis of stage 1 breast cancer in late ...