Arthur P. Barrett Jr. served on the USS De Haven, a destroyer he and his father helped build at Bath Iron Works.

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For decades, the Navy SEALs have been among the most recognized names of the U.S. military's elite warfighters. This month marks 64 years since the ...

On December 7, 1941, the Japanese launched a surprise military strike on the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, ...

Capt. Jonathan Furlong, a U.S. Army diver based in Hawaii, has deployed all around the Pacific and Asia. But no country or mission he’s been to has been like his current assignment in Palau, where’s ...

The blast consumed everyone near the bow. No witnesses survived to explain what triggered the detonation. A fireball erupted ...

Twenty-seven cavalrymen charged Japanese infantry at Morong, Philippines, on January 16, 1942. They scattered hundreds of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crowd observes christening ceremony for the USS Idaho (SSN 799) - Joshua Karsten/U.S. Navy/Wikimedia Commons The United States ...

The U.S. military said Monday it had targeted another alleged drug-smuggling boat in the eastern Pacific, killing two “narco-terrorists” as it continued its counternarcotics campaign off the coast of ...

President Donald Trump issued a stern warning to Iran Monday, threatening military action if the country attempts to rebuild its nuclear weapons program. President Trump says he would use military ...

President Donald Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela has emerged as a flash point in the closely watched Republican primary campaign between Kentucky U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie, a long-running ...