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The USS aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower sails in the Red Sea on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. The USS Dwight D. Eisenhower may be one of the oldest aircraft carriers in the U.S. Navy, but it’s still fighting — despite repeated false claims by Yemen’s Houthi rebels. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

U.S. aircraft carrier counters false Houthi claims with ‘Taco Tuesdays’ as deployment stretches on

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

An HSC-7 helicopter lands on the Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Laboon in the Red Sea, Wednesday on June 12, 2024. The U.S.-led campaign against Iran-backed Houthi rebels has turned into the most intense running sea battle the Navy has faced since World War II. That's what its leaders and experts tell The Associated Press, whose journalists visited U.S. ships off Yemen in recent days. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

U.S. Navy faces its most intense combat since World War II against Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

A U.S. MV-22 Osprey aircraft flies around the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Ginowan, Okinawa, southern Japan Thursday, March 14, 2024. The U.S. and Japanese militaries resumed flights of Osprey aircraft in Japan. (Kyodo News via AP)

Navy: Troubled V-22 Osprey to face flight restrictions through 2025 over safety concerns

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Then-Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David H. Berger testifies during the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Department of the Navy's budget request for fiscal year 2024, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Marines getting new amphibious ship designed for critical China mission

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

CORRECTS THE SOURCE - In this photo released by Fire & Rescue Department of Malaysia, fire and rescue department inspect the crash site of two helicopter in Lumur, Perak state, Monday, April 23, 2024. Malaysia's navy says two military helicopters collided and crashed during a training session, killing all 10 people on board. (Fire & Rescue Department of Malaysia via AP)

2 Malaysian military helicopters collide and crash while training, killing all 10 crew

By Eileen Ng - Associated Press

A Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force vessel sails near the site of a crash in the Pacific Ocean Sunday, April 21, 2024. Two Japanese navy helicopters carrying eight crew members crashed in the Pacific Ocean south of Tokyo during a nighttime training flight after possibly colliding with each other, the country's defense minister said Sunday. (Kyodo News via AP)

2 Japanese navy helicopters crash in the Pacific Ocean during training, leaving 1 dead and 7 missing

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Airman 1st Class D'elbrah Assamoi, from Cote D'Ivoire, signs her U.S. certificate of citizenship after the Basic Military Training Coin Ceremony at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, in San Antonio, April 26, 2023. The Army and Air Force say they are on track to meet their recruiting goals in 2024, reversing previous shortfalls using a swath of new programs and policy changes. But the Navy, while improving, expects once again to fall short. (Vanessa R. Adame/U.S. Air Force via AP, File)

Army and Air Force say recruiting outlook is getting better, but Navy still falling short

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Lou Conter, an Arizona crewman, attends ceremonies for the 75th anniversary of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 2016, in Honolulu. Conter, the last living survivor of the USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, died on Monday, April 1, 2024, following congestive heart failure, his daughter said. He was 102. (Craig T. Kojima/Honolulu Star-Advertiser via AP, Pool, File)

Lou Conter, last survivor of USS Arizona, which sank during Pearl Harbor attack, dies

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

A U.S. military CV-22 Osprey takes off from Iwakuni base, Yamaguchi prefecture, western Japan, on July 4, 2018. Air Force Special Operations Command said Tuesday it knows what failed on its CV-22B Osprey leading to a November crash in Japan that killed eight service members. But it still does not know why the failure happened. Because of the crash almost the entire Osprey fleet, hundreds of aircraft across the Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy, has been grounded since Dec. 6. (Kyodo News via AP) **FILE**

Pentagon to lift ban on V-22 Osprey flights, 3 months after fatal crash in Japan

Associated Press

United States Navy sailors carry a U.S. flag during Opening Day celebrations before the San Diego Padres play the Atlanta Braves in a baseball game Thursday, April 14, 2022, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)

New Navy regs allow sailors to keep their hands in pockets, wear false eyelashes

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

The USS Paul Hamilton is seen after passing through the Strait of Hormuz, May 19, 2023. The U.S. Navy is starting to enlist individuals who didn’t graduate from high school or get a GED, marking the second time in about a year that the service has opened the door to lower-performing recruits as it struggles to meet enlistment goals.. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell)

No diploma? No problem! Navy again lowers requirements as it struggles to meet recruitment goals

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

This undated photograph released by the U.S. military's Central Command shows what it is described as the vessel that carried Iranian-made missile components bound for Yemen's Houthi in the Arabian Sea. U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen's Houthi rebels in a raid that saw two of its commandos go missing, the U.S. military said Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2024. (U.S. Central Command via AP)

Death on the Arabian Sea: How a Navy SEAL fell into rough waters and another died trying to save him

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

U.S. Navy Vice Adm. Brad Cooper, who heads the Navy's Bahrain-based 5th Fleet, speaks at an event at the International Defense Exhibition and Conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, Feb. 21, 2023. Iran is "very directly involved" in attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels on shipping over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Cooper told The Associated Press on Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Jon Gambrell, File)

Iran is ‘directly involved’ in Yemen Houthi rebel ship attacks, U.S. Navy’s Mideast chief tells AP

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese naval frigate Binzhou takes part in joint naval drills with Russian warships in the East China Sea on Dec. 27, 2022. The head of the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command said Monday, Dec. 18, 2023, he is “very concerned” about increased joint military actions by China and Russia in the region. (Xu Wei/Xinhua via AP, File)

Congress, Pentagon at odds over Pacific task force needed to prep for China war

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese Coast Guard ship, left, uses its water cannons on a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessel as it approaches Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea on Saturday Dec. 9, 2023. The Philippines and its treaty ally, the United States, separately condemned a high-seas assault Saturday by the Chinese coast guard and suspected militia ships that repeatedly blasted water cannons to block three Philippine fisheries vessels from a disputed shoal in the South China Sea. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

Increased military exercises with Pacific allies seek to deter China, top U.S. admiral says

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times