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Staff Sgt. Travis Snyder, left, receives the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine given at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, Dec. 16, 2020, south of Seattle. The Army says 98% of its active duty force had gotten at least one dose of the mandatory coronavirus vaccine as of this week’s deadline for the shots. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) ** FILE **

Inside U.S. troops’ fight against the Pentagon’s ‘unjust’ COVID-19 vaccine mandate

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This Monday May 4, 2020, photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows SEAL candidates participating in &quot;surf immersion&quot; during Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training at the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) Center in Coronado, Calif. Navy SEAL recruits and their instructors are being tested for the coronavirus as the candidates in one of the military's most grueling programs return to training with new social distancing guidelines, a top official said Tuesday, May 5, 2020. (MC1 Anthony Walker/U.S. Navy via AP)

Navy SEAL candidate dies, another hospitalized after grueling Hell Week training

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A tunnel inside the Red Hill Underground Fuel Storage Facility is seen in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Jan. 26, 2018. The U.S. Navy will comply with Hawaii's order to remove fuel from a massive underground storage tank facility near Pearl Harbor blamed for contaminating drinking water, officials said Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022. (U.S. Navy via AP, File)

Navy begins draining millions of gallons of treated water after fuel leak in Hawaii

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A health care worker fills a syringe with the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on Oct. 5, 2021. The Navy said Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, that it has discharged 23 active-duty sailors for refusing the coronavirus vaccine, marking the first time it has thrown currently serving sailors out of the military over the mandatory shots. It comes as the number of service members being discharged across the services due to the vaccine begins to climb. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) **FILE**

Navy discharges 1st active-duty sailors for vaccine refusal

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Sailors and Marines line the deck of aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) as it deploys from San Diego on Monday, Jan. 3, 2021. The USS Abraham Lincoln deployed Monday from Naval Air Station North Island as part of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, under the command of Capt. Amy Bauernschmidt, the first woman to lead a nuclear carrier in U.S. Navy history. (K.C. Alfred/The San Diego Union-Tribune via AP) ** FILE **

Navy seized record amounts of drugs, weapons in the Middle East last year

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This photo provided by Virginia State Police shows the wreckage of a Navy helicopter after making an emergency landing in Isle of Wight County, Va. The helicopter hit several trees as it made an emergency landing, leaving a passenger with minor injuries, Virginia State Police said. (Virginia State Police via AP)

Navy helicopter crashes near Norfolk, Va.

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this July 24, 2017, file photo, the USS Constitution, the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat, is docked at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Navy Cmdr. Billie Farrell to be first female skipper of USS Constitution

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Dec. 11, 2021 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Mobile Diving Salvage Unit One performs inspection and sampling of a water well near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. U.S. Navy divers are trying to remove fuel from a water water shaft at Red Hill near Hawaii's Pearl Harbor. Divers are beginning to make progress and are now able to start &quot;skimming&quot; contaminants that have floated to the surface. The water supply serves about 93,000 people. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aja Bleu Jackson via AP)

Hawaii orders Navy to shut down WWII-era leaking fuel tanks

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Staff Sgt. Travis Snyder, left, receives the first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine given at Madigan Army Medical Center at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, Dec. 16, 2020, south of Seattle. The Army says 98% of its active duty force had gotten at least one dose of the mandatory coronavirus vaccine as of this week’s deadline for the shots. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) ** FILE **

Federal court sides with Navy SEALs seeking religious exemption to COVID-19 vaccination order

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

In this Sept. 2, 2019, file photo, the USS Montgomery, one of the ships that will participate in Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN-U.S. Maritime Exercise is docked in Sattahip, Thailand. USNI News said the littoral combat ship USS Montgomery and replenishment ship USNS Cesar Chavez conducted a patrol on Thursday, May 7, 2020. near the Panamanian-flagged drill ship West Capella, which has been contracted by Malaysian state oil company Petronas to conduct surveys within Malaysia’s exclusive economic zone.(AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe, File)

Captain, second-in-command of Navy ship fired

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Navy SEALs participate in the capabilities exercise portion of the 43rd annual Underwater Demolition Team (UDT)-Sea, Air and Land (SEAL) East Coast Reunion at Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story in Virginia Beach, Va. on July 21, 2012. The annual reunion started in 1969 and has expanded into a weekend of events, contests, and a SEAL capabilities exercise. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anthony Harding/Released)

Dick Marcinko, founding commander of SEAL Team 6, dies at 81

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

George Worthington Portrait by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

George R. Worthington: A quiet warrior passes

By Jed Babbin

Freedom-class littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS 5). Milwaukee is underway conducting routine exercises in the Atlantic Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Anderson W. Branch/Released)

Sidelined at Guantanamo, nearly a quarter of USS Milwaukee warship crew positive for COVID-19

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Navy personnel prepare for the opening of a mass COVID-19 vaccination site in the Queens borough of New York, Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2021. This FEMA-run site, along with another in Brooklyn, gives priority to local residents in an effort to equitably distribute the vaccine. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, Pool) **FILE**

U.S. Navy warship sidelined with COVID-19 outbreak

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

In this April 14, 2017, photo, as crew members stand on the deck, the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford heads to the Norfolk, Va., naval station. Toilets on the USS Gerald R. Ford and USS George H.W. Bush carriers that have become repeatedly clogged could require treatments costing $400,000 each to get them working properly, a U.S. Government Accountability Office report found. (Bill Tiernan/The Virginian-Pilot via AP) **FILE**

Troubled Navy aircraft carrier moves closer to first deployment

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the U.S. Navy, a stateless fishing vessel, right, is interdicted by USS vessels while transiting international waters in the North Arabian Sea on Dec. 20, 2021. The U.S. Navy seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen, it said late Wednesday, Dec. 22. (U.S. Navy via AP)

U.S. Navy says it seizes arms from Iran likely bound for Yemen

By Isabel Debre - Associated Press

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin speaks during a meeting with Lithuania's Minister of Defense Arvydas Anusauskas at the Pentagon in Washington, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Defense secretary monitoring Navy fuel spill in Hawaii

Associated Press

In this Dec. 11, 2021 photo provided by the U.S. Navy, Mobile Diving Salvage Unit One performs inspection and sampling of a water well near Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. U.S. Navy divers are trying to remove fuel from a water water shaft at Red Hill near Hawaii's Pearl Harbor. Divers are beginning to make progress and are now able to start &quot;skimming&quot; contaminants that have floated to the surface. The water supply serves about 93,000 people. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Aja Bleu Jackson via AP)

Navy dive team is trying to remove fuel from Hawaii water

Associated Press

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin pauses while speaking during a media briefing at the Pentagon on Nov. 17, 2021, in Washington. Oklahoma's Republican governor and the state attorney general are suing in federal court to exempt the state's National Guard from a Biden administration COVID-19 vaccine mandate. Gov. Kevin Stitt argued in a statement Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021, that the Biden administration's Defense Department overstepped its constitutional authority by subjecting the National Guard to the mandate it imposed on the active-duty military. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Austin vows to address Navy families’ contaminated water supply at Pearl Harbor

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this July 12, 2020, file photo, smoke rises from the USS Bonhomme Richard after an explosion and fire on board the ship at Naval Base San Diego. A sailor is getting a first court hearing Monday at the U.S. Navy’s base in San Diego, California over allegations that he started the fire in July 2020 that resulted in the total loss of the USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault ship. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)

Navy holds hearing for sailor accused of torching Bonhomme Richard warship

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times