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ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Midshipman Sydney Barber had her doubts about applying for the top student leadership position at the U.S. Naval Academy. A Black woman had never held the post in the 44 years women have been able to attend the 175-year-old institution. A Black academy alumna of another generation saw her potential. Navy […]

HONOLULU (AP) — The U.S. Navy is expected to honor a World War II hero when a new aircraft carrier is named for Mess Attendant 2nd Class Doris Miller. The announcement is expected to be made at Pearl Harbor Monday, The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Friday. SIGN UP FOR OUR NEWSLETTER:  Miller was the first African […]

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The Navy says it will now allow servicewomen to sport ponytails and other hairstyles, reversing a policy that long forbade females from letting their hair down. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson said it makes the Navy more inclusive. Many black women had asked for changes to the female grooming […]

The midshipman has a past of misbehavior.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — It turned out to be the international crisis that wasn’t. Less than a day after 10 U.S. Navy sailors were detained in Iran when their boats drifted into Iranian waters, they and their vessels were back safely Wednesday with the American fleet. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry tapped […]

A woman who is in the Navy is in a romance with a fellow officer who gives her the royal treatment during the weekend, but disappears on the weekends! What should this D.L. Hughley Show listener do? Listen to the audio below as Dr. Jennifer Verdolin, an animal behavior expert and author of Wild Connections, explains how to […]

Most branches of the military are getting with the times and loosening up their standards about what kinds of hairstyles women are allowed to wear.…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Navy has its first female four-star admiral. She is Michelle Janine Howard, promoted on Tuesday to the service’s highest rank. The ceremony was held at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at the Arlington National Cemetery, near the Pentagon. She will serve as the vice chief of naval operations, […]

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — A sailor was fatally shot aboard a guided-missile destroyer docked at the world’s largest naval base late Monday, and security forces killed the lone suspect, according to the Navy. The suspect was a civilian who had access to be at Naval Station Norfolk, spokeswoman Terri David said early Tuesday. She said […]

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Drugs were in the room where two former Navy SEALs were found dead aboard the Maersk Alabama, a ship that was the focus of a 2009 hijacking dramatized in the movie “Captain Phillips,” a company spokesman said Thursday. Police from the African island nation of Seychelles have given no cause of […]

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Marcus Harris had just ended a 9-month deployment from USS Barry in Norfolk, Va and was embraced by the…

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Nicknamed “Fat Leonard,” the gregarious Malaysian businessman is well known by U.S. Navy commanders in the Pacific, where his company has serviced warships for 25 years. But prosecutors in court papers say Leonard Francis worked his connections to obtain military secrets by lining up prostitutes, Lady Gaga tickets and other bribes […]