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USS Nimitz waves goodbye to San Diego for likely final deployment

The Nimitz aircraft carrier, commissioned in 1975, was designed for a 50-year service life.

US shipbuilding in a ‘perpetual state of triage,’ watchdog says

Both Navy testimony and a government watchdog report this week highlighted the lackluster progress of U.S. shipbuilding during the past 20 years.

Marine Corps eyes future stability of Indo-Pacific with Balikatan 2025

This year's exercise marks 40 years of joint drills aimed at strengthening the U.S. and Philippines' defense capabilities in the Indo-Pacific.

WWII podcast sets sights on stories that offer lessons for future wars

What happens when a Navy captain and a historian walk into a bar? They come out with a hit podcast about the Pacific War.

Pentagon chief to visit Philippines for security talks, envoy says

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is scheduled to visit the Philippines, the first stop in his first trip to the Indo-Pacific next week.

GOP leaders warn Trump not to abandon NATO post, Pacific buildup plans

Republican leaders are concerned about rumored plans to scale back American military involvement in Europe and Japan.

Meet Lt. Preston, one of the only PT crewmen to be awarded the MOH

Lt. Arthur Preston and his PT boat crews did whatever it took to save a downed Navy airman in the South Pacific.

Opinion

Tiltrotor will bring the Army off the bench in the Indo-Pacific

The author of this op-ed argues the Future Long Range Assault Aircraft gives the Army a quantum leap in capability necessary to win a war in the Pacific.

This Marine endured five amphibious assaults — and survived Iwo Jima

Eighty years ago, Don Harris went ashore on Iwo Jima, where he and his fellow Marines faced one of the bloodiest battles of the Pacific War.

Coast Guard suspends search for crew member missing in Eastern Pacific

The U.S. Coast Guard suspended its search for Seaman Bryan K. Lee “pending the development of new information,” the service said.