Flashback: It’s been 70 years since V-J Day and the kissing sailor

US Navy eyes port stops in Africa, India after USS Abraham Lincoln’s marathon deployment

The Navy’s top admiral says the service is changing how it does pre-deployment stocking and resupply and looking at different places to make port calls.
American flags lowered to half-staff at military installations in honor of Dolly Parton

American flags domestically and abroad will be lowered to half-staff until Sept. 1 in honor of country singer Dolly Parton, who passed Tuesday.
Marines, corpsmen ‘ran toward’ Twentynine Palms home rocked by explosion

On Aug. 21, an explosion rocked a house in Twentynine Palms, California. Local Marines and Navy corpsmen “quickly ran toward it.”
Navy instructs troops, families to scrub social media of personal information

The Navy asked military personnel and their families to remove information from their social media that shows an affiliation with the Navy.