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Judge permits former Army colonel’s sex assault case against Joint Chiefs No. 2
Air Force Gen. John Hyten, who was confirmed last September as the nation's second highest-ranking military officer, flatly denied the claims during his confirmation hearing.
The Navy's dicey decision to pursue homicide charges
It’s a move that will have a potentially far-reaching impact on all services and service members up and down the chain of command.
By Military Times Editorial
Navy ship collisions prompt rare criminal charges
The Navy’s decision to charge five officers with negligent homicide for their involvement in two fatal ship crashes marks a rare legal move that, if proven, could send them to jail for up to three years.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Navy filing homicide charges for McCain, Fitzgerald commanders
In all, five officers and a chief could face courts-martial in the collisions last summer that killed 17 sailors.
MISFIRE: Looks like the Navy is lowering standards
The Navy is retaining more sailors who are failing fitness tests and not getting promoted.
By Navy Times staff
Sailors driving the McCain were not qualified to be on watch, Navy says
McCain’s bridge team was neither experienced nor qualified to the level they should have been.
By Mark D. Faram
Navy finds deep-rooted failures led to fatal collisions
Navy officialdom admits to widespread failures at the core of its most basic function: safely operating ships at sea.
By David B. Larter
Navy crews at fault in fatal collisions, investigations find
Two accidents that claimed the lives of 17 sailors resulted from complete breakdowns in standard Navy procedures and poor decision making by officers and sailors on the bridge of the two warships.
By David B. Larter
Senators: Judgment, training mistakes caused ship collisions
Lawmakers said they're worried that funding cutbacks may have contributed to a pair of accidents that killed 17 sailors this summer.
36 Fitz sailors receive Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal
The sailors were recognized for their bravery after the destroyer's fatal June 17 collision.
Navy to send destroyer to Far East to boost ballistic missile defense
Amid growing tension with North Korea, the U.S. Navy is surging a ballistic missile defense ship to the west Pacific after two catastrophic collisions this summer diminished the missile defense options there.
By Mark D. Faram