Here’s What You Need to Remember: As they each approached forty years of service, the Forrestals were decommissioned one-by-one between 1993 and 1998—but stayed busy right until then. In 1993, Ranger ...

Almost any night last week asmall, trim man with a boxer’s nose could be seen letting himself out of an office in the Pentagon Building and striding briskly down the corridor with a brief case heavy ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: The nightmarish accident, combined with two other cataclysmic carrier fires, forced the Navy to implement major reforms of its safety culture—but the Forrestal ...

Clay Jones, who is chairman/president/ CEO of Rockwell Collins, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has won the James Forrestal Industry Leadership Award from the National Defense Industrial Assn. The award ...

Today in U.S. 1779 - Capt. John Paul Jones in Continental Navy frigate Bonhomme Richard captures HMS Serapis. 1931 - Lt. Alfred Pride pilots Navy's first rotary wing aircraft, XOP-1 autogiro, in ...

In the last days of World War II and the years that followed, a handful of selfless men within the Government fought a long, grueling battle to save the nation while the nation slept. The most ...

The secretary of defense is a relatively new position. Throughout U.S. history, the responsibilities were divided into two positions: secretary of war and secretary of the Navy. President Harry Truman ...