Ship's Log
USS Iwo Jima LHD-7: The 2006 Lebanon Evacuation and the...
USS Iwo Jima helped evacuate more than 14,000 Americans from Beirut during the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war, using her amphibious assault capabilities for one of the largest NEOs in Navy history.
USS Enterprise CV-6: Twenty Battle Stars and the Ship That...
USS Enterprise CV-6 earned twenty battle stars in World War II, fighting from Pearl Harbor through Midway, Guadalcanal, and Leyte Gulf as the most decorated ship in Navy history.
The Rack: Sleep, Berthing, and Life Below Decks in the...
A Navy rack is a thirty-inch-wide bunk shared by dozens in a berthing compartment, sometimes hot-racked between watches. Life below decks, and why sailors remember it so precisely.
USS Cole DDG-67: The Attack in Aden Harbor and the...
On October 12, 2000, al-Qaeda bombed USS Cole in Aden harbor, killing seventeen sailors. The crew's damage control kept the destroyer afloat and she returned to service in 2002.
USS Hartford SSN-768: Life Aboard a Los Angeles-Class Fast Attack...
USS Hartford, a Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine, ran classified Cold War and post-Cold War patrols before colliding with USS New Orleans in the Strait of Hormuz in 2009.
POW/MIA Recognition Day: The Navy's Missing and the Promise Not...
POW/MIA Recognition Day honors the Navy's unaccounted-for prisoners of war and missing in action, from Vietnam-era aviators to World War II losses still being identified by the DPAA today.