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December 16, 2013
theGRIO REPORT - President Obama nominated Navy Vice Adm. Michelle Howard for the appointment to the rank of admiral, making…
November 8, 2013
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The family of a woman slain during the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard is…
September 17, 2013
TODAY - A now-iconic image emerged from the Washington Navy Yard shooting Monday: A civilian helping a blind colleague exit…
September 16, 2013
NBC NEWS - A former naval petty officer packing an assault rifle and two other guns sprayed an office building…
September 16, 2013
NBC News - A gunman shot at least seven people, including two police officers, on Monday at a Navy facility…
July 23, 2013
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — Two years after he made history by becoming the Navy's first black pilot, Ensign Jesse…
November 5, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - A Navy veteran who was charged with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer is claiming she…
October 2, 2012
Military Times - Men and women in the armed forces have lower rates of most cancers -- except breast cancer,…
September 26, 2012
theGRIO REPORT - The percentage of age-eligible civilians exceeding the weight and fat standards for admission into United States Military…
July 26, 2012
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) - The Navy's first African-American aviator to fly in combat was calm when he crashed his plane…
January 12, 2012
R&B star Rihanna, who will be seen playing a female sailor in her debut film Battleship, says her character took…
December 27, 2011
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A black Navy veteran credited with saving the lives of some of his shipmates during a…
November 24, 2011
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama has telephoned 10 U.S. service members stationed abroad to wish them a happy Thanksgiving…
November 12, 2011
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The widow of Medgar Evers broke a bottle of champagne against the hull of a new…
September 16, 2011
VIDEO - Eye surgeon Brian Boxer Wachler was wrapping up a day of work last month when an unusual letter…
February 16, 2011
VIDEO - John Moton, who served in the Navy from 1939 until 1945, was on the second deck of the…
November 11, 2010
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) - Almost 100 years after his death, a black Union Civil War vet from South Carolina finally…
July 14, 2010
OPINION - Military commanders taking temperature readings on social issues is potentially dangerous...
February 5, 2010
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) -- Jesse L. Brown, the first black naval aviator, and the first to die serving his country,…
January 5, 2010
A recent study published in the American Academy of Pediatrics puts in writing what Navy families have known for years…