Navy SEAL trainees and other sailors hoping to join one of a handful of hard-charging Navy jobs have to pass many brutal fitness tests. But beginning this year, fully qualified SEALs and others in ...

Active-duty sailors will have to complete two physical fitness assessments per year starting in 2026, the Navy announced this week in a return to its pre-coronavirus pandemic fitness testing schedule.

Members of the U.S. Naval Forces Southern Command/U.S. 4th Fleet reserve unit perform pushups for their physical fitness assessment on May 15, 2022. (MC2 Daniel Cleary/U.S. Navy) The U.S. Navy ...

For a college quarterback, an invite from the Manning Passing Academy is usually too good to refuse. Being a counselor at the camp amounts to enrolling in football graduate school and learning ...

The Navy’s record-breaking recruiting numbers translated to the service’s highest production of basic training graduates in a decade with the graduation of sailors from Training Group 52, the Navy ...

The Speech/Language Genetics Lab is exploring methods to understand the link between genetics, speech and applications in communication disorders. According to Beate Peter, head of the lab and a ...

Faith Bottum’s “Life Lessons From the Cutting Edge” (op-ed, Nov. 24) reminded me of a similarly mundane awakening. It was 1972 at Navy boot camp, where we were taught the proper way to fold our ...

The yelling, the sweat, the thousand-yard stares — these movies either nailed the chaos or missed it. Every service member has a story about navigating boot camp — the sand, the blisters, the broken ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Kayakers provide safety for swimmers in the first Charleston Trident Swim, in which Navy SEALS ...

A U.S. Navy veteran reflects on life lessons learned after enlisting as a photographer in 1985. The author learned the importance of paying attention to detail after a mistake during an awards ...

The Royal Navy’s HMS Tyne and a Rattler Unmanned Surface Vehicle participate in a proof of concept exercise in the North Sea off the coast of Scotland, Oct. 28, 2025. Royal Navy photo The Royal Navy ...

A Navy sailor fresh out of boot camp rushed to save the occupant of a burning car, but the flames engulfed his mother’s vehicle during the rescue. Both the sailor and his mother were unhurt. Fireman ...