For a military history buff and Navy officer really into civil engineering, Cmdr. Tim Wallace says these are exciting days to be a Seabee — one of the team of sailors who build the things onshore that ...

AL-ASAD, Iraq — In the faces of the boys at the chow hall, Teresa Dougherty sees her own son. “And I think, ‘Please don’t let him join the Marines,’” she said. “I wouldn’t want him here. “I look at it ...

But when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7 of that year and the United States was thrust into war, the call went out for skilled tradesmen to join the Navy, so as to become part of the sea ...

Don Carragher, 90, of St. Augustine, was just 17 years old when he went off to join the U.S. Navy in World War II. The kid from Newark, N.J., had already been through plenty before taking on the harsh ...

"Right now, coming into Iraq, I was a little in suspense, not know what to expect. But as we came across the border, seeing all the Iraqi citizens happy for us to be here, it made me feel a little ...

Before heading back to the Naval Base at Port Hueneme, Construction Mechanic 2nd Class Russell Alber visited the place where his U.S. Navy career began — the deck of the former USS LCI (L) 1091. Alber ...

LEE — By the time Christopher St. Clair Boswell looked back at his photographs of the Caribbean, nearly seven decades had passed. The images were captured during his military service in the U.S. Navy ...

A 20-year-old Seabee told authorities that he shot and killed a Camarillo man after he was recruited for the crime and supplied with the gun by a female sailor, who is also implicated in the slaying ...