Conceived at the end of World War II and commissioned just after it, the Midway-class—Midway, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Coral Sea—were the U.S. Navy’s first “big deck” carriers with armored flight ...

The U.S. has deployed ships, a submarine, and air assets, already striking illicit shipments as tensions with Venezuela rise.

Cmdr. Adam Ochs was relieved of command of the USS Santa Barbara, a littoral combat ship deployed to the Navy's 5th Fleet area of operations.