The Boxer was accompanied by the amphibious transport dock shop USS Somerset and dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry, both of which returned earlier to San Diego. “Together, the entire 15th MEU ...

USS Boxer also worked with allies from Japan and New Zealand during the deployment. In September, they sailed alongside the JS Kongo, a guided-missile destroyer from Japan's Maritime Self-Defense ...

U.S. Navy snipers fatally shot three pirates holding an American cargo-ship captain hostage after seeing that one of the pirates "had an AK-47 leveled at the captain's back," a military official said ...

In 2022, Congress mandated the Navy keep a minimum of 31 amphibs in its fleet after the service had tried to divest six of ...