The Seabees are renovating a building for the Aplaya Elementary School as part of a Construction Civic Activity Detail (CCAD) in Puerto Princesa City...

Sailors aboard amphibious dock landing ship USS Tortuga (LSD 46), along with Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), completed amphibious integration training (AIT), Jan. 30, while on patrol in the 7th Fleet area of operations...

A team of U.S. Navy salvage experts have been meticulously scouring the damaged USS Guardian (MCM 5), safely transferring anything deemed potentially harmful to prepare the grounded ship to be removed from Tubbataha Reef...

Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 5 arrived in Chiang Mai, Thailand to begin construction of a schoolhouse at the Ban Piang Rat School Jan. 19. The Seabees are working alongside the Royal Thai Air Force to complete the project as part of Exercise Cobra Gold 2013...

The U.S. Navy and Timorese Navy commenced the first Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Timor-Leste exercise Jan. 25, with an opening ceremony held at Port Hera Navy Base...

To prevent potential environmental damage, a U.S. Navy-led salvage team on Jan. 25 completed removing all diesel fuel from the tanks of the mine countermeasures ship USS Guardian (MCM 5), which ran aground on the Tubbataha Reef one week earlier...

The guided-missile frigate is set to be decommissioned during a Jan. 25 ceremony in San Diego...

USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) departed Sasebo, Japan, Jan. 24, for training and operations in 7th Fleet...

Command of Task Force 70, responsible for the operations of aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers and frigates in U.S. 7th Fleet, changed hands Jan. 23 aboard USS George Washington in Yokosuka, Japan...

The U.S. 7th Fleet commander on Saturday expressed regret over the grounding of USS Guardian on Tubbataha Reef in the Sulu Sea...

Inaccurate data in digital nautical charts may have been a factor in the grounding...

The Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine arrived at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Jan. 18 after completing a homeport shift from Guam...

While the U.S. Navy continues operations to free the grounded USS Guardian (MCM 5) from Tubbataha Reef, all 79 crew members were temporarily removed today and safely transferred by small boat to the nearby support vessels USNS Bowditch (T-AGS 62) and MSV C-Champion...

In order to ensure the safety of the crew, most of the Sailors aboard the mine countermeasures ship USS Guardian (MCM 5) are being transferred to a support vessel. The Sasebo-based Guardian ran aground on Tubbataha Reef while transiting the Sulu Sea on Jan. 17...

No one was hurt when the mine countermeasures ship USS Guardian (MCM 5) ran aground on Tubbataha Reef at 2:25 a.m. local time, Jan. 17, while transiting the Sulu Sea...

The forward deployed dock landing ship, part of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group (ARG), departed Sasebo, Japan, Jan. 15, for its spring patrol in the 7th Fleet area of operations...

Fire Controlman 2nd Class Ronald Barbee was the Navy recepient of the award, which recognizes leadership and personal contribution to missile defense efforts...

Part of the Bonhomme Richard Amphibious Ready Group, the ship departed Sasebo, Japan, Jan. 14 for its spring patrol in the 7th Fleet area of operations...

Three San-Diego based destroyers will depart Jan. 14 to join Everett-based USS Shoup for a Nimitz Strike Group Surface Action Group deployment to the Western Pacific...

The commanders of U.S. Fleet Forces and U.S. Pacific Fleet distributed a message to commanders and commanding officers Jan. 11 that announces the agendas of two uniform working groups...