WAVY’s Navy Ship Salute is a feature on WAVY News ... Below deck, near the mess hall, Gravely has its own ship store, bringing familiar goods from home to deployment. “So what we do is that ...

The Royal Navy has allowed officers to wear saris in order to make its formal dress code more “inclusive”. Officers are now permitted to wear cultural dress beneath their mess jackets on ...

He had joined up at 19, signing on as a mess attendant in a segregated branch of the Navy, serving aboard the USS West Virginia, which carried him all the way to Pearl Harbor. When the Japanese ...