Robert Gilbeau, a one-star admiral in the U.S. Navy, will plead guilty to his alleged role in the “Fat Leonard” scandal, which is not named after that kid who used to sit with Smelly Ryan in your middle school cafeteria every day, but a Singapore-based defense contractor who is accused of doling out bribes.

Remember Matthew Bissonnette (a.k.a. “Mark Owen”), the former Navy SEAL who helped find and kill Osama bin Laden, later wrote a book about it, and eventually came under federal investigation for allegedly mishandling classified material? Bissonnette’s increasingly complex legal ordeal initially involved the Department of Justice and U.S. Navy before it was handed over to the latter’s internal police force, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, in the summer of 2014. The N.C.I.S. probe quickly threw the small community of elite military members into chaos. SOFREP, a website catering to that community, reported at the time: “The investigation has created a massive stir among the SEAL community. Rumors and accusations are flying on social media forums, lines in the sand have been drawn and friendships have ended.”

Ten American sailors detained by Iran just hours before President Barack Obama delivered his final State of the Union address were released this morning after being accused of trespassing on Iranian waters.

After experiencing mechanical problems and drifting into Iranian waters on Tuesday, the Associated Press reports, two small U.S. Navy boats and their crews were detained and held by Iranian authorities. American officials say Tehran assures them the ten sailors will be returned safely.

The US Navy has chosen Facebook COO and corporate feminism brand ambassador Sheryl Sandberg to christen its newest attack submarine, the Virginia-class USS Massachusetts. “According to navy lore, sponsors are said to imbue a ship with their personalities,” the Associated Press reports. Lean in, sailor!

They must have roamed the internet, thirsty, like wild dogs of the African savannah, until they found it: A popular military veteran’s Facebook site, gently praising the Navy’s christening of the USS Gabrielle Giffords. It was a veritable oasis, drawing in the pack of gundamentalists: There was water here.

Proving once again that he can do anything, former pro-wrestler, Minnesota governor and balding conspiracy theorist Jesse Ventura won a defamation suit against a dead Navy SEAL Tuesday afternoon, and the dead Navy SEAL's estate now owes Jesse Ventura $1.845 million.

U.S. Navy veteran Madelynn Taylor filed a civil rights suit against the Idaho Division of Veterans Services yesterday, after her request to be buried in the state's vet cemetery with her late wife was denied. Taylor married Jean, who died in 2012, in California in 2008.

A 55-year-old guy just graduated from boot camp, 23 years after leaving "what he called 'the best job in the Navy'—a chief explosive ordnance disposal technician—for personal reasons. Or, as he put it, 'to shake off an ex-wife.'" That's Army strong℠!

Selected Air Force members, men and women, will be able to take three years off from the military to start families, a mirror of a recent pilot program by the Navy. It's a pretty novel idea. Almost as novel as paid parental leave, but not quite.

Great Britain has just certified the first three women ever to serve onboard submarines in the 110-year history of the Royal Navy's silent service. Way to go, John Bull. What the hell took you so long?

Last month, U.S. military planners were scratching their heads over why the Iranians were building a painstaking replica of a Nimitz-class American aircraft carrier, all the way down to the deck numbers. Well, it turns out Iran just really wants to make it go boom.

A sailor and a civilian were killed in a late-night shootout involving military security forces aboard a U.S. destroyer in Virginia Monday.

The US Navy determined today that their 7th Fleet, who has been involved in the search for the missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, will no longer be useful in the search.

A popular Japanese beach near the U.S. Naval Base in Yokosuka has banned beachgoers with large "scary" tattoos. Which, if by scary you mean awful, is most sailors and Marines and Guy Fieri.

Email. We love it, until it burns us. Like when you think you're sending instructions to a coworker on how to whittle down a pesky reporter's request for federal records related to the Washington Navy Yard shooting, and you realize too late that you emailed them to the reporter himself.

A civilian Navy official scored a nearly $2 million dollar contract for his ne'er-do-well mechanic brother to illegally produce "unmarked and untraceable" silencers for AK-47s, patterned after car mufflers, allegedly to sell to the Navy SEAL team that killed Osama bin Laden, according to federal court documents and a Washington Post article published today.

The Millington Navy Base in Tennessee was temporarily placed under lockdown this afternoon after a National Guardsman reportedly shot two other Guardsmen. Neither injury is life-threatening, and the suspect is now in custody.

For the second time in less than a week, a senior commander of the U.S. nuclear forces has been fired.

The superintendent of the Naval Academy ordered two former Navy football players to face court-martial for allegedly sexually assaulting a female midshipman at a party last year.