Military weapons don’t change unless the battlefield forces them to. For Navy SEALs, that pressure came as warfare moved indoors, after dark, and into environments where adaptability mattered more ...

The Navy has a new fitness test for active-duty “combat arms personnel,” including members of Naval Special Warfare and Naval Special Operations commands. It is called the Navy Combat Fitness Test ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Special Warfare Combat Crewman trainees face rigorous training, but they, and other combat arms sailors must now take an annual on ...

Combat rarely unfolds as a sequence of clean, deliberate actions. For Navy SEALs, engagements are defined by seconds-long ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Sailor conducts her physical fitness assessment. (MC3 Julio Martinez Martinez/U.S.

The U.S. Navy has introduced new evaluation standards to measure the physical readiness of combat arms personnel such as SEALs and explosive ordnance disposal service members. The service released a ...

Navy SEALs are known for operating under the radar. They are an elite and highly-trained military force that specializes in conducting secretive missions, including insertions and extractions, often ...

Long-range marksmanship is one of the most demanding skills in the SEAL arsenal, and the rifle a sniper brings to ...

Everything was set for the Navy officer to take over a new role that would have capped an already distinguished career— and made her the first woman in a Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy ...

On Dec. 19, 1941, in the pre-dawn darkness, six Italian commandos slipped into Alexandria harbor in Egypt. British troops and sailors had spotted an Italian reconnaissance plane days earlier, and ...