The America has been conducting two major patrols per year, a heavy operational tempo that contributes to the sort of ...

The America-class amphibious assault carrier USS Tripoli leaves San Diego Bay on May 19. (Photo by Sara L. Eshleman/U.S. Navy) The Navy’s two newest amphibious assault ships, the USS America and USS ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The amphibious assault ship USS America arrived to its homeport in San Diego in late September after a six-year deployment in the Indo-Pacific region. Sailors aboard the USS ...

San Diego’s General Dynamics-NASSCO will get nearly $200 million from the U.S. Defense Department to repair and upgrade the amphibious assault ship USS America, one of the largest and most versatile ...

An F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 242, launches from the flight deck of the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA-6) while ...

The U.S. has deployed a major Caribbean task force near Venezuela, including the USS Iwo Jima and six destroyers.

PACIFIC OCEAN (Feb. 13, 2017) The weapons department aboard the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) conducts a four-day ammunition on load during a vertical replenishment with Helicopter Sea ...

Yeoman Seaman Recruit Rashidah King, from Mobile, Ala., left, shows Personnel Specialist 2nd Class Romualdo Paulino, from Wynne, Ark., how to fill out a zone inspection discrepancy list during a zone ...