The Gravely Celebration Experience took place on Tuesday, Feb. 25, aboard the USS Battleship Iowa, in San Pedro.

Gravely Jr. was the first African American to take command of a Navy combatant ship, and be promoted to the ranks of commander, captain, rear admiral and, finally, vice admiral. A panel discussion ...

A field trip aboard the USS Iowa provided students with an opportunity to learn about a scholarship contest honoring a trailblazing Navy leader.

Also ousted were the chief of the Navy and the vice chief of the Air ... and a senior leader in our Air Force, and an African American, many of you may be wondering what I’m thinking about ...

A day later the commandant of the coast guard, Admiral Linda Fagan ... about my air-force career where I was often the only African-American in my squadron or, as a senior officer, the only ...

WAVY’s Navy Ship Salute is a feature on WAVY News ... Gravely Jr. “The first African-American to be commissioned through a reserve officer Training Corps to command a warship, to command ...

The president fired the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as part of a stunning shake-up across the military’s senior ...

Brown Jr., a four-star fighter pilot known as C.Q. who became only the second African American to hold the chairman ... Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to lead the Navy; Gen.

The Navy’s top admiral and a senior Air Force general also were dismissed as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth moves to align ...