The aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln will stay in the Middle East as the U.S. bolsters its forces in the region, the Pentagon said Sunday. The announcement comes amid heightened tensions between ...

Sen. John McCain, the six-term senator from Arizona, said he was "deeply honored" to join his father and grandfather on the warship's name.

The Navy said Cameron Yaste, commanding officer of the destroyer USS John McCain, was relieved of duty “due to a loss of confidence in his ability to command the guided-missile destroyer.

The commander of a destroyer helping protect the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Middle East was relieved of duty about months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with a scope mounted backward.

The image brought the Navy considerable ridicule on social media. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that Cameron Yaste, commanding officer of the destroyer USS John McCain, was removed on Friday.

The commander of a destroyer that’s helping protect the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt during a tense deployment in the Middle East has been relieved of duty. The Navy ...

The USS John S. McCain once again made national headlines in 2019 after former President Donald Trump reportedly requested that the Navy keep the warship out of sight during his trip to Japan.

The White House wanted the USS John S. McCain "out of sight" from the president during Donald Trump's visit to a naval base in Japan in 2019, emails said.

On May 15, 2019, the White House’s military office relayed a request to “keep McCain out of sight” during the 45th president’s May 27, 2019 visit to Yokosuka Naval Base.

The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain conducts routine underway operations in December 2020. (Mass Communication Spec. 2nd Class Markus Castaneda/U.S. Navy/AP) ...

The USS John S. McCain is now docked at its new homeport, Naval Station Everett. The guided missile destroyer had been stationed in Tokyo Bay for 24 years. The warship was originally named after ...