For the last two weeks, CIMSEC featured short stories submitted in response to our Call for Fiction. Authors explored a wide ...

“Handshake confirmed,” Lieutenant Parodi reported from the copilot seat, his voice low. “Relax Juan, the drones won’t hear us. Let’s get on the deck.” Commander Valerie Cunningham smirked. Still her ...

The bridge of the offshore patrol vessel Frosch smelled of diesel and wet steel — the residue of a storm that had just lashed the Barents Sea with four-meter-high waves. Commander Jonas Meyer bent ...

The ocean was calm off the coast of Virginia as Jake settled into his captain’s chair on the bridge wing of his Navy destroyer. The morning breeze was fresh and chilly, and he tucked his exposed neck ...

Commander Dave Anderson stared into the retina scanner on the bulkhead outside SUPPLOT. He heard the hissing of a basilisk as the air pressure changed in the space between the two doors to the ship’s ...

“Say again, Commander?” Admiral Dale Lee gave his operations officer a quizzical look. “Well sir, with the GPS network out of action and dead reckoning iffy, they could replace charted radio beacons ...

Today would not be the first time two women, three mothers, seven children, and one grandchild mourned. And of course, not the last time. United States Coast Guard The sea lies like amazonite beneath ...

Detlev Ganzhorn, grandfather of seven and a 30-year Navy veteran, handed the latest addition to his family to his son-in-law and got up to go to the door. A black SUV with government plates stopped in ...

The pilot boat’s horn cut twice, a warning that flattened chatter across the lock wall. LT Mara Delgado raised her head from the operations console as a bright speck wavered over the Miraflores ...

Walker interviews U.S. Coast Guard Commander Steven Hulse about his Proceedings article, “Bases on the Aleutians Islands Would Project Power Across the Pacific.” Hulse discusses his own experience ...