The Navy announced that it is making promotion to E-4 -- the most junior petty officer and noncommissioned officer in its ranks -- automatic. In an administrative message released Thursday, the ...

That higher likelihood is in part due to a policy the Navy introduced this year that allows junior sailors to automatically advance to the rank of E-4 in 30 months for most career fields, as the ...

Navy officials announced Monday that the service would be canceling E-4 advancement exams for all active-duty and full-time support sailors. Advancement exams for E-4 through E-6 sailors were ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Following two ship collisions in 2017 that killed 17 sailors, the Navy took a closer look at its Surface Warfare Officers who command and operate surface ships at sea.