The city of Prattville has its own anchor man. David Reid is a Navy man to the core. “I was in 20 years from September of 1964 to 1984. I was a cryptologist.” He spent a lot of time on the water.

One vessel was renamed the USS Robert Smalls after a former slave who aided the Union in the Civil War, and the other was restyled the USNS Marie Tharp in honor of a ground-breaking oceanographic ...

She became a legalman in 2008 and has served two of her 18 years in the Navy aboard the Ronald Reagan. For Lt. Cmdr. Jesse Crider, who also mounted the anchor to administer the oath, the ...