Navies didn’t choose gray for tradition—it was the least bad option. Before that came experiments with white, green, blue, and even pink hulls meant to disappear at dawn and dusk. And then there were ...

I’ve been sick with an invisible illness for 24 years. Today, we’d call me a “long hauler” from a virus I caught in 2001. I never regained my stamina nor lost the feeling of being sick, even though ...