Carrier Air Wing Eight returns from 7-month deployment
Hundreds of men and women with Carrier Air Wing Eight began returning home Thursday from a seven-month deployment. A majority of the squadrons arrived on Friday.
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Researchers find wreckage of lost WWII warship
Naval researchers announced Saturday that they have found the wreckage of the lost World War II cruiser USS Indianapolis on the floor of the Pacific Ocean, 72 years after the vessel sank in minutes after it was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship was found almost 3 1/2 miles below the surface of the Philippine Sea, said a tweet from Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen, who led a team of civilian researchers that made the discovery.
Search for missing aviators extends to Kauai shoreline
An air crewmember aboard a Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter scans the water off Oahu on Friday for any sign of five missing aviators from a downed Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter. No signs were found this morning of the aviators who went missing Tuesday night during training.
Steve Bannon Is Desperate To Persuade Us That He Wasn’t Fired Just For Being Steve Bannon
Stephen K. Bannon, the embattled chief strategist who helped President Trump win the 2016 election but clashed for months with other senior West Wing advisers, is leaving his post, a White House spokeswoman announced Friday. John F. Kelly, the retired four-star Marine Corps general brought in late last month as White House chief of staff, has been contemplating dramatic changes to West Wing staffing that included firing Bannon .... "This was without question one man's decision: Kelly.
Billionaire Discovers WW2-Era USS Indianapolis in Philippine Sea
A US Navy cruiser sunk by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945 was found on Saturday by a research team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and historians from the Naval History and Heritage Command, ending a 72 year mystery. The USS Indianapolis had just completed a clandestine mission to drop off certain components for the atomic bomb to be dropped on Hiroshima.
Woman’s SWAT selection advances women’s police roles
San Juan County Sheriffs Office Deputy Robyn Roe poses for a portrait, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017 in Aztec, N.M. Roe recently became the first female SWAT operator for the department. less San Juan County Sheriffs Office Deputy Robyn Roe poses for a portrait, Friday, Aug. 11, 2017 in Aztec, N.M. Roe recently became the first female SWAT operator for the department.
More delays for low-flying fighters over western Maine
In this Dec. 2001 file photograph, an F-16 takes off with afterburners glowing loaded with live Sidewinder missiles from the Air National Guard base in South Burlington, Vt. A National Guard proposal to expand airspace for fighter jet training flights low over the mountains of western Maine has dragged on for so long that many of the aircraft could be retired around the time the process is completed.
Helicopter crew had life vests, air bottles during crash
Honolulu ocean safety lifeguards on jet skis hand over materials to military personnel stationed at a command center at a boat harbor, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, in Haleiwa, Hawaii. An Army helicopter with five on board crashed several miles off Oahu's North Shore late Tuesday.
Trump dumps Bannon, who returns to conservative website
Bannon, a forcefu... . In this photo taken June 1, 2017, Steve Bannon is seen at the White House in Washington.
American strength lies in pluralism
I've been on the road since the Charlottesville killing. I am traveling around the Arab world and Afghanistan with the chief of the U.S. Air Force, Gen.
Lowry: Presidency as platform for ‘alt-right’
If Van Jones was right, that a moving tribute to the widow of a fallen Navy SEAL in a speech to Congress earlier this year was the moment Donald Trump became president, Trump's news conference on Tuesday was the moment he became a Breitbart contributing editor. Charlottesville, Va., has been a diminishing event for President Trump.
Santa Barbara Post Office Building Renamed for Navy SEAL
A fallen United States Navy SEAL and Santa Barbara native was honored at a ceremony Thursday at the United States Postal Service office in Victoria Court, after legislation was passed to rename the facility in his honor. The office at 1221 State St., Suite 12, will be renamed the Special Warfare Operator Master Chief Petty Officer Louis "Lou" J. Langlais Post Office Building.
Woman, 37, missing nearly four days is rescued in Oregon
The mother of two was rescused Wednesday by the U.S. Coast Guard along Highway 101 near Sea Lion Caves in Oregon A mother missing for nearly four days was rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard on a cliff along the Oregon coast Wednesday. Heather Mounce was reported missing after family members had not heard from her since Saturday in Dallas, which is roughly 15 miles west of Salem.
Dozen US sailors to be punished for June collision: US Navy
In this June 18, 2017, file photo, damaged USS Fitzgerald is docked at the US Naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, after colliding with Philippine-flagged container ship ACX Crystal off Japan. About a dozen US sailors are expected to face punishment for a collision in June between the USS Fitzgerald and a Philippines cargo ship, including the warship's commanding officer and other senior leaders of the ship, the Navy said on Thursday.
Legal Niceties: ‘Navy to Commission Middle East-based Expeditionary…
"We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
Alabama man reportedly on missing Army helicopter; search continues off coast of Hawaii
An Alabama man has been identified as one of five crew members reported missing after their Army helicopter went down off the coast of Hawaii. Brian Woeber, originally of Decatur, was on board the helicopter that was reported down late Tuesday night, according to social media postings from family and friends.
5 missing after Army helicopter goes down off Hawaii
U.S. Coast Guard and military crews are searching the ocean off Hawaii for five crewmembers of an Army helicopter that reportedly went down during a training exercise, authorities said Wednesday. Officials at Wheeler Army Airfield near Honolulu reported losing communications around 10 p.m. Tuesday with the crew of a UH-60 Black Hawk, the Coast Guard said in a news release.
US, China reach deal to reduce miscalculation
Top US and Chinese military commanders signed a deal in Beijing Tuesday to improve communications between the two forces amid ongoing disputes in the South and East China Seas. US Marines General Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and his Chinese counterpart General Fang Fenghui signed the joint strategic dialog mechanism at the headquarters of the People's Liberation Army.
Air Force personnel to die by hanging for killing soldier-lover
A 10-man Nigeria Air Force General Court Martial, which tried Air Craftsman Kalu Bernard over the alleged killing of his girl friend and colleague, Solape Oladipupo, has sentenced him to death by hanging. Jealous Bernard, 21, had shot and killed Solape when he allegedly caught her in the arms of another man at the Air Force Base, Makurdi on March 12, 2017.
China urges US, North Korea to ‘hit the brakes’ on threats
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson listens as he is asked a question about North Korea after he spoke on the release of the 2016 annual report on International Religious Freedom, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017, at the State Department in ... Researchers at one of the nation's top federal laboratories have used neutron beams and high-energy X-rays to produce the highest resolution scan ever done of the inner workings of a fossilized tyrannosaur skull. Researchers at one of the nation's top federal laboratories have used neutron beams and high-energy X-rays to produce the highest resolution scan ever done of the inner workings of a fossilized tyrannosaur skull.