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After the USS Fitzgerald collided with a giant container ship in mid-June, killing seven sailors, Admiral William F. Moran, vice chief of naval operations, said that the US Navy crew's lack of preparedness was partly to blame. Two months later, another destroyer from the same fleet has collided with an oil tanker and 10 of its crew are still missing.
President Donald Trump was expected to announce an increase of a few thousand troops in Afghanistan Monday night, taking the reins of a conflict where today 8,500 personnel are mostly focused on buttressing their Afghan counterparts in the face of Taliban and Islamic State gains. The Defense Department, the State Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development and other agencies have spent $714 billion of war and reconstruction funding since the invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001 to bolster education programs, improve infrastructure and increase the competency of Afghan security forces.
FILE PHOTO: The guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain approaches the aircraft carrier USS George Washington for a fueling at sea in this December 5, 2010 handout photo courtesy of the U.S. Navy. U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Cheng S. Yang/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo Amid reports that the destroyer USS John S. McCain lost steering just before collision with an oil tanker, experts have speculated the possibility of hacking as the cause of the incident.
Officials announced Monday that they have suspended the search for five Army soldiers who were in a helicopter crash during offshore training in Hawaii last week. Families of the missing soldiers were notified about the search suspension, said Maj.
The Secret Service said Monday that it has enough money to cover the cost of protecting President Donald Trump and his family through the end of September, but after that the agency will hit a federally mandated cap on salaries and overtime unless Congress intervenes. If lawmakers don't lift the cap, about a third of the agency's agents would be working overtime without being paid, agency officials said.
An international air-sea rescue has been launched in waters off Singapore for 10 missing U.S. sailors after a collision between the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain and an oil tanker. As The Two-Way has reported , the collision with the Liberian-flagged oil and chemical tanker Alnic MC occurred at 6:24 a.m. Japan time as the destroyer - named after Arizona Sen. John McCain's father and grandfather, who were both admirals - was on a routine visit to the port of Singapore.
Ten sailors are missing after an American warship collided with an oil tanker east of Singapore in the second accident involving US Navy destroyers in little more than two months. The guided-missile destroyer USS John S McCain collided with the merchant vessel Alnic MC while heading to Singapore for a routine port call, the Navy said in a statement.
Ten US sailors were missing and five injured Monday after their destroyer collided with a tanker east of Singapore, in the second accident involving an American warship in two months. The guided-missile destroyer USS John S McCain collided with the merchant vessel Alnic MC near the Straits of Malacca in the early hours, the US Navy said.
This image released by the US Navy shows the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain in the Pacific Ocean. Pic/AFP Guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain collided with a merchant vessel near here on Monday leaving 10 Navy sailors missing and five injured, a statement said.
The North Carolina Air National Guard has conducted its last flight including all eight of its C-130 Hercules aircraft. The Guard's 145th Airlift Wing is preparing to trade in the aging C-130 fleet for larger C-17 Globemaster II aircraft.
Ten U.S. Navy sailors were missing and five others were injured after the USS John S. McCain guided missile destroyer and an oil tanker three times its size collided near Singapore early today.
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In this Friday, Aug. 18, 2017, photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard, an MH-65 helicopter crew from Coast Guard Air Station Barbers Point passes Ka'ena Point in Hawaii. A joint response has been mounted to search for five missing Army aviators from a downed UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter off Oahu.
The United States Navy says the guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain has collided with merchant ship Alnic MC, east of Singapore. This is the ship that the USS McCain collided with: a 600-foot-long oil tanker with a deadweight of 50,000 tons https://t.co/UQKkEFQBCI pic.twitter.com/rEnCH54D9X
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New York [U.S.], August 20 : The wreckage of the Second World War cruiser USS Indianapolis has been found 18,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, seven decades after it was torpedoed by the Imperial Japanese Navy submarine. Paul Allen, who cofounded Microsoft, announced that he and a crew of researchers had finally located wreckage from the USS Indianapolis, which went down on July 30, 1945, in the Philippine Sea 5.5km below.