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Monmouth County has received a $206,000 federal grant from the Department of Defense to prepare a Joint Land Use Study for Naval Weapons Station Earle. A cooperative land use planning effort between affected local government entities and the military installation, the project looks to create compatible development measures to keep the base operational, while also looking out for the surrounding public's health, safety, and welfare.
Illustrative photo of an IAF F-15 fighter jet flying over Israel during the 'Blue Flag' exercise at Ovda Airfield near Eilat on October 21, 2015. Syrian state television said the Syrian army shot down an Israeli fighter jet and drone Tuesday morning, a claim swiftly denied by the IDF.
The U.S. Navy has given its first look inside the stealthy and futuristic Zumwalt destroyer during the ship's first port stop at Naval Station Newport in Rhode Island. The 610-foot-long warship with an angular shape cost more than $4.4 billion.
Four days after North Korea's fifth and possibly most powerful nuclear weapons test, the US Air Force responded with a show of force on Tuesday, flying two powerful B-1 bombers over South Korea. North Korea claimed Friday's test showed it had a nuclear warhead that could be mounted on ballistic missiles, a possibility that increases fears for US allies in the region and also poses a threat to US bases in South Korea, Japan and Guam.
Jeff Sprekelmeyer, carrying an American and U.S. Marine Corps flag joins other participants, including area first responders, during the Sons of the Flag's second annual Climb for a Calling stair climb Sunday at Burnett Plaza in Fort Worth. Honor Guard members from several departments including Grapevine, North Richland Hills and Flower Mound fire departments open the ceremony for the Sons of the Flag's second annual Climb for a Calling stair climb at Burnett Park in Fort Worth, Texas, Sunday, Sept.
Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in this still image from video taken by a P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft provided by the United States Navy May 21,... China and Russia will hold eight days of naval drills in the South China Sea off southern China's Guangdong province starting from Monday, China's navy said. The exercises come at a time of heightened tension in the contested waters after an arbitration court in The Hague ruled in July that China did not have historic rights to the South China Sea and criticized its environmental destruction there.
U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat, left; his Republican challenger Darryl Glenn; and Lily Tang Williams, a Libertarian, debate Saturday at the Club 20 Fall Conference at Two Rivers Convention Center in Grand Junction. About 500 people attended the event.
The United States and Russia, two former Cold War foes that have brokered a ceasefire deal for Syria, rely mostly on air raids in their separate military campaigns in the war-wracked country. Here are key points about how these two powers are trying to fulfill their military objectives in Syria, where a bloody civil war has raged since 2011.
Chelsea Manning began a hunger strike Friday at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where she is serving a 35-year sentence for the leaking of hundreds of thousands of classified documents. Manning is seeking written assurances from the Army that she will receive the medical treatments for her gender dysphoria beyond the hormone treatment she began in early 2015.
Donald Trump's recent gains in some polls in the Middle West and Florida may prove to be a transient phenomenon if the Republican nominee's pro-Russian, anti-NATO stance is hammered home to the regions' large communities of Eastern and Northern European heritage. The ethnic vote in several battleground states could be decisive in a close election.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov look toward one another during a press conference following their meeting in Geneva where they discussed the crisis in Syria on September 9, 2016. AFP / FABRICE COFFRINI Geneva: The United States and Russia reached a deal on a new Syrian ceasefire Friday, which, if it holds, could see the first joint military effort by the two powers against Islamic jihadists.
Retired U.S. Navy Senior Chief Joe Pelly, who survived al-Qaida's 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole warship, talks to reporters at Camp Justice on Friday, Sept. 9, 2016 after resumption of case hearings at the U.S. Navy base at GuantA namo Bay, Cuba.
The last neighborhood the Coast Guard built on the island was Aviation Hill between the late 1990s and 2003, said U.S. Coast Guard Cmdr. Brian Chambers, who heads the personnel department.
The US Coast Guard on Thursday suspended its search for a woman who fell overboard from a Carnival cruise ship the day before, according to a news release. While witnesses said they saw her fall off the 11th deck of the Carnival Ecstasy at 2:30 a.m., the cruise ship company released a statement saying she was "witnessed jumping overboard."
On September 7, at the Union League in Philadelphia, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump gave a major policy speech on defense matters. In it, he proposed force levels for the military services, citing recommendations made in The Heritage Foundation's "2016 Index of U.S. Military Strength .
An Air Force veteran who asked Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton a question during NBC's Wednesday presidential forum says she was disappointed by Clinton's response, saying it avoided answering her question. "Secretary Clinton, to your point, you have had an extensive record with military intervention," said Pam Campos , an undecided Democratic voter.
U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Wednesday laid out his hawkish defense plan which would allow the spending of billions of extra U.S. dollars to expand every branch of the military, pledging an end to mandatory budget caps. "As soon as I take office, I will ask Congress to fully eliminate the defense sequester and will submit a new budget to rebuild our military," Trump said at a rally in Philadelphia.
Authorities searched in the Bahamas for a U.S. citizen who went overboard from a cruise ship before dawn Wednesday. The U.S. Coast Guard said the 32-year-old woman reportedly fell from the 11th deck of the Carnival Ecstasy as the ship passed near the island of Grand Bahama.