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An attack submarine that is sponsored by first lady Michelle Obama and will be named for her home state has been delivered to the U.S. Navy. Submarine builder General Dynamics Electric Boat, based in Groton, Connecticut, delivered the submarine that will become the USS Illinois to the Navy on Saturday after nearly five and a half years of construction.
In a year with the first female presidential nominee by a major political party, and with 27 female Olympic gold medalists outnumbering their male counterparts, American women have a lot to celebrate in their movement for equality. But they also still face many challenges, and on Women's Equality Day, U.S. Rep. Niki Tsongas set up a roundtable discussion to talk about these challenges and their possible solutions.
In this Aug. 25, 2016, photo provided by the U.S. Navy, a pair of stranded mariners signal for help as a U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon aircraft crew from Patrol Squadron 8 flies over in support of a Coast Guard search and rescue mission on an uninhabited island in Micronesia, Hawaii. The U.S. Coast Guard says the two stranded mariners were rescued Friday after crews saw their "SOS" in the sand.
Editor's Note: This is the third of a three-part series of stories about Stan Kindler. Kindler, a PFC in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II was with the 2nd Marine Division, 8th Regiment, 2nd Service Battalion, Ordnance Company.
The U.S. Marine Corps' new commander for the Pacific said Friday he aims to advance his predecessor's work helping allies and partners develop their skills storming beaches and moving forces ashore. Lt. Gen.
The U.S. Marine Corps' new commander for the Pacific says he aims to carry on his predecessor's momentum on helping allies and partners develop their amphibious skills. Toolan told reporters after the ceremony that helping allies Japan, Australia and South Korea develop their amphibious operations was one of his top accomplishments as Marine Forces Pacific commander.
Yes, we're indefatigable in search of the truth. Here we have Rep. Steven Palazzo, Secretary of the Air Force Michael Donley, and Sen. Roger Wicker, you guessed it, applauding Master Sgt.
Some defense analysts have warned the U.S. Navy is not capable of dealing with all the ocean-borne threats in our modern world. This week, North Korea provided a reminder of how the naval power situation is changing.
Sector North Carolina watchstanders were notified that a diver from the vessel Atlantis reportedly experienced equipment failure and did not resurface, at approximately Watchstanders from Sector North Carolina dispatched a 47-foot Motor Life Boat crew from Coast Guard Station Oak Island, a 45-foot Response Boat-Medium from Station Wrightsville Beach and an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew from Air Station Elizabeth City to search for the man. The 110-foot Coast Guard Cutter Cushing and 87-foot Coast Guard Cutter Ibis are also on the way to assist in the search.
A pair of dangerously close encounters between the Iranian and U.S. navies in the Persian Gulf this week have raised fresh questions about Tehran 's intentions, a year after Obama administration officials hoped the much-touted nuclear deal would moderate the behavior of the Islamic republic and its military.
The U.S. Marine Corps officially acknowledged this week that they had previously mistaken the identity of two people raising the first flag at Iwo Jima during World War II. According to the statement, two men long thought to have participated in the iconic Feb. 23, 1945, flag-raising were in fact nearby but did not actually help hoist the flag.
Iran's naval forces will warn or confront any foreign ship entering the country's territorial waters, the Iranian defense minister said Thursday, remarks that came after an incident this week involving a U.S. warship. The semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted Gen.
New Delhi, Aug 24 : The leaked data on the Scorpene submarine may threaten its stealth element, former Indian Navy chief, Admiral Arun Prakash said on Wednesday, adding it has to be first established how relevant the leaked information is. Asked about the threat posed by the leak, he said: "It's difficult to say how big a threat it is...we have to ascertain that this is related to our submarines."
The UK Ministry of Defense announced on Tuesday that it would sell the HMS Illustrious for scrap to a Turkish company called LEYAL Ship Recycling Ltd. for about $2.5 million, after trying and failing to repurpose the ship as a museum. "We have done all we can for over two years to find a home for the former HMS Illustrious in the UK, and regrettably all options have now been exhausted," UK Minister for Defence Procurement Harriett Baldwin said in a statement.
When the Nigerian air force claimed Tuesday that it had "fatally wounded" the leader of the Boko Haram terrorist group, the report was met with skepticism and little fanfare. Partly, that's because Nigeria's military has claimed to have killed Abubakar Shekau before - only to have the mastermind behind the kidnapping of nearly 300 schoolgirls in 2014 resurface in one of his signature videos.
The U.S. Navy has rejected calls for blood testing and monitoring of people who worked on local military bases as well as community members outside the bases. The Navy did pay for bottled water when public and private wells were shut down for PFOA and PFOS contamination levels above what the EPA considers safe over a person's lifetime.
U.S. Marine Corps veteran Ed "Zimmo" Zimmerman, right, of Bear Creek Township, Pa., returns from a one-week trip to Vietnam to guide a search team to where he last saw two fallen soldiers in 1968, and is welcomed back to Pennsylvania by friends and family including a fellow U.S. Marine Corps veteran who served in Vietnam, Don Wilmot of Sterling, Pa., second from left, on Thursday, Aug. 18, 2016, at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport in Avoca, Pa. Members of a U.S. government Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command search team will spend up to 30 days excavating the site where U.S. Marine Corps veteran Ed "Zimmo" Zimmerman, in 1968, last saw U.S. Marine Corps Pfc.