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Three current and former Navy officers were charged in documents unsealed Friday for their roles in a massive bribery and fraud scheme involving a Navy contractor. Assistant Attorney General Leslie R. Caldwell of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Laura E. Duffy of the Southern District of California, Acting Director Dermot O'Reilly of the Department of Defense's Defense Criminal Investigative Service , Director Andrew Traver of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and Director Anita Bales of Defense Contract Audit Agency made the announcement.
Our fight against ISIS is a truly 21st century war --fought partly in ice-cold computer rooms by troops who risk not bullets, but mental stress and tooth decay. One hundred and fifty years ago, in 1866, the town of Waterloo, NY, celebrated the first Memorial Day, remembering the fallen of the Civil War.
As a witness to the removal of fallen U.S. troops from Afghanistan, Army Chaplain Christopher John Antal can't recall a time when that solemn ceremony wasn't conducted without the presence of drones passing along the horizon. They were sleek and quiet, making a gentle humming noise as they flew over the flight lines - where aircraft can be parked and serviced - of the Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan, where he was stationed in 2012.
Lt. Gen. Lawrence D. Nicholson, U.S. Marine Corps Commanding General of III Marine Expeditionary Force, speaks during a press conference at the USMC Camp Foster in Okinawa, Japan after a former Marine was arrested on suspicion of killing a woman on the southern Japanese island.
The U.S. Coast Guard is opening seasonal air facilities in Michigan and Illinois to boost Lake Michigan search and rescue operations during the spring and summer months. Crews from the Detroit area operate Air Facility Muskegon while crews from Traverse City operate Air Facility Waukegan.
On May 27, 1941, the British Royal Navy sank the German battleship Bismarck off France with a loss of some 2,000 lives, three days after the Bismarck sank the HMS Hood with the loss of more than 1,400 lives.
The U.S. Coast Guard has released a video showing Navy pilots being hoisted from the water after a crash off of North Carolina's coast . The Coast Guard reported that the crew of the commercial fishing vessel Pammy recovered all four pilots.
Colin Firth is taking the plunge for a new submarine thriller based on the real-life Kursk disaster in August, 2000. The British actor will join The Danish Girl star Matthias Schoenaerts in the film adaptation of the underwater tragedy, which occurred when a torpedo exploded onboard the K-141 Kursk, the pride of the Russian Navy.
As the country heads into the Memorial Day weekend, there are over 1.3 million U.S soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines on active duty, and more than 150,000 of them are stationed in foreign countries. So far, more than 6,800 U.S. servicemen and women have died during the military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and at least 52,000 more have been wounded.
Two Navy jet fighters crashed off the coast of North Carolina during a training mission Thursday, and their four crew members were airlifted to a hospital with minor injuries after being plucked out of the Atlantic Ocean by a commercial fishing vessel and Coast Guard rescuers, officials said. The F/A-18 Super Hornet jet fighters, based in Virginia Beach, crashed about 10:40 a.m. off the coast of Cape Hatteras, following an "in-flight mishap," said Lt.
Ford's defunct Dearborn Assembly Plant produced more than six million Mustangs for nearly one-half of its 90-year history before production ended on Monday, May 10, 2004. The 80-plus year-old plant designed by Albert Kahn was torn down in 2008.
Crew members prepare a F-16 to escort an Air Force version of the F-35 for a test flight at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth in August 2015. Final testing on Lockheed Martin's F-35 stealth fighter jet has slipped to 2018, about six months later than planned, as the company resolves long-running software problems, according to top program officials.
Federal investigators blame the Marine Corps, the Air Force and the pilot and operator of a privately-owned military jet for the death of a Marine killed last year when the jet crashed into his truck in Arizona. The National Transportation Safety Board report said the pilot of the BAE Systems Hawk jet took off too early, noting that he lifted off while traveling more than 10 mph below normal takeoff speed on March 11, 2015.
Retired U.S. astronaut and University of Tennessee Space Institute graduate Scott Kelly will speak at the school's "Welcome Week Life of Mind" celebration. Kelly's talk is a part of UT's First-Year Studies 100 class, which is a zero-credit pass-fail class that gives students their first taste of college studies.
Memorial day weekend is quickly approaching and many Southwest Floridians will be heading out on the boat. But before it's anchors away, you need to take the proper precautions.
A cloud of dust and smoke billows over Hiroshima after the detonation of the first atomic bomb in this handout photo taken by the U.S. Army on Aug. 6, 1945, and distributed by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. On Aug. 6, 1945, Maj.
The Pentagon is relying on information it won't make public to dispute an Associated Press investigation that found the military misled Congress about sexual assault cases to blunt support for Senate legislation. In a report sent Thursday to a bipartisan group of senators, the Pentagon refers to undisclosed files about several of the cases to challenge AP's findings.
A Salem resident who skipped school to enlist in the U.S. Marine Corps and served during the Korean War will serve his community as this year's Honorary Parade Marshal on Memorial Day. "I honor that day tremendously because of the veterans - they deserve all the praise they can get.