Category Archives: US Military

Colin Firth Climbs Aboard Submarine Thriller

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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.

By the numbers: Memorial Day and veterans

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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.

Navy: 2 fighter jets crash off NC coast; 4 hospitalized

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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.

Final testing for Lockheed Martin’s F-35 pushed back about six months to 2018

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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.

Feds blame pilot error, lack of oversight in Marine’s death

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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 astronaut Scott Kelly to speak at UT in August Read Story Mark Bergin

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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.

DOD uses undisclosed files to defend sex assault testimony

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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.

Hiroshima trip by Obama stirs differing views across Pacific

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Two very different visions of the hell that is war are seared into the minds of World War II survivors on opposite sides of the Pacific. Michiko Kodama saw a flash in the sky from her elementary school classroom on Aug. 6, 1945, before the ceiling fell and shards of glass from blown-out windows slashed her.