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The stern of the El Faro is shown on the ocean floor taken from an underwater video camera November 1, 2015. U.S. Coast Guard investigators are resuming their probe of the deadly sinking of a cargo ship during a hurricane last fall, with two weeks of hearings to examine ship operations, weather forecasts and regulatory oversight getting underway.
Two Chinese fighter jets carried out an "unsafe" intercept of a U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea , the Pentagon said on Wednesday, drawing a rebuke from Beijing, which demanded that Washington end surveillance near China. The incident, likely to increase tension in and around the contested waterway, took place in international airspace on Tuesday as the U.S. maritime patrol aircraft carried out "a routine U.S. patrol," a Pentagon statement said.
Two Chinese fighter jets intercepted a US Navy aircraft that was flying in a "routine patrol" over the South China Sea on Wednesday, a US Defense Department spokesman said in a written statement. China has asserted territorial claims over the South China Sea, which has large oil and natural-gas deposits and has also been claimed by Washington has not recognized China's claims to the waters, and has accused Beijing, which is allegedly building islands there , of "militarizing" the area.
U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the former prisoner of war who's accused of endangering comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan, is asking President Barack Obama to pardon him before leaving office.
For the first time in history, the United States on Monday established an official, permanent military base in Israel: an air defense base in the heart of the Negev desert. Dozens of US Air Force soldiers will call home the new base, located inside the Israeli Air Force's Mashabim Air Base, west of the towns of Dimona and Yerucham.
The B-36 was designed toward the end of World War II as a strategic bomber with intercontinental range. The airplane made its maiden flight in August 1946, and Strategic Air Command received its first operational B-36 in 1948.
A former Navy petty officer, who is imprisoned for illegally taking pictures on a nuclear attack submarine, is seeking a presidential pardon and clemency. On Monday, Jeffrey Addicott, a former Army attorney and director of the Center for Terrorism Law at St Mary's Law School in Texas, submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice petitions for a presidential pardon and for clemency to get Kristian Saucier out of jail.
ORG XMIT: PERSPECTIVExxB.JPG METRO Press-Enterprise reporter Michael Coronado, left, receives gas mask training with other journalists in Kuwait before embedding with Marines from the 7th ESB. ORG XMIT: WARxxF.JPG METRO U.S. Marines attached to Engineer Support Battalion of the First Force Service Support Group in Kuwait pratice first aid techniques at Camp Betio to be applied in the battle field.
Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles get in formation behind a KC-135 Stratotanker after refueling over Ohio, June 15, 2018. The Strike Eagles are with the 4th Fighter Wing and the Stratotanker is with the 121st Air Refueling Wing.
Politics doesn't play much of a role pier-side. While the USS George Washington's contested arrival meant many things to different people, hundreds waited in the hot sun Thursday with a single thing on their minds - reunion.
Only one person in Europe has been punished for hiring a prostitute since a change was instituted a year ago that made the practice a specific offense for all Department of Defense personnel. The offender was an Air Force staff sergeant assigned to the 725th Air Mobility Squadron at Moron Air Base, Spain.