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Under Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly made the announcement on Monday, saying the ship will be a littoral combat ship meant for coastline missions. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports Modly made the announcement at the USS Cod Submarine Memorial in Cleveland.
All of the Royal Navy's next-generation Type 26 frigates will be homed in Devonport, the Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced. The eight Type 26 frigates will start being delivered to the Royal Navy from the mid-2020s heralding yet another new era in the role of a base, which has played a central role in the defence of the UK for hundreds of years - from the Napoleonic wars to the Falklands Conflict.
The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs named U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Kim Graff of Milton as the 2018 Wisconsin Woman Veteran of the Year. The Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs named U.S. Marine Corps Veteran Kim Graff of Milton as the 2018 Wisconsin Woman Veteran of the Year.
One year after wildfires devastated Northern California's wine country and destroyed thousands of homes, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' first experience cleaning up after a wildfire has turned into an expensive bureaucratic mess. The state's top emergency official suspects fraud played a role.
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has announced plans to redevelop the old Navy yard in Boston that's home to the USS Constitution, the world's oldest commissioned warship still afloat. Zinke and Navy Secretary Richard Spencer visited the Charlestown Navy Yard on Friday to tout the approval of $3 million in federal money for the effort.
Over the past two decades unmanned aerial drones have transformed how the U.S. Air Force wages war, allowing it to surveil hostile territory and neutralize enemy targets without putting the lives of pilots at risk. Next, the Navy is hoping it can employ its own unmanned vehicles to clear mines, scout unfamiliar territory or wage anti-submarine warfare.
Jury selection began in the homicide trial of a man accused of shooting his wife and tossing her into Lake Erie and then reporting she'd accidentally fallen overboard from his commercial fishing boat. The prosecution and defense began selecting jurors Monday from a pool of 150 people for the trial of 49-year-old Christopher Leclair, the Erie Times-News reported .
Don Valenzuela, of San Francisco, raises a bottle of beer as the U.S. Navy Blue Angels perform during the San Francisco Fleet Week on Saturday. []; _taboola.push ; _taboola.push ; []; _taboola.push ; _taboola.push ; Hundreds of people braved the snaking lines Saturday at Pier 35 on the Embarcadero for the chance to explore combat ships bobbing pier-side as part of San Francisco's annual Fleet Week, before the air show overhead diverted attention skyward and obliterated most normal-volume conversations.
Twitter/Woody Williams Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams, a World War II Medal of Honor Recipient, will be a special guest at the grand opening and dedication ceremony of the City of Logan's Shawnee Island project on Monday, Oct. 22. Twitter/Woody Williams Hershel Woodrow "Woody" Williams, a World War II Medal of Honor Recipient, will be a special ... (more)
Naval historian Chuck Veit will give an illustrated lecture on the Alligator, the Navy's first submarine, on Thursday, Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Titusville. The story of the Alligator is told against the history of underwater vessels in the first half of the 19th century.
The engine of the asphalt tanker Feng Huang Ao was ablaze early Friday morning some 60 miles southeast of Nantucket, according to the Coast Guard. The tanker Star Bright came to the aid of the vessel while it was burning.
The Vallejo City Unified School District came "this close" to losing its 45-year-old Navy Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program for lack of interest, but signed up the required number of students just under the wire. Until about two weeks ago, there were some 80 students enrolled in the Jesse Bethel High School program, which needs at least 100, officials said.
Federal authorities arrested a Utah man Wednesday after suspicious envelopes were sent to President Trump and top military leaders, some of which contained the natural ingredients used to make the deadly poison ricin. A person holds seeds of the castor oil plant containing the deadly poison ricin, on June 14, 2018 in Berlin.
Hurricane Florence was named one of the worst storms ever by Havelock officials, and recovery continues -- including for Cherry Point. Of the nearly 6,000 houses leased by American Marine Corps Communities in N.C., 1,538 are located on Cherry Point.
The Kitsap Sun reports that the four are all third-class petty officers assigned to submarine commands. Authorities say they engaged in sexual acts in September 2017 in their barracks with a girl who was older than 12 but less than 16 and that they took photos and video.
The Kitsap Sun reports that the four are all third-class petty officers assigned to submarine commands. Authorities say they engaged in sexual acts in September 2017 in their barracks with a girl who was older than 12 but less than 16 and that they took photos and video.
President Trump has long wielded the word "Nafta" like an epithet, deriding the North American Free Trade Agreement as the worst trade deal in history. So when he renamed it the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement - or U.S.M.C.A. - this week, he may have short-circuited attempts to criticize the new deal.