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A new report from the RAND Corp. analyzed survey data from thousands of active-duty military members and found Marines are more likely to be heavy drinkers, use tobacco and engage in riskier sexual behavior than the sailors, soldiers and airmen of the other branches. RAND found that incidents of binge drinking and hazardous drinking among Marines were almost double what they were in the Air Force.
The Navy is clamping down on who can become a surface warfare officer - a move aimed at boosting focus on bridge watch-standing opportunities for future warship commanders. Effective immediately, sailors pursuing SWO certification must be commissioned line officers qualified to command warfighting units or be making a lateral transfer into the field, according to a Navy instruction issued July 23. The change - which restricts limited-duty officers, chief warrant officers and senior enlisted sailors from becoming SWOs - comes after ineffective watch-standing was found to be partly to blame for separate collisions last year that killed 17 sailors on the destroyers USS Fitzgerald and USS John S. McCain.
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From 2009 to 2016, the Defense Department recruited more than 10,000 non-citizens into the armed forces. Now some say they're being discharged without explanation.
The New York Times reports the 62-year-old known as Marge has been living for free in the 222-year-old Montauk Lighthouse for 31 years - since April 1987 - when the U.S. Coast Guard moved out of the property on the island's eastern end and turned it over to the Montauk Historical Society. She lived at the lighthouse for free but the caretaker's job came with no pay, so she worked during the day at the local post office for 30 years.
Editor's note: The past is prologue. The stories we tell about ourselves and our forebears inform the sort of country we think we are and help determine public policy.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz's office would like to know why work that should be going to Red River Army Depot is going elsewhere. "Language has been put into the National Defense Authorization Act for FY19 to investigate this and figure out why missions are going other places than where they are supposed to," a Cruz spokesman said.
The drinking water aboard a U.S. Navy ship at a Virginia shipyard is no longer testing positive for E. coli or coliform bacteria. The Virginian-Pilot reports a routine water test at a Portsmouth shipyard Thursday found the contaminants on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Truck falls off Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in crash A crash on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel closed all southbound traffic for a time Friday evening, officials said. Check out this story on eveningsun.com: A freight truck went over a Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel safety wall and into the water on Friday, officials confirmed, stopping all southbound traffic for a time.
Launched from the USS John Paul Jones, a Standard Missile-6 demonstrated its ability to intercept ballistic missiles in their final seconds of flight during live fire tests July 28-Aug. 1, 2015. President Trump's dream of a "Space Force" to protect American satellites either had a setback or made "significant progress" this week, depending on your perspective.
Mother-of-two rescued by US Coast Guard from Oregon cliff after going missing for four days last year is charged with 96 felony counts Heather Mounce, 38, is facing 62 counts of identity theft, 24 counts of criminal mistreatment and 10 counts of theft Mounce is also suspected of stealing the identity of a man in his 90s who was in her care, as well as $5,000 Authorities said at the time Mounce drove to the coast on her own free will, but did not reveal why An Oregon woman who went missing for nearly four days last summer, only to be rescued by the US Coast Guard from a remote cliff, has now been charged with nearly 100 felony counts.
People are seen on a vehicle on Thursday as they travel during the flood after the Xe Pian-Xe Namnoy hydropower dam collapsed in Attapeu province. Relief supplies from His Majesty the King and the government have arrived in southern Laos as more are on the way to help Laotians affected by a dam collapse.
Justin Smith was one of the officers commissioned as a Marine Corps officer at Tuskegee University's 2018 Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps Spring Commissioning. Gen Brown will retire in June 2018 as Vice Commander, Air Education, and Training Command, which trains more than 293,000 Airmen per year and 62,000 active-duty, Reserve, Guard, civilian and contractor personnel.
In a nearly seven-hour emotionally charged court martial hearing at the Marine Corps base, Pfc. Raymond W. Begay was convicted, Wednesday of involuntary manslaughter in the fatal stabbing of a fellow Marine at the School of Infantry.
Last week, in Ridgewood, New Jersey, a 92-year-old unsung American patriot lost his battle with congestive heart failure. He had been surrounded by his wife and children and their spouses and their children.
Former service members of the U.S. Coast Guard have filed a lawsuit claiming they were wrongfully forced to retire. The Kodiak Daily Mirror reports the lawsuit filed in federal court last month claims about 400 service members were made to retire in violation of federal law from 2012-14.
FedEx Express will begin operating daily cargo flights out of San Bernardino International Airport in October, under terms of a new 10-year agreement. The news comes less than a month after the express transportation giant extended its lease at Ontario International Airport another three decades and pledged to make $100 million in improvements there.
A ceremony at a North Carolina military base has highlighted completion of the next phase of a memorial honoring black Marines. WITN-TV in Greenville reports the ceremony at Camp Lejeune Wednesday also marked the opening of the Montford Point Marines' 53rd national convention in Jacksonville.