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The Air Force says McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita likely will receive its first KC-46 air refueling tanker by October. Air Force official Will Roper said Friday flight testing to bring the tanker has been finished.
USS Gerald R. Ford pulls alongside USNS William Mclean during an underway replenishment evolution. Ford is currently underway conducting test and evaluation operations.
In this Saturday, April 8, 2017 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, the USS Gerald R. Ford embarks on the first of its sea trials to test various state-of-the-art systems on its own power for the first time, from Newport News, Va. Naval Sea Systems Command spokesman William Couch said in a statement that the USS Gerald R. Ford arrived Sunday, July 15, 2018, at Newport News Shipbuilding.
The body of a woman who fell out of a racing sailboat during a practice on the Corsica River between Queen Anne's and Kent counties on Friday night was found nearby Sunday morning by a good Samaritan while crews searched the area, according to Maryland Natural Resources Police. Stephanie Meredith, 35, of Easton was one of 17 people aboard the log canoe when it capsized on a sharp turn before dark Friday night, said Candy Thomson, a Natural Resources Police spokeswoman.
Marine Raider Memorial March participants do a set of pushups around the monument honoring 15 Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman who died in a 2017 plane crash near Itta Bena, Miss., Saturday, July 14, 2018. The group of 30 former comrades and widows of members of Marine 2nd Raider Battalion, will have teams that will be on the road around the clock through July 27, relaying rucksacks of dirt and sand from the crash site and memorial site over 900 miles to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
Mississippi and U.S. Marine Corps officials are helping dedicate a monument to a plane crash that killed 15 Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman last year. The military transport plane, flown by a New York-based Marine Reserve unit, was carrying special forces Marines from North Carolina to California for training when it crashed July 10, 2017.
The Marines were under heavy enemy fire on June 8, 1968 in Vietnam when Cpl. Stephen Austin broke away from his squad and charged toward a machine gunner concealed in a bunker.
The United States Coast Guard medevaced an 80-year-old passenger from a cruise ship 150 miles off the Wilmington coast Thursday. According to Coast Guard officials, their 5th district command center was contacted by the crew of the cruise ship, Adventure of the Seas, requesting assistance after the female passenger reportedly had a stroke and need medical care.
Addressing the US president in front of an audience of business leaders at Winston Churchill's birthplace, Mrs May insisted that Brexit provides an opportunity for an "unprecedented" agreement to boost jobs and growth. Noting that more than one million Americans already work for British-owned firms, she told Mr Trump: "As we prepare to leave the European Union, we have an unprecedented opportunity to do more.
There are few things more thrilling than seeing an old car on the road and wondering, "Wow! Whatever happened to that one?" In fact, it's the thrill of finding such a car, which we thought had been dead and buried, out on the street again that is the main factor for our excitement. We know all cars, and their brands, have a lifespan.
Not just one, not just two, but three generations of McCains are now honored on a U.S. Navy ship in the Pacific. The secretary of the Navy added U.S. Sen. John McCain's name Thursday to a warship that had already been named for the Arizona lawmaker's father and grandfather, both former Navy admirals.
In this frame grab from a Facebook Live event Tuesday, July 10, 2018, by the U.S. Navy, Yeoman First Class LaToya Jones, center, speaks as Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson, left of center, and Chief of Naval Personnel Adm.
Emergency responders assist a passenger in Ketchikan, Alaska, Tuesday, July 10, 2018, after the crash of a Taquan Air float plane on Prince of Wales Island's Mt. Jumbo.
Tuesday at Tham Luang in Thailand, the last of the 13 survivors who had spent 18 days trapped in a cave emerged to safety. A rescue team had spent the past three days getting the boys out after five days of desperate planning and calculations since their discovery.
All the people aboard a plane that... . Emergency responders assist a passenger injured in a crash of a Taquan Air plane in mountainous terrain on Prince of Wales Island Tuesday, July 10, 2018, in Ketchikan, Alaska.
In this July 10, 2018 photo, Coast Guard Air Station Sitka MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crews rescue people after a float plane crashed southwest of Ketchikan, Alaska, on Prince of Wales Island. All the people aboard a plane that crashed Tuesday have been rescued in mountainous terrain, officials said.
Orolia's McMurdo SmartFind G8 AIS Emergency Position-Indicating Radio Beacon has been approved by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission and Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada . The world's first EPIRB to contain both the international 406 MHz alert frequency and the localized rescue power of the Automatic Identification System , the McMurdo SmartFind G8 AIS is now ready to order for leisure and commercial maritime use across the U.S. and Canada, following the earlier approval of the SmartFind G8 product family portfolio in Europe.
Inpex said it expects to ship first cargo from its Ichthys liquefied natural gas project in Australia by the end of September after safety issues have been resolved, maintaining an earlier schedule. The Inpex-operated Ichthys LNG project carried out an inspection mainly on electrical equipment during the process of final safety verifications in cooperation with Australian regulators , in preparation for the start-up of production.
Mary Jennings "MJ" Hegar, a 42-year-old mother and Republican turned " independent Democrat " running for Congress in Texas, is an Air Force veteran and retired Air National Guard helicopter pilot who didn't let an abusive biological father, knee injuries, and sexual bias, harassment and assault stop her from doing three tours in Afghanistan that climaxed with a rescue mission gone awry in which she strapped herself to the skids of a chopper and fired at the Taliban. Her service earned her a Purple Heart.
On July 11, 1804, Vice President Aaron Burr mortally wounded former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton during a pistol duel in Weehawken, N.J. In 1798, the U.S. Marine Corps was formally re-established by a congressional act that also created the U.S. Marine Band. In 1937, American composer and pianist George Gershwin died at a Los Angeles hospital of a brain tumor; he was 38. In 1952, the Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Dwight D. Eisenhower for president and Richard M. Nixon for vice president.