US, PHL navies kick off bilateral maritime training

The United States Navy and Philippine Navy kicked off the week-long Maritime Training Activity Sama Sama at Naval Station Ernesto Ogbinar in San Fernando City, La Union on July 9, the US Navy said. In the at-sea phase to be held in West Philippine Sea, US Navy expeditionary fast transport USNS Millinocket , diving and salvage ship USNS Salvor and a P-8 Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft will operate with Philippine Navy frigate BRP Ramon Alcaraz and landing dock ship BRP Tarlac .

U.S. Army Culture as an offset

Innovation in the Army needs to come from the top down and the ground up, and Soldiers at all levels need freedom, time and equipment to make it happen. Maintaining overmatch against any and all potential adversaries-known as an offset strategy-places a premium on new, potentially disruptive technologies.

US Coast Guard, JDF crew intercept vessel with US$2-m worth of marijuana in C’bean Sea

The United States Coast Guard says crew members aboard the Coast Guard Cutter Thetis have offloaded 2,116 pounds of marijuana in Key West, Florida after returning home from an 88-day patrol in the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. On Friday, the Coast Guard along with a Jamaica Defence Force crew intercepted a suspected drug smuggling vessel in the Caribbean Sea.

Washington key testing ground for Navy’s underwater drones

For the past 100 years, Keyport has been home to one of Navy's primary efforts to research, develop and test torpedoes, which earned the small, waterfront community the moniker of "Torpedo Town, U.S.A." Now, Keyport's Naval Undersea Warfare Center is becoming the modern testing ground for a new type of technology that silently operates in the depths - unmanned undersea vehicles, which are known as UUVs. Those unmanned undersea vehicles are essentially "pre-programmed, small submarines," said Cmdr.

Veterans embrace the healing power of horses

To continue reading this premium story, you need to become a member. Click below to take advantage of an exclusive offer for new members: Randy Williams of Pawcatuck, a Navy veteran participating in the spring session of Veterans Equine Therapeutic Services program, works with therapy horse Maggie, a Quarter horse during the fourth day of the spring session of the Veterans Veterans Equine Therapeutic Services program at the Horses Healing Humans facility on Saturday, May 12, 2018, in Stonington.

Ap Fact Check: Trump’s half-truths on court case, economy

President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally at the Four Seasons Arena at Montana ExpoPark, Thursday, July 5, 2018, in Great Falls, Mont. President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a rally at the Four Seasons Arena at Montana ExpoPark, Thursday, July 5, 2018, in Great Falls, Mont.

Pentagon Needs to Stop Doing Business With Foreign Fraudsters

Its final results won't be known until later this year, but the first-ever agency-wide audit of the Department of Defense already has raised some eyebrows. It previously had revealed through reports from the Office of the Inspector General that the Army had posted $6.5 trillion in accounting discrepancies in 2015, and from the Defense Logistics Agency the procurement arm of the U.S. military that it can't account for $800 million in spending on construction projects.

Judge warns against ‘piecemeal’ court rulings on immigration

To continue reading this premium story, you need to become a member. Click below to take advantage of an exclusive offer for new members: President Donald Trump boards Air Force One, Thursday, July 5, 2018, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., en route to a rally in Great Falls, Mont.

Pilot warns of ‘sustained FETO threat’ in Turkish military

A Turkish military pilot, who is cooperating with prosecutors after being dismissed from the service over his links to suspected plotters of the July 2016 coup attempt, has warned about the "sustained threat" posed by "disguised members of [the Fethullahist Terrorist Organization] FETA- ." The Turkish authorities refer to the movement of U.S.-based leader Fetullah GA1 4len as FETA- , which is widely believed to have orchestrated the defeated coup on July 15, 2016, which left 250 people killed and nearly 2,200 injured.

Trump claims Maxine Waters’ IQ in ‘mid-60s,’ slams…

E.P.A. Aide Questioned Deleting Sensitive Meeting Details. Then She Was Fired. - WASHINGTON - Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency and the subject of numerous investigations into claims that he used agency resources for personal benefit How Scott Pruitt's Disloyalty to His Own Staff Brought Him Down in the End Minutes before President Donald Trump announced the resignation of Scott Pruitt, his top environmental regulator, one of his former aides accused him of firing another for questioning a potentially illegal purge of official agency records.

Airborne 07.06.18: SureFly @OSH18, D.B. Cooper ID’ed?, USAF Cancels Eval

Workhorse Group's SureFly Multi-Copter is scheduled to fly on Tuesday, July 24 during the Innovations Day session at the EAA AirVenture fly-in at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The manned flight will take place with an all-electric SureFly test vehicle from 3:03 to 3:08 p.m. Central Time, during the event's daily airshow.