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The U.S. Coast Guard will offload more than 47,000 pounds of cocaine worth over $721 million Thursday at 9:30 a.m., which was seized in 23 separate interdictions in the eastern Pacific Ocean by U.S. and Canadian forces operating in international waters off the coast of Central and South America. Senior U.S. and Canadian officials will be at the offload to discuss new tactics used by transnational organized crime groups and to highlight international cooperation in combating the threat posed by these dangerous groups.
In a move likely to irritate China, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is likely to visit Vietnam in March for the first time since the war, U.S. and Vietnamese officials said Thursday. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his counterpart discussed a plan for a carrier visit to Danang in March, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt.
In a move likely to irritate China, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier is likely to visit Vietnam in March for the first time since the war, U.S. and Vietnamese officials said Thursday. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and his counterpart discussed a plan for a carrier visit to Danang in March, Pentagon spokesman Navy Capt.
The acquisition advances Vectrus' strategy to be a leader in the converging physical and digital infrastructure market; enhances the company's logistics, IT and technical solutions capabilities, while expanding the Vectrus client base. , and founded in 1986, SENTEL has over 600 employees operating in three core business areas: Engineering and Advanced Solutions, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, and Intelligence Mission Support.
Swiss Federal President Alain Berset, right, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, shake hands prior to a meeting one day before the start of the 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, WEF, in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 22, 2018.
A Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov SSV-175, is seen docked at a Havana port February 27, 2014. A Russian spy ship quietly slipped into Havana Bay earlier this week and was docked at a cruise ship terminal on Thursday, its crew casually taking in the view of the old colonial section of the Cuban capital as passers-by gawked.
U.S air force personnel stand by an U.S. A-10 aircraft, one of a squadron that arrived at the Kandahar air base The US is sending a squadron of 12 A-10 Warthogs back to Afghanistan for the first time since 2012. US Air Force Maj.
The U.K. Royal Navy's fourth Astute class submarine, Audacious, has completed its first ever dive, marking a milestone on the path toward full sea trials later in 2018. The trim and basin dive took place over two days in early January in Devonshire Dock, at builder BAE Systems's site in Barrow-in-Furness.
The U.S. Coast Guard is warning people in southeastern Michigan and northwestern Ohio to avoid ice-covered waters as mild weather makes them increasingly unstable. Personnel with the Guard's Detroit Sector have rescued 18 people who have fallen through ice in the past week.
The Navy's oldest warship has completed a 19-month dry dock period designed to extend its life another 20 years. The USS Blue Ridge, which serves as the flagship of the Yokosuka-based 7th Fleet, returned pier side this week at Yokosuka after an extended dry-dock selected restricted availability maintenance period, a Navy statement said.
Some military families took a breath of cautionary relief Monday when a deal appeared to have been reached in the Senate to end a short government shutdown. "When this filibuster started we thought, 'oh, no, it's happening all over again,'" said Emily Erickson, the wife of an Air Force staff sergeant stationed at Nellis Air Force Base, a sprawling installation outside Las Vegas.
The Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing said that exempt federal technicians and active-duty personnel would continue to carry out essential operations at the base today but that non-exempt technicians would be furloughed.
Vice President Mike Pence is making his fourth visit to Israel, returning to a region he's visited "a million times" in his heart. An evangelical Christian with strong ties to the Holy Land, Pence this time comes packing two key policy decisions in his bags that have long been top priorities for him: designating Jerusalem as Israel's capital and curtailing aid for Palestinians.
Vice President Mike Pence is making his fourth visit to Israel, returning to a region he's visited "a million times" in his heart. An evangelical Christian with strong ties to the Holy Land, Pence this time comes packing two key policy decisions in his bags that have long been top priorities for him: designating Jerusalem as Israel's capital and curtailing aid for Palestinians.
It was July 1st, 1952 when Look magazine carried this story: "Flying Saucers - The Hunt Goes On" with the byline: "Fearful of danger from the skies, the United States Air Force is launching a secret search to discover once-and-for-all what is the mysterious, unbelievable thing Americans keep sighting overhead." At the time, the Air Force confirmed more than 800 sightings of flying saucers with reports from outposts all across the country, including "our vital atomic installation sites."
AmeriCorps VISTA members Kyllie Harris, left, and Alyss Smith weigh food donations. The chief of external affairs for the Corporation for National and Community Service, which oversees AmeriCorps, has resigned following controversial comments as an Internet radio host.
Conor Lamb, the Democrat running to represent this district in Congress, was wrapping up an interview with a reporter last week when Ted Skowvron, a 93-year-old veteran in a World War II cap, walked over to shake his hand. Skowvron informed Lamb that was he was a ball gunner on a B-17 in the European theater.
We launch rockets, we claim Kate Upton as one of our own, and all those bikini billboards on I-95 lead you to the world-famous Ron Jon Surf Shop in Cocoa Beach. Kuma, the 10-year-old black lab, became the first and only "ambassadog" in the nation at the Orlando Melbourne International Airport.