Cadets hold annual military ball –
Cadet Mark Calderon shares a history of the military ball as honored guests Command Master Chief James Parlier and his wife, Nelle, listen.
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Navy researchers produce high-density, high-cetane bio-hydrocarbon…
Researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake have produced three new high-density, high-cetane biofuels from sesquiterpene feedstocks. In an open-access paper published in the RSC journal Sustainable Energy & Fuels , they describe the preparation of the three fuels from sesquiterpene components of cedarwood oil.
Conn. lawmaker lobbies against Electric Boat work moving to Portsmouth Naval Shipyard
The Los Angeles class nuclear attack submarine USS Miami before it was destroyed by an arsonist at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.
Trump’s administration has called China’s island building in the South China Sea illegal
Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in this still image from video taken by a P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft provided by the United States Navy on May 21, 2015. Photo - U.S. Navy/Handout via Reuters/File Chinese dredging vessels are purportedly seen in the waters around Mischief Reef in the disputed Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in this still image from video taken by a P-8A Poseidon surveillance aircraft provided by the United States Navy on May 21, 2015.
This Woman Was The Navy’s ‘Hidden Figure’
Soon after Hidden Figures was acknowledged with three Oscar nominations , a woman named Raye Montague spoke with Good Morning America about her own experience as a "hidden figure" in the Navy, Yahoo reports. "I'm known as the first person to design a ship using the computer," she explained - and she was being humble.
Russian spy ship now off Virginia coast
The Russian spy ship Viktor Leonov is no longer off the coast of Connecticut, but has moved southward to a position northeast of Norfolk, Virginia. The vessel's presence 30 miles south of a U.S. Navy submarine base in New London, Connecticut drew international headlines this week even though U.S. officials were not concerned by the ship's operations, which are in international waters.
Why won’t McCain take on Trump?
Clearly, there can be no love lost between the Arizona senator and the befuddled president. Nor is it likely there is any mutual respect.
McCain in Germany says Trump administration in ‘disarray’
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on Friday told the Munich Security Conference that President Trump's administration is in "disarray" and has "a lot of work to do." McCain has emerged as one of Trump's most vocal critics from his own party.
Trump Says Kellogg – In Play’ for Security Adviser Job Harward Rejected
Robert Harward, a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral, turned down President Donald Trump's offer to become national security adviser, officials said, just days after the resignation of Michael Flynn following revelations he misled administration officials over his contact with Russia.
Conway: Flynn resigned because he’d become – a lightning rod’
National security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned following reports he misled Vice President Mike Pence about contacts with a Russian diplomat, up-ending President Donald Trump's White House team less than a month after his inauguration. In a resignation letter, Flynn said he gave Pence and others "incomplete information" about his calls with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. The vice president, apparently relying on information from Flynn, initially said the national security adviser had not discussed sanctions with the Russian envoy, though Flynn later conceded the issue may have come up.
Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn resigns
President Donald Trump 's embattled national security adviser Michael Flynn resigned following reports he misled Vice President Mike Pence and other officials about his contacts with Russia. His departure upends Trump's senior team after less than a month in office.
India eyes record satellite launch as Asia’s space race heats up
India's space agency will attempt to launch 104 satellites from a single rocket Wednesday -- a record feat that, if successful, will cement the country's space smarts after its successful Mars orbiter mission. "It's going to be a big deal.
Trump says US will deal with North Korea ‘very strongly’
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: President Donald Trump listens as Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks during a joint news conference in the East Room of the White House, Monday, Feb. 13, 2017, in Washington. WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump on Monday vowed to "deal with" North Korea, calling it "a big, big problem" without mentioning the ballistic missile it test-fired over the weekend or any planned American response.  The Pentagon was more pointed in its assessment of the problem.
Trump must Return to ‘Peace Through Strength’
One of the issues that helped elect President Ronald Reagan in 1980 was the fact that President Jimmy Carter, ironically a Navy veteran, had left the United States military gasping for air with planes that couldn't fly and ships that couldn't sail for lack of trained crews or spare parts or both. Reagan would go on the build his 600-ship navy, start development of missile defense, etc.
Pentagon launches effort to solve a baffling WWII mystery
The Pentagon is launching efforts to solve a baffling World War II mystery: whether dozens of U.S. sailors listed as missing from a ship disaster were actually recovered and buried all along as unknowns in a New York cemetery. More than 130 victims of the USS Turner's 1944 explosion and sinking near New York Harbor are still officially missing.
Yemen: In the Shadow of Death
It is my intention to make my entire life a rejection of, a protest against the crimes and injustices of war and political tyranny which threaten to destroy the whole human race and the world ... If I say no to all these secular forces, I also say yes to all that is good in the world and in humanity. I say yes to all that is beautiful in nature ... I say yes to all the men and women who are my brothers and sisters in the world.
Military sources deny reports Britain’s entire fleet of attack submarines is out of operation due to repairs
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9 killed when US sub hit Japanese fishing ship remembered
Uwajima Fisheries High School students offer flowers in memory of nine people killed when a U.S. Navy submarine accidentally rammed into the Ehime Maru, a training vessel for the school students, 16 years ago off Hawaii during a ceremony Friday, Feb. 10, 2017, at the memorial of the accident at the school in Uwajima, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The submarine's rudder sliced into the ship's hull some 6 miles offshore.
From submarine searching to subsea cable surveys
RV Geo Resolution, a hydrographic survey vessel owned by Hong Kong base EGS Survey, will leave Sydney's Glebe Island wharf in the next few days to commence surveying the seabed between Australia and the US in search of the optimal route for Southern Cross Cable's new submarine cable, Next. The 68 metre, 1913 tonne diesel electric-powered Geo Resolution started life in 1989 as the US Navy's Tenacious tracking Soviet submarines and after a stint as a New Zealand Navy hydrographic survey vessel was bought by EGS and converted for submarine cable route surveying in 2014.
Plenty Of Room At Guantanamo Bay for Trump’s ‘Bad Dudes’
Detention Center Camp 6, which can house as many as 175 people, now holds 26 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. President Trump has promised to send more war captives to Guantanamo Bay.