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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 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.
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.
A military pay raise, more money for new submarines and millions of dollars for on-base construction projects highlight the 2019 defense spending blueprint now before Congress. This week, House and Senate negotiators released a compromise version of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act .
When it comes to undersea naval fleet, Indian Navy's submarine strength is way ahead of its neighbours Pakistan and Bangladesh, but pales in comparison to China. As per a report by Naval Analyses, India has 15 conventional submarines , two nuclear-powered submarines with nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles and one nuclear-powered submarine INS Chakra.
The Navy said last week that servicewomen could sport ponytails, lock hairstyles, or ropelike strands, and wider hair buns, reversing a policy that long forbade females from letting their hair down. Servicemen immediately chimed in on social media, asking the Navy if they could grow beards.
Hazmat suits hang next to the canal that leads from Balaklava Bay to the heart of the underground base. Lucian Kim/NPR hide caption Today, white yachts bob on the turquoise surface of Balaklava Bay, a quiet inlet hidden from the open waters of the Black Sea.
The Navy said last week that servicewomen could sport ponytails, lock hairstyles, or ropelike strands, and wider hair buns, reversing a policy that long forbade females from letting their hair down. Servicemen immediately chimed in on social media, asking the Navy if they could grow beards.
The House on Tuesday passed several legislative measures to draw attention to defense funding disruptions that some lawmakers contend have helped fuel a crisis in military readiness. As two annual defense bills are negotiated by members of Congress, House lawmakers debated several resolutions that argued gaps in military spending, which resulted in nine temporary funding measures in recent years, have led to a rash of ship and aircraft crashes that killed dozens of servicemembers.
Allison Crowder tried to apply for special veterans benefits, which his daughter discovered on the Social Security Administration's website, but there's a big problem. The government agency may not honor the benefits form, even though at last check, anyone with a computer can find it.
In this Dec. 14, 2013 file photo, Navy women's soccer goalkeeper Elizabeth Hoerner stands in formation before the start of the Army Navy NCAA college football game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.
One of the Philippines' closest allies, South Korea, will help the country modernize its defense capability, particularly the acquisition of new helicopters and submarines. This was confirmed by South Korean Ambassador to the Philippines Han Dong-Man in an exclusive interview over the weekend with the Philippine News Agency .
The agency that's redeveloping the former Brunswick Naval Air Station says about 500 jobs have been added over the past year, bringing the total to about 1,700. He said there are five new companies this summer and that more will be added by year's end.
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.
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.
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.