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Navy Secretary Ray Mabus is scheduled to Bremerton Oct. 21, to make what will likely be his last visit to the Pacific Northwest as the longest-serving Secretary of the Navy since the Great War. During a civic event that day, Mabus will discuss the Navy's current state of affairs, the Navy's positive economic impact on Washington state, and thank those who continue to support our service members.
The story behind Australia's first submarine, which disappeared in 1914, is told in an exhibition at the Portland Library. War at Sea - the Navy in WWI is on tour from the Australian National Maritime Museum and tells servicemens stories through their diaries, mementos, ship's logs and letters home.
While U.S. President Donald Trump's budget proposal for national defense increases spending, it falls short of campaign promises to rebuild the U.S. Navy and a "historic" increase in military spending. The Department of Defense's budget proposal documents showed total defense spending for the 2018 fiscal year at $603 billion, a 10 percent or $52 billion increase over current congressional budget caps, but only about 3 percent higher than former President Barack Obama's proposed 2018 fiscal year defense budget.
What's a ride like in the Navy's largest and most sophisticated new destroyer? Capt. James Kirk compares it to "a really souped-up sport utility vehicle."
A local Republican Party office in North Carolina was torched by a flammable device and someone spray-painted an anti-GOP slogan referring to "Nazi Republicans" on a nearby wall, authorities said Sunday. A local Republican Party office in North Carolina was torched by a flammable device and someone spray-painted an anti-GOP slogan referring to "Nazi Republicans" on a nearby wall, authorities said Sunday.
The US Navy officially welcomed its largest and most technologically advanced destroyer to the fleet Saturday as the USS Zumwalt was commissioned in Baltimore. The Zumwalt is striking in appearance, with sharp angles and weaponry concealed behind flat surfaces, a design that makes it many times more difficult to spot on radar than conventional destroyers.
'I stood by your side this whole campaign, your beautiful dutiful wife': SNL's 'Melania' and the Trump women channel Beyonce as they warn he'd just be that 'guy with the weird hair' without them The State Department 'tried to make the FBI change the classification of emails during the Hillary Clinton investigation in exchange for more overseas postings for agents' Hillary Clinton told Goldman Sachs that Wall Street had to reined in for 'political reasons' in speeches released by Wikileaks after hackings NINTH Trump accuser comes forward: Clinton donor claims the billionaire kissed her on the mouth in front of her shocked family at Mother's Day lunch at Mar-a-Lago club Four dead and nine injured as 'drunk' Navy serviceman, 24, drives his truck off a San Diego bridge and lands on a music festival Two American hostages held in Yemen by pro-Iran rebels are released as Kerry tries to end ... (more)
'I stood by your side this whole campaign, your beautiful dutiful wife': SNL's 'Melania' and the Trump women channel Beyonce as they warn he'd just be that 'guy with the weird hair' without them Four dead and nine injured after 'drunk' Navy serviceman, 24, drove his truck off a San Diego bridge and landed on a music festival crowd below Man, 46, who 'killed a wanted child rapist in an act of vigilante justice' could be jailed for 20 YEARS as his trial gets underway U.S. military says it has detected a failed missile launch by North Korea when a projectile exploded shortly after liftoff What is this creepy jungle giant? Film shot deep in Indonesian forest shows a huge creature walking upright under a waterfall Ex-friend of Derrick Rose's rape accuser claims the woman is a 'pathological liar' who is 'trying to scheme and get money from him' An end to ultra-expensive rounds of IVF ... (more)
'I stood by your side this whole campaign, your beautiful dutiful wife': SNL's 'Melania' and the Trump women channel Beyonce as they warn he'd just be that 'guy with the weird hair' without them Four dead and nine injured after 'drunk' Navy serviceman, 24, drove his truck off a San Diego bridge and landed on a music festival crowd below Man, 46, who 'killed a wanted child rapist in an act of vigilante justice' could be jailed for 20 YEARS as his trial gets underway U.S. military says it has detected a failed missile launch by North Korea when a projectile exploded shortly after liftoff What is this creepy jungle giant? Film shot deep in Indonesian forest shows a huge creature walking upright under a waterfall Ex-friend of Derrick Rose's rape accuser claims the woman is a 'pathological liar' who is 'trying to scheme and get money from him' An end to ultra-expensive rounds of IVF ... (more)
Four people were killed on Saturday when a pickup truck hurtled off San Diego's Coronado Bridge, plummeting some 60 feet and crashing onto a park where hundreds of people had gathered for a festival. Authorities said four people in a vendor's booth died and eight were injured when a pickup truck plunged off the bridge's on-ramp before landing in Chicano Park, where a motorcycle rally was taking place.
'I stood by your side this whole campaign, your beautiful dutiful wife': SNL's 'Melania' and the Trump women channel Beyonce as they warn without them he'd just be that 'guy with the weird hair' Four dead and nine injured after 'drunk' Navy serviceman, 24, drove his truck off a San Diego bridge and landed on a music festival crowd below Man, 46, who 'killed a wanted child rapist in an act of vigilante justice' could be jailed for 20 YEARS as his trial gets underway U.S. military says it has detected a failed missile launch by North Korea when a projectile exploded shortly after liftoff What is this creepy jungle giant? Film shot deep in Indonesian forest shows a huge creature walking upright under a waterfall Ex-friend of Derrick Rose's rape accuser claims the woman is a 'pathological liar' who is 'trying to scheme and get money from him' An end to ultra-expensive rounds of IVF ... (more)
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson visited Naval Supply Systems Command at Naval Support Activity Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the Navy's 241st birthday today.
A Japanese flag that flew on the battleship of the man who planned the attack on Pearl Harbor has been donated to th... . Roger Schiradelly, left, and Scott Pawlowski, chief of cultural and natural resources for the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument, unpack a Japanese navy flag at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on Thursday, Oct.... .
In this Thursday Oct. 13 photo released by U.S. Navy, the guided missile destroyer USS Nitze launches a strike against coastal sites in Houthi-controlled territory on Yemen's Red Sea coast. WASHINGTON - U.S.-launched Tomahawk cruise missiles destroyed three coastal radar sites in Houthi-controlled territory on Yemen's Red Sea Coast early Thursday, officials said, a retaliatory action that followed two incidents this week in which missiles were fired at U.S. Navy ships.
The strikes marked the first shots fired by the U.S. in anger against the Houthis in Yemen's long-running civil war. The U.S. previously only provided logistical support and refueling to the Saudi-led coalition battling Yemen's Shiite rebels known as Houthis and their allies, including supporters of Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh.
The California Energy Commission and the Department of the Navy signed a Memorandum of Understanding formalizing a partnership that supports Navy and Marine Corps installation efforts to develop alternative energy resources and increase energy security and reliability. Following the MOU signing, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Energy, Installations and Environment Dennis V. McGinn announced that the Navy and Marine Corps will lease 205 new electric vehicles for use at California installations, the largest integration of electric vehicles in the federal government.
On Oct. 13, 1792, the cornerstone of the executive mansion, later known as the White House, was laid during a ceremony in the District of Columbia. In A.D. 54, Roman Emperor Claudius I died, poisoned apparently at the behest of his wife, Agrippina .
Harry "Bud" Harvey Lease Jr., 88, Lucerne, passed away Sunday, Oct. 9, 2016, at Logansport Memorial Hospital, after a brief illness. Born Dec. 25, 1927, in Lucerne, he was the son of the late Harry Harvey Lease Sr. and Cora Faye Burton.
To continue reading up to 10 premium articles, you must register , or sign up and take advantage of this exclusive offer: An embodiment of the future of submarines, the Illinois, is slated to be commissioned during a ceremony at the Naval Submarine Base later this month, at which point it will be the most modern attack submarine in the Navy's fleet. The Illinois is the 13th ship in the Virginia class of attack submarines, which weigh nearly 8,000 tons and are slightly longer than a football field.