Gay rights icon Harvey Milk will have a Navy vessel named for him

A Navy vessel will travel the world bearing the name of gay rights icon Harvey Milk, the most prominent gesture towards the LGBT community in military history. The U.S. Naval Institute News obtained a leaked Congressional memo from July 14, showing that Navy Secretary Ray Mabus signed plans to name a Military Sealift Command fleet oiler "the USNS Harvey Milk."

The Navy Is Naming A Ship After LGBTQ Pioneer Harvey Milk

The Navy is set to name a ship after the pioneering LGBTQ activist Harvey Milk, who was killed while in office in 1978. The Navy is planning to name one of its new oil tankers after the pioneering gay rights activist who served his country as a diving officer during the Korean War, Milk had to hide his sexuality when he served because openly gay people were officially banned from serving in the U.S. armed forces - a rule that lasted until 2011.

Cubic Awarded a Five-Year $73 Million Follow-On Contract to Support US Marine Corps Aviation Training

The follow-on contract is the third consecutive award Cubic has received since 2005. Under the task order, awarded by the Naval Air Warfare Center, Training Systems Division in Orlando, Florida, Cubic will provide operations and maintenance support of military aviation training devices and simulators at various Marine Corps Air Stations , including MCAS Cherry Point, MCAS New River, MCAS Camp Pendleton, MCAS Miramar, MCAS Yuma and Marine Corps Base Hawaii Kaneohe Bay.

US says Guantanamo base worker got Zika after Jamaica trip

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, an avowed white supremacist, officially signed up Friday to run for U.S. Senate in Louisiana. President Barack Obama fiercely rejected Donald Trump's depiction of an America in crisis on Friday, arguing that violent crime and illegal immigration have plunged under his leadership to their lowest rates in... President Barack Obama fiercely rejected Donald Trump's depiction of an America in crisis on Friday, arguing that violent crime and illegal immigration have plunged under his leadership to their lowest rates in decades.

Spain demands explanation over collision of UK Navy sub

Spain is seeking an urgent explanation from British authorities after a Royal Navy submarine was forced into port in Gibraltar following a collision with a merchant vessel. In a statement Thursday, the Foreign Ministry said the government was seeking all information from the British embassy in Madrid regarding the damage done to the submarine and how the prior day's incident occurred.

Yo-ho-ho and an autonomous boat: Smart watercraft could help the Navy fight pirates

We've all heard a lot about autonomous cars and there's been plenty written about drones taking to the air, but we've not seen so much discussion about boats, or autonomous watercraft. BAE Systems has been working on autonomous naval technologies, in a project that has sprung up surprisingly quickly.

Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Thursday 21 Jul 2016

US senator Ted Cruz, a failed challenger for the Republican nomination for the presidency, was booed at the party's convention yesterday for not endorsing his former rival Donald Trump. Cruz - who described Trump in May as "a pathological liar", "a narcissist" and "utterly immoral" - left the stage under a barrage of protest.

‘Earthquake’ reported off Florida waters was really a Navy test

Remember all that social media buzz over the weekend about an earthquake off the coast of Daytona Beach? Never mind. It appears the “earthquake” detected by the U.S. Geological Survey on Saturday was really triggered by a manmade explosion designed to test the seaworthiness of a new Navy vessel.

Port Chicago explosion anniversary marked as US focuses on race

On a day when America's struggle with racial issues raged again, hundreds of Bay Area residents gathered in the East Bay to remember a mostly forgotten race-tinged incident that occurred 72 years earlier, taking the lives of 202 African Americans and leaving 50 more convicted of mutiny. The annual commemoration of the horrific Port Chicago explosion took place not at the Port Chicago Naval Magazine, which President Obama made a national memorial in 2009, but a couple of miles inland under a large, wind-buffeted white tent.

2 found safe in ocean after plane disappears from radar

The Coast Guard rescued a man and woman in the ocean off Hawaii on Friday, nearly a day after the plane they were in disappeared from radar. "What a way to celebrate aloha Friday," Coast Guard spokeswoman Petty Officer 2nd Class Tara Molle said of the relief in finding the two alive.

Woman who pointed out alleged rapist is sentenced in killing

Esparza a former psychology professor was sentenced Friday to six years in prison for the 1995... Norma Patricia Esparza was a Southern California college student in 1995 when she says she was raped by a man she met at a bar. A black man killed by police in front of a convenience store was remembered as the "meaning of Southern hospitality" and a good man whose death at the hands of two white police officers "woke up Baton Rouge and... Grieving residents of Baton Rouge honored an appeal at the funeral of a black man killed by police to celebrate his life rather than demonstrate about his death.

France attacker menacing, volatile; jihadist ties a question

A New Hampshire woman is free after serving a three-year prison sentence for luring a co-worker to her apartment in 2012 as a sex offering to her domineering boyfriend, then helping him dispose of the... A New Hampshire woman is free after serving a three-year prison sentence for luring a co-worker to her apartment in 2012 as a sex offering to her domineering boyfriend, then helping him dispose of the co-worker's body... The Western district of the Methodist church has elected an openly gay bishop despite the denomination's ban on same-sex relationships. The Western district of the Methodist church has elected an openly gay bishop despite the denomination's ban on same-sex relationships.