After spending almost a year at sea in the Middle East, America’s most senior aircraft carrier is finally heading home and a new mission for future deployments. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin gave the order to send the USS Nimitz (CVN-68) back to its home port of Bremerton, Washington, near Seattle. It has been gone …
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SAN DIEGO (AP) – The U.S. Navy on Tuesday dropped sexual assault charges against an enlisted SEAL in a case involving a female sailor at a Fourth of July party in Iraq that had prompted the rare withdrawal of the special operations unit from the Middle East in 2019. Under an agreement accepted by the …
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As he rolled up his sleeve to receive his first dose of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, Department of Veterans Affairs Press Secretary Terrence Hayes said he was excited to get a shot that will decrease the likelihood he’ll bring the coronavirus home to his family. “My wife is a very asthmatic person, so I definitely …
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Trevor R. Reed, a U.S. Marine Corp veteran serving a nine-year prison sentence in Russia, received fresh support from congressmen back home Tuesday ahead of a Moscow court hearing his appeal. House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Michael McCaul and Rep. August Pfluger, Texas Republicans, released a joint statement calling on Russia to release Mr. …
The U.S. military flies and maintains decades-old planes and helicopters — sometimes well beyond the planned years of service for the aircraft. But as the Defense Department works to counter fast-paced military advancements from China and Russia, it needs to think differently about investments, Marine Commandant Gen. David Berger said Tuesday. “The path we have …
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