Tests to Fix Big Design Flaw Plaguing Navy’s Littoral Combat Ships Will Start Soon

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After new deliveries of the Navy’s littoral combat ships were halted in January over a serious design flaw, testing will begin this month to fix the problem, the Navy’s top admiral said. Tests to fix problems with the Freedom-class littoral combat ships’ combining gear will take place ashore, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday …

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Here’s the military record of the Navy corpsman allegedly behind the shooting at Fort Detrick

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The hospital corpsman who was killed at Fort Detrick, Maryland, on Tuesday after he allegedly shot two other sailors near the base had an unremarkable career in the Navy, according to his military record. Fantahun Girma Woldesenbet, originally from Virginia, enlisted in the Navy in September 2012 and had served as a petty officer third …

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US military cites rising risk of Chinese move against Taiwan

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The American military is warning that China is probably accelerating its timetable for capturing control of Taiwan, the island democracy that has been the chief source of tension between Washington and Beijing for decades and is widely seen as the most likely trigger for a potentially catastrophic U.S.-China war. The worry about …

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