US has seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Trump says
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Using U.S. forces to seize an oil tanker is incredibly unusual and marks the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States. The U.S. has ...[Read More]
US has seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Trump says
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the United States has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela as tensions mount with the government of President Nicolás Maduro. Using U.S. forces to seize an oil tanker is incredibly unusual and marks the Trump administration’s latest push to increase pressure on Maduro, who has been charged with narcoterrorism in the United States. The U.S. has ...[Read More]
US Navy recovers helicopter, jet that crashed in South China Sea
The U.S. Navy on Friday salvaged an F/A-18F Super Hornet and MH-60R Seahawk helicopter that went down in the South China Sea on Oct. 26, the U.S. 7th Fleet said this week. Task Force 73 — along with Task Force 75, Naval Sea Systems Command’s supervisor of salvage and diving and CTG 73.6’s Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit — recovered both aircraft from a depth of around 400 feet. “Everyone involved b...[Read More]
You can thank Theodore Roosevelt for the Army-Navy game
Canceled by President Grover Cleveland. Restored by then-Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt — the Army-Navy football game is in its 135th year. The first game, played on the Plain at West Point on Nov. 29, 1890, set the tone for the rivalry, with both teams meting out heavy punishment. Navy’s captain, Red Emrich, was knocked unconscious twice during the game but continued to play, ...[Read More]
Army OB-GYN charged with secretly filming dozens at Fort Hood
The U.S. Army on Tuesday charged a OB-GYN with secretly filming the medical exams of dozens of people. “The U.S. Army Office of Special Trial Counsel preferred four charges and 61 specifications against Maj. Blaine McGraw,” the Army’s Office of Special Trial Counsel said in a statement, adding that the offenses occurred between Jan. 1 and Dec. 1, 2025 and that there were 44 victims. Over 50 of the...[Read More]
Navy Partners With Palantir for $448 Million AI Submarine Shipbuilding Deal
“The Department of War is unleashing a new era of operational dominance, where every warfighter wields frontier AI as a force multiplier,” a Navy spokesperson told Military.com.
Commander Jason Blickens
Commander Jason Blickens is a native of Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Arkansas.
U.S. Navy and Marine Corps, Malaysian Armed Forces conclude CARAT 2025
U.S. Navy Sailors and U.S. Marine Corps Marines reunited with the Royal Malaysian Navy in Lumut, to execute Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Malaysia 2025, Dec. 4-10, 2025.
The Army-Navy game that ‘stopped the war’
By 1944 the United States had entered its fourth year of the Second World War. The invasion to retake Europe had begun June 6, and the American public was transfixed by its military forces clawing back Europe from the clutches of Nazi Germany. Amid this backdrop came the game of the century that, albeit briefly, delivered a respite from the far-flung battles across the globe and drew attention bac...[Read More]
US Military Flies 2 Fighter Jets Over the Gulf of Venezuela as Scrutiny Grows
The U.S. military flew a pair of fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela in what appears to be the closest American warplanes have come to the South American country’s airspace since the start of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign.
Leaders of WWII Namesake Submarines Carry Legacy Forward
This year’s Pearl Harbor Day observance marks the 84th anniversary of the surprise attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet by Japanese forces. The commemoration honors and remembers the more than 2,400 service members and civilians who died on Dec. 7, 1941, and plunged the U.S. into World War II.
US military flies 2 fighter jets over Gulf of Venezuela
The U.S. military flew a pair of fighter jets over the Gulf of Venezuela on Tuesday in what appears to be the closest American warplanes have come to the South American country’s airspace since the start of the Trump administration’s pressure campaign. Public flight tracking websites showed a pair of U.S. Navy F/A-18 fighter jets fly over the Gulf — a body of water bounded by Venezuela and only ab...[Read More]