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‘Game changing’: Navy reloads cruiser’s missiles at sea for first time
The Navy resupplied a warship’s weapons at sea for the first time last week – providing what Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro called a “game changing” update in combat readiness for the surface fleet. The cruiser Chosin and its sailors employed the Transferrable Reload At-sea Method device, known as TRAM, to load the ship’s MK 41 Vertical Launching System off the coast of San Diego on Friday. The TR...[Read More]
‘Game changing’: Navy reloads cruiser’s missiles at sea for first time
The Navy resupplied a warship’s weapons at sea for the first time last week – providing what Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro called a “game changing” update in combat readiness for the surface fleet. The cruiser Chosin and its sailors employed the Transferrable Reload At-sea Method device, known as TRAM, to load the ship’s MK 41 Vertical Launching System off the coast of San Diego on Friday. The TR...[Read More]
‘Golden Dome’ success will require national buy-in, official says
President Donald Trump’s order for the military to build an advanced homeland missile shield will require a level of government cooperation akin to World War II’s Manhattan Project, a top Space Force official said this week. “It’s going to take concerted effort from the very top of our government,” Vice Chief of Space Operations Gen. Michael Guetlein said Wednesday. “It’s going to take national wi...[Read More]
‘He Will Be Missed’: One of Last USS Nevada Veterans Dies at 101
Charles Sehe served on the USS Nevada during Pearl Harbor, the D-Day invasion at Normandy, France and the 1945 invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa.
‘Made for this’ — Marine Corps drops new ad, motivation intensifies
“Marines are made for this — made for the calling only warriors can answer.” The bellowing narrative establishes a familiar aggressive tone in the Marine Corps’ newest ad, one that comes amid the military’s usual slew of philosophical shifts driving the rest of the Pentagon’s (oftentimes unpredictable) recruiting efforts. In their latest creation, the service’s marketing team, which settled on the...[Read More]
‘Made for this’ — Marine Corps drops new ad, motivation intensifies
“Marines are made for this — made for the calling only warriors can answer.” The bellowing narrative establishes a familiar aggressive tone in the Marine Corps’ newest ad, one that comes amid the military’s usual slew of philosophical shifts driving the rest of the Pentagon’s (oftentimes unpredictable) recruiting efforts. In their latest creation, the service’s marketing team, which settled on the...[Read More]
‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ is a veteran’s ghost story that refuses to fade
My Dead Friend Zoe opens with the familiar image of a soldier returning home, but the weight that follows is anything but typical. Directed by Army veteran and filmmaker Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, the film traces the uneasy civilian life of Merit, an Afghanistan war vet haunted by the ghost of her best friend and fellow soldier, Zoe. What could’ve been a flat metaphor is instead a fully embodied charac...[Read More]
‘My Dead Friend Zoe’ is a veteran’s ghost story that refuses to fade
My Dead Friend Zoe opens with the familiar image of a soldier returning home, but the weight that follows is anything but typical. Directed by Army veteran and filmmaker Kyle Hausmann-Stokes, the film traces the uneasy civilian life of Merit, an Afghanistan war vet haunted by the ghost of her best friend and fellow soldier, Zoe. What could’ve been a flat metaphor is instead a fully embodied charac...[Read More]
‘Obviously classified’: Experts say Hegseth chat leaks invited danger
Former U.S. defense officials said the details Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted on a non-government group chat ahead of U.S. airstrikes in Yemen earlier this month represent a serious breach of department policies and could have placed American troops at higher risk. But White House officials insist that senior leaders did nothing wrong and blasted critics for alleged exaggerations and fear-m...[Read More]
‘Obviously classified’: Experts say Hegseth chat leaks invited danger
Former U.S. defense officials said the details Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth texted on a non-government group chat ahead of U.S. airstrikes in Yemen earlier this month represent a serious breach of department policies and could have placed American troops at higher risk. But White House officials insist that senior leaders did nothing wrong and blasted critics for alleged exaggerations and fear-m...[Read More]
‘So this is war’: A young Marine’s account of days before Pearl Harbor
Fellow U.S. Marines and military historians know Col. Robert D. Taplett best for his valor during the Korean War. On Sept. 15, 1950, Taplett, commanding the 3rd Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment, led the initial landing of an amphibious assault at Inchon that resulted in victory for United Nations forces. Later that year, at the Chosin Reservoir, Taplett and the 3/5 Marines, often struggling ag...[Read More]
‘Something’s Going to Click’: Navy Veteran Looks to Reconnect with Baby He Saved in Hong Kong Nearly 60 Years Ago
When Steve Mulvihill and his fellow sailor, Jim Kennedy, were spending time in Hong Kong in 1965, they found themselves in a situation Mulvihill couldn’t have imagined and didn’t really talk much about until around 10 years ago: A man sold them a baby.