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WWII shipwrecks revealed in historic survey of Ironbottom Sound
After 22 days above and below the sea, the Maritime Archaeology of Guadalcanal expedition (NA173) concluded its comprehensive and historic surveys of the infamous Ironbottom Sound — and the results are stunning. Led by Ocean Exploration Trust aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus, live video available for everyone around the world captured more than a dozen vessels lost during the Solomon Islands cam...[Read More]
Yemen’s Houthis Signal They’ll Now Limit Their Attacks in the Red Sea Corridor to Israeli Ships
The Houthis’ announcement, made in an email sent to shippers, likely won’t be enough to encourage global firms to reenter the route that’s crucial for cargo and energy shipments moving between Asia and Europe.
Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, Dominion Exploring Energy Projects, Including Nuclear Reactor
Potential projects at the weapons station could include solar farms, turbine energy or a small modular nuclear reactor.
‘A nightmare’: The Coast Guard’s harrowing flight to Camp Mystic
Seth Reeves was only supposed to be at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, for two weeks. He was slated to work from July 1 to July 15 as part of the Aviation Training Center’s flight mechanic exchange program, which allows guardsmen to stand duty at operational air stations. He had become a third-class aviation maintenance technician just over one year ago, in March 2024. But on J...[Read More]
‘A nightmare’: The Coast Guard’s harrowing flight to Camp Mystic
Seth Reeves was only supposed to be at U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, for two weeks. He was slated to work from July 1 to July 15 as part of the Aviation Training Center’s flight mechanic exchange program, which allows guardsmen to stand duty at operational air stations. He had become a third-class aviation maintenance technician just over one year ago, in March 2024. But on J...[Read More]
‘Antwone Fisher’ is the most important military film you haven’t seen
Military films often depict war zones, firefights and battlefield heroics, but Denzel Washington’s 2002 directorial debut “Antwone Fisher” takes a different approach. Based on a true story, the film follows Antwone Fisher, a young Navy sailor whose violent outbursts and disciplinary issues stem from a deeply traumatic past. The story focuses on the internal war Fisher fights, a struggle some servi...[Read More]
‘Bad paper’ discharge upgrades are taking too long. Can that be fixed?
It’s been more than a decade since Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel issued a 2014 memo calling for “liberal consideration” of discharge upgrade requests from veterans with symptoms of post-traumatic stress. But today, vets with discharges below honorable are still remaining in limbo for months or years, without access to full benefits of service and facing potential barriers to employment. That’s acc...[Read More]
‘Colder than hell’: Two vets recall Battle of the Bulge fears, mayhem
It has been dubbed by historians as “the greatest single victory in U.S. history.” But for veterans Harry Miller and Frank Cohn, it wasn’t the 200,000 Germans, 1,000 tanks and assault weapons, the 1,900 artillery pieces or even the 2,000 German supporting aircraft that they remember. It was the cold. “Colder than hell. I can’t describe it,” Miller recalled during a Nov. 13, 2024, conversation with...[Read More]
‘Fat Leonard,’ Navy scandal mastermind, sentenced to 15 years
SAN DIEGO — Former military defense contractor Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison for masterminding a decade-long bribery scheme that swept up dozens of U.S. Navy officers, federal prosecutors said. U.S. District Judge Janis L. Sammartino also ordered Francis to pay $20 million in restitution to the Navy and a $150,000 fine, according to a statement from the ...[Read More]
‘Fat Leonard’ Appeals 15-Year Sentence, But Does So Under Seal — At Least for Now
Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian contractor known as “Fat Leonard” at the center of the U.S. Navy’s worst-ever bribery and corruption scandal, has appealed the 15-year prison term he was sentenced to last year.
‘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]