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F/A-18 Super Hornet pilots practice touch-and-go landings — on Iwo Jima
For the past 10 days, naval aviators across six squadrons attached to the aircraft carrier USS George Washington and carried out the time-honored tradition of field carrier landing practice — on Iwo Jima. Since 1991, Iwo Jima, known today in Japan as Iwo To, has been the practice site of “touch-and-go” landings for pilots looking to hone their skills and for those seeking to be qualified for carri...[Read More]
Facing death 275 feet beneath the sea, this pioneering naval diver earned the Medal of Honor
In March 1915, the Great War was spreading like a plague across Europe, Asia and Africa, but the United States of America was still uninvolved and desperately striving to keep out of it. While the menace of German submarines were becoming a growing threat in the Atlantic Ocean, nothing could be farther away from the U.S. Navy submarine F-4 (SS-23) as it performed maneuvers off Honolulu, Hawaii. On...[Read More]
Fallen Veterans Honored During National Wreaths Across America Day
Volunteers across the country honored deceased veterans by placing wreaths at their gravesites during the annual event.
False Threat Led to Naval Academy Lockdown and Then a Mistaken Shooting
A military official says a post on an anonymous chat platform triggered a lockdown at the U.S. Naval Academy this week.
False threat led to Naval Academy lockdown and then mistaken shooting
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — A post on an anonymous chat platform triggered a lockdown at the U.S. Naval Academy this week, and authorities investigating what turned out to be a false report of a gunman then shot and injured a midshipman who had mistaken them as a threat, a military official said Friday. The base that hosts the academy went into lockdown around 5 p.m. Thursday after it received a threat. Howe...[Read More]
Families of two men killed in Caribbean boat strike sue US government
The families of two Trinidadian men killed in an American military strike on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in October filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the United States government on Tuesday. The case marks the first legal challenge of its kind to President Donald Trump’s policy targeting vessels along narco-trafficking routes in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean. The lawsuit,...[Read More]
Family of man killed in US strike files human rights challenge
BOGOTA, Colombia — The family of a Colombian man has filed the first formal challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, arguing in a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas that his death was an extrajudicial killing. The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on Sept. 15, when he was sailing off Colombi...[Read More]
Family of man killed in US strike files human rights challenge
BOGOTA, Colombia — The family of a Colombian man has filed the first formal challenge to U.S. military strikes on alleged drug-carrying boats, arguing in a petition to the premier human rights watchdog in the Americas that his death was an extrajudicial killing. The petition from the family of Alejandro Carranza says the military bombed his fishing boat on Sept. 15, when he was sailing off Colombi...[Read More]
Faster fielding of laser weapons key to future fights, Navy’s top officer says
The Navy’s top officer issued a directive to get high-energy lasers into sailors’ hands as soon as possible to adapt to the modern combat environment. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Daryl Caudle released his 10th C-NOte on Wednesday, saying the service needs to incorporate directed energy technology sooner rather than later to combat a threat environment in which mass-produced, low-cost drones cha...[Read More]
Federal employee arrested after ‘active shooter hoax’ at NJ base
TRENTON, N.J. — A federal government employee was taken into custody Tuesday following an “active shooter hoax” that plunged New Jersey’s largest military base into lockdown earlier in the day, according to the state’s acting U.S. attorney, Alina Habba. In a social media post Tuesday night, Habba said the civilian employee — who has not been named — was in custody for “conveying false information ...[Read More]
Federal employee arrested after ‘active shooter hoax’ at NJ base
TRENTON, N.J. — A federal government employee was taken into custody Tuesday following an “active shooter hoax” that plunged New Jersey’s largest military base into lockdown earlier in the day, according to the state’s acting U.S. attorney, Alina Habba. In a social media post Tuesday night, Habba said the civilian employee — who has not been named — was in custody for “conveying false information ...[Read More]
Federal employee caused shooter hoax at NJ base to bond with coworkers
A scare about a supposed shooting that prompted a lockdown at New Jersey’s largest military base was a hoax caused by a civilian employee who wanted to “trauma bond” with her colleagues, according to federal prosecutors. Malika Brittingham, a civilian who works for the Naval Air Warfare Center and was assigned to Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, faces charges that she knowingly conveyed false inf...[Read More]