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Nearly half of troops surveyed worry the U.S. will be drawn into a major conflict in the next year.
Coast Guard interdicts boatload of undocumented Caribbean migrants
Coast Guard officials said that the cutter Heriberto Hernandez transferred a dozen Dominicans and two Haitians to a Dominican navy vessel on Sunday, three days after they were interdicted in a cramped boat near Puerto Rico’s Mona Island.
Investigators: ‘No foul play’ in gunshot death of Seabee in Mississippi
Originally from Oregon, Builder Constructionman Grace Kayla Davis-Marcheschi died early Saturday morning at a military housing development on Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi from what authorities described as a gunshot wound.
Support for Trump is fading among active-duty troops, new poll shows
A new Military Times poll shows that troops today are evenly split in their views about President Trump.
Navy identifies Seabee shot to death in Mississippi
Builder Constructionman Grace Kayla Davis-Marcheschi died early Saturday morning at military housing belonging to Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi.
Trump says Mattis is 'sort of a Democrat’
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Visitors row the Olympias, a replica of an ancient galley, at Saronic gulf in southern Athens. The 37-meter (121-foot) wooden vessel moored off southern Athens is an experimental reconstruction of the trireme, the sleek ancient Greek warship that halted a Persian invasion of Europe and ruled the Mediterranean for centuries. Every summer, visitors can get a whiff of life in the galleys 2,500 years ago by joining the crew of the Olympias, and work up a sweat rowing it. (Thanassis Stavrakis/AP)

Greek navy offers taste of life in ancient galleys

Every summer, visitors can get a whiff of life in the galleys 2,500 years ago by joining the crew of the Olympias — and work up a sweat rowing it.
Ship graveyard discovered in treacherous waters
Underwater explorers located traces of five more ancient shipwrecks in the eastern Aegean Sea, raising to 58 the number of wrecks found since 2015 around Fourni, a notoriously dangerous point on an ancient shipping route.
Navy veteran to stay in Utah jail in ricin-letter case
Judge fears he could still be a danger.
Air Force contractor pays $1M to settle bill-padding claims
A U.S. Air Force subcontractor has agreed to pay $1 million to settle government allegations that it padded its bills.
‘Mr. Secretary, are you a Democrat?’
Mattis responds to Trump's comment that the Defense Secretary is 'sort of a Democrat."
Black woman who fought discrimination during trailblazing Navy career dies at 83
Raye Montague made history as the first person to design a Navy warship — the frigate Oliver Hazard Perry — with a computer program. She produced the key draft design for the guided-missile frigate in less than 19 hours.

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Marine Corps Sgt. Jade Woodend, assigned to Battalion Landing Team 3/1, fires a FIM-92 Stinger from the flight deck of the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2) during a scheduled deployment with the Essex Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). (MC3 Jenna Dobson/Navy)

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Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Brain Chilson, with Landing Craft Air Cushion (LCAC) 63, assigned to Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, watches over the departure of an LCAC from Red Beach in preparation of San Francisco Fleet Week Sept. 27, 2018. (Cpl. Jacob Farbo/Marine Corps)

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U.S. soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade engaged targets with the Carl Gustaf 84mm weapon system in Grafenwoehr, Germany, Sept. 8, 2018, during Saber Junction 18. (Capt. Joseph Legros/Army)

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Tactical air control party Airmen with the 227th Air Support Operations Squadron, New Jersey Air National Guard, demonstrate a special extraction system while hanging from a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter assigned to the 1st Assault Helicopter Battalion, New Jersey Army National Guard, during the 2018 Atlantic City International Airshow at Atlantic City, New Jersey, Aug. 22, 2018. (Mark C. Olsen/New Jersey National Guard)

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