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Meet the Samoan unit that fought barefoot during WWII
Members of the 1st Samoan Battalion defended their homelands.
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Your Navy
Montana ski town hosts military members who served in Kabul
For the servicemen who recently visited Whitefish, the opportunity to process their recent combat experience with other veterans was both healing and surreal.
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US Navy detains smuggling ship, UK seizes drugs in Mideast waters
The interdictions were just the latest in the volatile waters of the Persian Gulf.
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Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, NATO allies to launch exercise in Mediterranean
The exercise, which has been in the works since 2020 and isn’t in response to rising tension with Russia, will place the Truman and its carrier strike group under NATO operational control.
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Oops! Sailor accused of torching the Bonhomme Richard wore wrong insignia to his Article 32 hearing
Someone in his chain failed to ensure the junior sailor was squared away.
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USS Milwaukee confiscates more than $20 million in suspected cocaine
Roughly 315 kilograms of suspected cocaine were uncovered.
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Naval Academy offers looser liberty if more students get COVID booster
After a vaccine booster evolution conducted Friday, the number of mids who had received a COVID-19 booster immunization jumped from 71% in early December to 87%.
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Weapon, illicit drug seizures in U.S. 5th Fleet skyrocketed in 2021
The hike in seizures comes amid increased patrols in the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian Sea.
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How the landlocked state of Nebraska got its own navy
Nebraska admirals are in charge of the tadpoles and the goldfish.
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Go Armie!: Green Beret-turned congressman names baby after his beloved branch
Rep Mike Waltz named his newborn son "Armie."
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USS Kitty Hawk headed for the scrapyard
Fair winds and following seas, Miss Kitty.
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Vinson strike group, Essex ARG conduct operations in South China Sea
The exercise marked the first time an amphibious ready group has operated with an “advanced Air Wing of the Future,” according to the Navy.
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Marines didn’t properly track Afghan evacuees at Quantico, Virginia
Marines responded to a medical emergency daily for the first month that Quantico, Virginia, housed 3,755 Afghan evacuees.
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Inflation and unpredictable funding are straining Navy readiness, says top officer
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday said the Navy’s funding levels have remained “flat relative to inflation for over a decade."
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Master chief headed to trial over alleged ‘maltreatment’ of subordinates
He's also been charged for allegedly forcing a subordinate to falsely report a COVID-19 test result.
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5 military movies to watch in 2022
Grab your popcorn.
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Carrier Vinson suffered four ‘Class A’ mishaps in late 2021
No sailors were injured in any of the accidents, officials said.
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US Navy works to speed up damage assessments, ship repairs
The Navy won't just assume that battle damage assessments and repairs happen during war games and live exercises. It wants to actually practice these skills on ships.
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Navy should be ‘offended’ by its own maintenance and manning faults, admiral says
Adm. Daryl Caudle, commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command, said the Navy does not have the “luxury to do more with less.”
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US Navy official says service is going ‘head to head with our adversaries’ all over the world
Vice Adm. Roy Kitchener shared how the guided missile destroyer Mustin shadowed a Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning in the South China Sea in April 2021.
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Sailor injured in helicopter’s hard landing in Virginia
A Navy MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter crashed in Virginia Wednesday, causing non-life threatening injuries to one crew member.
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The Navy is making chaplains a permanent part of destroyer crews
The effort began last month in the always-busy Japan-based U.S. 7th Fleet.
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Hunt Companies settles housing fraud claim at Dover Air Force Base
A whistleblower lawsuit alleged Hunt Companies officials submitted false maintenance information to the Air Force in order to get higher performance incentive payouts.
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Army wife uses AirTag hack to track her movers while PCSing
An Army spouse shared her experience taking PCSing into her own hands.
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How a Beltway naval breakfast sparked China’s ire over Taiwan
The indignant firestorm over a breakfast hosted by the private Naval Attachés Association showcases another example of Beijing’s belligerence over Taiwan.
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Navy cites ‘operator error’ in fuel spill linked to families’ tainted water
The crisis has affected more than 9,000 Navy, Army and Air Force households at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam and the Army’s Aliamanu Military Reservation and Red Hill communities, which are on the Navy water system.
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