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Fighter jet slips off carrier hangar deck in Red Sea, one minor injury
An F/A-18 fighter jet slipped off the hangar deck of the USS Harry S. Truman as sailors were towing the aircraft into place, the Navy said.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
Blue Angels pilot makes emergency landing
The incident happened Tuesday in California.
Report: Pregnant spouses of deployed service members at higher risk of depression
U.S. studies on military spouses across all branches of the military show greater incidence of depression and other problems.
By Natalie Gross
That time the Navy decided to build a flying cannon
At least the American prototype didn't crash into a insane asylum. A British version did.
By Robert Guttman, Aviation History Magazine
Sea change: How the Navy kept reinventing itself over the past century
How the U.S. Navy reinvented itself — and its sailors — during a century of radical change in technology and warfare.
By Ronald Spector, Military History Quarterly
Coast Guard suspends search for plane off Florida coast
But Coast Guard crews in Texas, Virginia and Hawaii saved 10 people on Sunday.
By Carl Prine
At this time in 1941, a Clipper plane was trying to get home the hard way — flying around the world!
The attack on Pearl Harbor forced one Pan Am crew to attempt a round-the-world flight to escape Japanese warplanes. Others weren't so lucky.
By C.V. Glines, Aviation History Magazine
When Seabees weren’t building bases in Vietnam, they were fighting the enemy
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., includes 85 Seabees among its list of war dead—a tribute to their motto, “We build, we fight,” which is symbolized in their logo of a bee holding a wrench, hammer and machine gun.
By Tom Edwards, Vietnam Magazine
Search called off for 5 Marines aboard lost KC-130
A search over thousands of miles of waters off the coast of Japan was unable to find the lost crew.
Here are the top 3 contenders for the British Royal Navy’s new budget frigate
The U.K. plans to initially build five of the frigates, with a top-line budget of £1.25 billion for the whole program.
Nearly 200-year-old society ministers to mariners
The Charleston Port & Seafarers' Society, an ecumenical Christian organization, looks after the needs of mariners crisscrossing the globe, and of the stevedores on shore.
By ADAM PARKER, The Post and Courier of Charleston