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Navy ship ran aground when officer went to dinner, investigation finds
A summary of an investigation found a loss of situational awareness and poor procedural compliance led to the grounding.
Best pics of the week: April 25, 2021
Best Ranger competition at Fort Benning, Air Force special tactics and combat rescue officer assessments at Hurlburt, and more in this week's Frontline Photos.
The Pentagon wants a $10B defense industry cash injection. Is Congress listening?
Pentagon leaders need “around $10 billion” in the next pandemic aid package to cover defense contractors’ coronavirus-related costs. But it’s unclear how the hefty funding handout will square with Republican skepticism of new deficit spending.
By Joe Gould
The only person convicted in Sept. 11 attacks now says he renounces terrorism, Osama bin Laden
The only man ever convicted in a U.S. court for a role in the Sept. 11 attacks now says he is renouncing terrorism, al-Qaida and the Islamic State.
WWII cryptologist, math genius Alan Turing chosen as the face of new English currency
Turing's life was the subject of the 2014 feature film, “The Imitation Game."
By J.D. Simkins
Apollo 11 at 50: Celebrating first steps on another world
Hundreds of millions tuned in to radios or watched the grainy black-and-white images on TV as Apollo 11's Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, in one of humanity's most glorious technological achievements.
Remembering Wally
Before he became one of the Mercury Seven, the irreverent astronaut Walter Schirra cut his teeth flying Navy fighters.
By Barrett Tillman, Aviation History Magazine
That time a Navy jet shot itself down
In this season of the practical joke, let's talk about some very bad mistakes unique to the world's military services.
By Alan Green, Military History Quarterly Magazine
How the armed forces inadvertently helped to decimate, then save, the osprey (feathery kind)
Along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay, nearly 20,000 Ospreys now arrive to nest each spring — the largest concentration of breeding pairs in the world. Two-thirds of them nest on buoys and channel markers maintained by the U.S. Coast Guard, who have become de facto Osprey guardians.
By Alan Poole, Cornell University
Nation bids goodbye to Bush with high praise, cannons, humor
The nation bid goodbye to George H.W. Bush with high praise, cannon salutes and gentle humor Wednesday, celebrating the life of the Texan who embraced a lifetime of service in Washington and was the last president to fight for the U.S. in wartime. Three former presidents looked on at Washington National Cathedral as a fourth — George W. Bush — eulogized his dad as “the brightest of a thousand points of light.”
Once lost in the mail, cruiser Antietam’s exam results graded — 58 advanced
It was a happy ending to a postal odyssey that should’ve ended at the Pensacola-based grading facility long before Nov. 20, when other commands worldwide began telling junior enlisted shipmates that they made the cut and were being advanced.
By Carl Prine