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Best pics of the week: July 25, 2021
Marines on the Coral Sea, Army paratroopers in Alaska and more in this week's Frontline Photos.
2 US sailors on French carrier test positive for COVID-19
The sailors have been removed from the ship and “are receiving excellent host nation medical care at French facilities.”
By Jon Simkins
The price of valor
“Show me a hero, and I’ll show you a tragedy,” Scott Fitzgerald once wrote. A case in point is Audie Murphy, the most highly decorated man in American military history.
By Roger J. Spiller, Military History Quarterly
The Wakanda of the Western Hemisphere
Haiti's Black Panther was King Henry I.
By Marlene Daut, University of Virginia
Countdown: Your top story for 2020!
In the coming year, Navy brass must try harder at being moral servant leaders and less like a gaggle of pious frauds.
By Navy Times staff
The nautical beginnings of America’s war on drugs
Cutters versus contraband traffickers heading for San Francisco Bay.
By Daniel Laliberte, HistoryNet.com
5 Italian troops wounded by roadside explosion in Iraq
A roadside blast wounded five Italian military members Sunday in northern Iraq as they returned from a mission aimed at helping Iraqi troops combat the Islamic State group, Italian military officials said.
Op-ed: How Christopher Columbus became an unlikely national symbol
The author pitches a darker view of the Italian adventurer than is taught in U.S. classrooms.
By William Francis Keegan, University of Florida
Op-ed: How video games can bring history back to life
This is Gaminiscing 101, your introduction to how the tools of video games can be used to share personal history.
By Bob De Schutter, Miami University
Court overturns Navy officer’s sex crime convictions in boozy Rota incidents
The case was fraught with unreliable witnesses because most of the officers “were intoxicated to some degree."
By Navy Times staff
Warships sail to safety as Dorian looms
The Navy also issued an emergency evacuation order Wednesday evening for all non-essential active-duty service members and their families, activated reservists and civilian Department of Defense and Navy employees for a wide swath of coastal North Carolina.
By Navy Times staff