US Navy ‘wasted’ $1.8 billion on cruiser modernization program: Report
The report found that the Navy’s cruiser rehab program has had “weak oversight” and been “plagued with ... delays, wasted costs and poor-quality work.”
By Todd South
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The Navy’s continuing cruiser debacle
A lengthy and costly effort to modernize the aging cruisers has not gone as planned, the Navy admits.
Who’s really in this iconic Vietnam War photo?
It has become one of the most enduring photographs of the Vietnam War.
Remember that time we forgot a navy and had to go back and get it?
“We forgot ’em.”
By Don North, Vietnam 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