A 63-day strike at Bath Iron Works — against the backdrop of a pandemic in an election year — came to an end Sunday with shipbuilders voting to return to their jobs producing warships for the United States Navy. The carrier and its strike group left Virginia in mid-January and returned this month to a very different America. Four lawmakers want to give the defense industrial base some relief from impending coronavirus issues. By Aaron Mehta
4 years ago Juniper Cobra is a joint Isreal-U.S. missile defense exercise that officially kicked off March 3 and was slated to last until March 13. Each ship is expected to cost about $900 million. An obstacle endurance course at Quantico, field training exercises at Fort Sill and more of this week's best military photos. The tour came several weeks after a memo was leaked that outlined a Pentagon proposal to cut shipbuilding. General Dynamics Bath Iron Works reached the milestone in the construction of the future guided-missile destroyer John Basilone. But top Republicans back Bath Iron Works. A defunct neo-Nazi online forum linked to the white nationalist extremist Atomwaffen Division had its chat logs posted online Wednesday. Load More