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USS Zumwalt to receive hypersonic missile upgrades at HII
The destroyer's modernization period includes installation of the Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike hypersonic missile system.
By Diana Stancy
This school waives out-of-state tuition for vets, GI Bill or no GI Bill
Out-of-state tuition rates? For qualifying vets, there’s no such thing at this school — regardless of whether they have GI Bill benefits.
By Joshua Axelrod
Stricken warship Fitzgerald returns to the water
The guided-missile destroyer left dry dock this week, Navy officials said.
Navy air traffic controller honored for emergency landing aid
Last October, the sailor guided Boyd Williams through an emergency landing on U.S. 45 in Mississippi's Clarke County after Williams’ plane experienced engine failure.
Presidents’ Day pause: How ‘Uncle Sam’s Web-feet’ helped swing an election for Abe Lincoln
The U.S. Navy's triumph at Mobile Bay, combined with victorious Federal ground campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, helped reelect Abraham Lincoln and doomed the Confederacy to defeat.
By Gerald D. Swick, Civil War Times Magazine
That time the Chinese messed with our flag so we took their guns and used them to blow up their forts
Red, white and blew them up.
By Mark Simner, Military History
Navy to name warship after heroic Vietnam POW
Jeremiah Denton was shot down over North Vietnam in 1965 and blinked the word "torture" in Morse code during a TV interview the following year.
Mississippi lawmakers announce $930 million contract for shipyard
Lawmakers say a Mississippi shipyard has been awarded a $930.8 million contract to build the 10th and 11th U.S. Coast Guard National Security Cutters.
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