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Coast Guard nabs $20 million of illegal drugs in major bust
The Coast Guard seized $20 million worth of illegal drugs on Saturday in the Arabian Sea.
Destroyer Preble and Coast Guard detachment seize cocaine worth $40 million in counter-narcotics deployment
The Navy/Coast Guard team seized 100 bales of cocaine — or 2,000 kilograms — aboard a low-profile, go-fast vessel in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.
By Diana Stancy
Air National Guard unit activated in counter drug fight after Trump executive order
The Air National Guard unit, which the Pentagon won’t name for OPSEC reasons, is being activated in response to an executive order issued Thursday by President Donald Trump, calling on Defense Secretary Mark Esper to provide additional personnel to support the effort.
By Howard Altman
Naval buildup in Caribbean not aimed at ousting Maduro, says head of US Southern Command
The top U.S. military commander for Latin America said Friday that the Trump administration isn’t looking to use military force to remove Nicolas Maduro even as it expands counternarcotics operations in the Caribbean.
Police: 4 massage businesses with ‘US Navy nexus’ raided
The sheriff's office says surveillance operations showed a significant U.S. Navy connection and that the Naval Criminal Investigative Service was contacted for help.
SIGAR: Drug lab bombing was a dead end, and most metrics for success or failure in Afghanistan are ‘classified or nonexistent'
The drug lab bombing campaign in Afghanistan that was championed as a game-changer didn’t have the intended effect of hitting the Taliban’s purse and was probably a waste of resources.
By Kyle Rempfer
Admiral: LCS will hunt drug smugglers
The LCS will pick up a mission held by Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigates until 2015.
Mississippi man gets 3 years for stealing veteran’s ID
Senior U.S. District Judge Tom S. Lee on Thursday also ordered 56-year-old Tierun Bush of Jackson to pay full restitution to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
Naked Bush sailor arrested after mad dash through Busch Gardens parking lot
Dozens of attendees at Busch Gardens Williamsburg were taken on a very different roller coaster ride Friday night thanks to an unruly Navy man.
By Jon Simkins