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This ‘Puerto Rican Rambo’ went on 200 combat missions in Vietnam
He would deploy five times to Vietnam between 1961 and 1970.
By Jon Simkins
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The ‘Puerto Rican Rambo’ who went on 200 combat missions in Vietnam
He would deploy five times to Vietnam between 1961 and 1970.
By Jon Simkins
Truck crash kills chief
Automotive accidents killed at least 27 sailors during the federal fiscal year that ends Monday.
National Guard chief unworried by delay in repairs to Puerto Rico hurricane damage
Some efforts to rebuild Puerto Rico National Guard facilities from Hurricane Maria damage are on hold for now.
Homeland Security raids Coast Guard coffers to pay for border programs
FEMA also will be affected by a DHS move to reallocate $271 million, officials say.
Mutiny on the Amistad: ‘All we want is make us free.’
On Aug. 26, 1839, the Navy brig Washington seized the Spanish slaver Amistad near Montauk Point, New York, sparking one of the most important anti-slavery cases in American history.
By Dr. Howard Jones, American History Magazine
Man sentenced to 8 years for wife’s death on honeymoon
A Coast Guard rescue effort turned into a criminal probe.
Disaster aid package includes $2B for military. How much would each branch get?
A bill on Capitol Hill would address hurricane damage at U.S. military installations.
By Joe Gould
Woman gets 7 years for stealing from former Navy SEAL and his widowed mother
An Iowa woman has been given seven years in prison for stealing more than $192,000 from her now-dead fiance and his elderly mother.
Coast Guard interdicts boatload of undocumented Caribbean migrants
Coast Guard officials said that the cutter Heriberto Hernandez transferred a dozen Dominicans and two Haitians to a Dominican navy vessel on Sunday, three days after they were interdicted in a cramped boat near Puerto Rico’s Mona Island.
By Carl Prine
'Like school in a third world country’: One year after Hurricane Maria, student vets in Puerto Rico overcome daily struggles
For a tight knit community of student veterans at the Inter American University of Puerto Rico School of Law, classes have started again and life has taken on a new normal. But for many of them, the devastation isn’t done taking its toll.
By Natalie Gross
Navy senior chief faces multiple sex crimes charges
The senior chief logistics specialist awaits a March court-martial trial.
By Carl Prine