Marines fast track qualified cyber, signals recruits to rank of gunny
The Marine Corps has launched a pilot program that will allow qualified recruits to enter the Corps with a rank as high as gunnery sergeant.
By Todd South
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FBI needs new limits on use of foreign spy data, says advisory board
The White House board says FBI should stop using a database of foreigners’ emails and communications to investigate crimes other than national security.
Coast Guard cutter sailing to mystery debris site
Virginia watchstanders received a distress signal from an unregistered emergency position indicating radio beacon on Tuesday morning.
By Carl Prine
US Navy’s first Triton drones arrive in Guam
Two drones arrived in Guam and will serve as part of an early operational capability to develop a concept of operations for the high-altitude, long-endurance systems.
By Chiara Vercellone
Op-ed: Iran must come clean about the passenger jet it shot down
The author makes the case for a transparent international investigation to figure out what Iran did wrong, and why.
By Capt. Lawrence Brennan (retired)
Calls to loved ones reveal rough conditions before sinking
Coast Guard rescuers saved two mariners but couldn't locate the others and suspended the 20-hour search on Wednesday.
Navy and Coast Guard team up to rescue cruise ship passenger
With winds measured at 25 mph and seas up to 10 feet high, the Sea Hawk crew hoisted the passenger and transported him to medical care, Coast Guard officials said.
By Carl Prine
Search resumes for missing tour helicopter in Hawaii
Coast Guard officials said that the Dolphin helicopter conducted three search patterns Thursday evening along a northwest slab of Kauai while the Navy’s Sea Hawk crew spent five hours hunting along the northwestern shore.
By Carl Prine
Coast Guard and Navy searching for missing tour helicopter
It carried a pilot and six passengers — two of them children — and an electronic locator, but no signals have been received.
By Carl Prine
Coast Guard calls off search for missing man
Two others were rescued by a Good Samaritan vessel that responded to an early Wednesday mayday call.
By Navy Times staff
Illegally sold Chinese surveillance equipment installed at military installations, feds say
A Long Island firm sold tens of millions of dollars in Chinese-made surveillance and other sensitive security equipment to customers, including the U.S. military to use on aircraft carriers, by falsely claiming the goods were manufactured in America, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
Nobel laureate wants to kill off killer robots
In mid-November the parties to the Convention on Conventional Weapons will begin meeting in Geneva and they could start talks over limiting lethal artificial intelligence devices.
By Edith M. Lederer, The Associated Press