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US Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet strikes, disables oil tanker in Gulf of Oman
An F/A-18 Super Hornet assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln fired a precision munition into the vessel's engineering and steering spaces.
By J.D. Simkins
Navy fires leadership trio of ship repair facility in Japan
The service did not specify the reason for the firings.
By Riley Ceder
My grandpa was killed in World War II. I met him through his letters home.
My grandpa never came back from World War II. I found his final resting place in France.
By Gina Wolf, The War Horse
‘Return of the Dead’: The unthinkable choice faced by military families after WWII
Shortly after the war, more than 171,000 remains were returned to the U.S., while next of kin chose to have more than 110,000 buried overseas.
By Richard Sisk
Why is it taking so long to identify America’s unknown fallen heroes?
Forensic DNA experts say it should take the Pentagon years—not decades—to ID the remains of thousands of nameless service members in military cemeteries.
By Ken McLaughlin, The War Horse