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Patriot League Official Athletic Site
April 22, 2018
Navy and Richmond Tied Through 36-Holes; The Mids' Morgan Frazier is the Individual Leader ROUND 1 SCORES Ãâ÷ ROUND 2 SCORES ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Defending champion Richmond and host Navy are tied with team scores of 59-over par 635 after 36-holes at the 2018 Patriot League Women's GolfÃâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
April 22, 2018
On October 11, 1967, the Israeli destroyer Eilat was sunk by three P15 cruise missiles fired by two dinky sixty-one-ton patrol boats of the Syrian Navy firing from nearly twenty miles away. The realization dawned on navies across the world that long-range “over-the-horizon” missiles had replaced the gun,Ãâà...
Economic Times
April 22, 2018
NEW DELHI: Navy Chief Admiral Sunil Lanba today began a five-day visit to Iran, where he would attend a conclave of major naval powers of the region ... The aim of the initiative was to enhance maritime cooperation among navies of the littoral states of the Indian Ocean Region by providing an open andÃâà...
The Daily Iberian
April 22, 2018
Trent Miles, who serves with the U.S. Navy in Guam, is shown in the photo with his wife, Alexis, who he says 'is my rock and she keeps me in the right state of mind, but I can't take her on missions, and that's the hardest part.' The NISH graduate has followed in the footsteps of his grandfather,Ãâà...
News 12 Long Island
April 19, 2018
Many Bethpage residents are dismissing a new report put out by the Navy about radium found in Bethpage water supplies. The 186-page report claims that radium found in the area of the former Navy site in Bethpage is consistent with naturally occurring levels normally found in the regional aquifer.
The National Interest Online
April 19, 2018
Unfortunately, the United States has increasingly failed to uphold its maritime interests. The Navy battle fleet is the primary instrument used by the United States to secure and, if necessary, defend them. Yet the fleet's size and condition reveal serious shortcomings. On the most basic level, the fleet averagedÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
April 19, 2018
“There really can be no excuse for sending our shipbuilding contracts overseas. “At a time when global tensions are rising, the Government should use this order to 'buy for Britain' and rebuild our defence shipbuilding manufacturing capabilities.” The MoD said all the Navy's warships are built in the UK andÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
April 19, 2018
A Southwest Airlines pilot who coolly landed a crippled plane yesterday after it lost an engine was a Navy aviation trailblazer in her past life. ... Some time ago, she was Lt. Cmdr. Shults, and was among the first cohort of women pilots to transition to tactical aircraft, Navy officials confirmed Wednesday. ShultsÃâà...
USNI News
April 19, 2018
By the end of 2024, the Navy will have 21 crews with female officers, and 14 of these crews will include female enlisted sailors, Cmdr. Sarah Self-Kyler, a SUBLANT spokeswoman, told USNI News on Wednesday. The Navy rescinded its males only on submarines policy in 2010. Not everyone agrees withÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
April 19, 2018
The Navy said 41-year-old Chief Petty Officer John Ellsworth Hasselbrink, a submariner who served 22 years at Pearl Harbor, was killed in a shooting Sunday. Pictured: an officer ... HONOLULU — The Navy has identified a man who was killed in a shooting Sunday at an Ewa Beach home. The Navy saidÃâà...
USNI News
April 19, 2018
The idea for a permanent command charged with monitoring readiness for Japan-based ships was promoted by the Navy's Comprehensive Review, created by Adm. Phil Davidson at the request of Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson. A follow-on report, created at the direction of Secretary ofÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
April 19, 2018
Clockwise from top left, Roark Corson (Coast Guard), Joshua Frawley (Marine Corps), Eve Glenn (Air Force), Isabelle Richards (Navy), Rebekah Paxton (Army) and Aaron Hall (National Guard) will be honored Thursday at Operation Homefront's 2018 Military Child of the Year ceremony. (Photos courtesy ofÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
April 18, 2018
While the group is touted as a way to help rectify the readiness issues in the West Pacific's 7th Fleet that came to light after two fatal ship collisions killed 17 sailors last summer, a strategic review ordered by Navy Secretary Richard Spencer called it out by name as another example of unnecessary NavyÃâà...
Newsday
March 25, 2018
Retired Navy Capt. Weyman Watson, who followed his Tuskegee Airman father into a career of military flight and later worked to preserve the legacy of that pioneering group of aviators, died of smoke inhalation in a March 18 fire at his home in South Orange, New Jersey. Watson, a 1974 graduate ofÃâà...
FloRugby
March 25, 2018
Army won its fourth straight meeting with Navy in a tight contest Saturday at Annapolis. In a game that saw only three tries scored, the Black Knights and the Midshipmen switched leads six times. Connor McNerney slotted an early penalty goal to put Navy up 3-0. But Army flyhalf Jon Kim answered with twoÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
March 25, 2018
Ice Camp Skate (March 16, 2018) – Chief Hospital Corpsman Kristopher Mandaro, assigned to Underwater Construction Team One, surfaces from a waterhole during a torpedo exercise in the Arctic Circle in support of Ice Exercise 2018, March 16. ICEX 2018 is a five-week exercise that allows the Navy toÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
March 23, 2018
The Korean War was raging and both men, Navy aviators assigned to Helicopter Squadron Two, based at Wonsan, Korea, traded off 24-hour pilot rescue duty shifts. A Marine Corps aviator was down and injured in a valley and Felten was on the clock. All the action seemed to happen on his shift.
Business Insider
March 22, 2018
How many carriers does the United States Navy have? Well, between the ten Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and the freshly commissioned USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the first of her class, you might think the answer is 11 — but you'd be underestimating. There are nine other ships in theÃâà...
Port Townsend Leader
March 22, 2018
I am writing as a concerned resident of one of the areas affected by the Navy's proposed Special Operations Warfare Training. Aside from environmental impacts of this program, the potential for psychological damage, even extreme trauma — to vulnerable populations such as young children, veterans ofÃâà...
USNI News
March 22, 2018
Last week before the Senate Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee, Navy nuclear programs director Adm. James Caldwell said “it required us to have another motor built” by the subcontractor. The overheating problem was traced to faulty insulation. The new motor has not yet been tested.
DefenseNews.com
March 22, 2018
A draft of the Omnibus spending bill released Wednesday night showed the Navy in line to get 23.8 billion for its shipbuilding account, $2.6 billion more than in 2017. The budget buys, among other things, an aircraft carrier, two Virginia-class submarines, three littoral combat ships, two destroyers, a newÃâà...
USNI News
March 22, 2018
The Navy worries the prospect of better pay, benefits, and lifestyle will lure aviators to the private sector, where the average annual salary for pilots is $105,720, according to a U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) report. This salary is augmented by such perks as receiving expense allowances for everyÃâà...
USNI News
March 21, 2018
Recent challenges to Navy recruiting and retention have left the sea service 11,000 sailors short of its required manpower level in the short term, and about 50,000 sailors short of the estimated force needed to crew a 355-ship fleet. Though the Navy has successfully fought for additional manpower fundingÃâà...
Popular Mechanics
March 21, 2018
The Navy's next generation ballistic missile submarine will cost $100 billion over the lifetime of the program, an amount Secretary of Defense Richard V. Spencer describes as “eye-watering.” The amount covers everything from research and development of the submarines to construction of the twelveÃâà...
The Drive
March 21, 2018
There have been largely unfounded claims that the Navy is 'abandoning' what was once its most high-profile future weapons technology, the electromagnetic railgun. But even though the Navy's railgun program continues, it still exists largely in a primordial research and development state. MeanwhileÃâà...
USNI News
March 21, 2018
“I would say it still is a tale of two Navies, absolutely, and the reason is because we haven't received the additional funding that's requested in the FY 18 bill,” said Vice Adm. William “Bill” Lescher, in charge of the Navy's integration of capabilities and resources. The Navy is currently operating under FiscalÃâà...
USNI News
March 20, 2018
Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition James Geurts told reporters today that it is still unclear what the final product would be after today's RFP – whether it would be a construction contract for two aircraft carriers, or some other means of allowing for the Navy and itsÃâà...
First Coast News
March 15, 2018
The U.S. Navy is spending $1 million on a three-year study that's aimed to find out whether or not surfing can counteract with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or PTSD. Disabled Navy vet and avid surfer, Bill McCrossin, told First Coast News he is excited about the study. "I love waking up before the sun andÃâà...
New York Magazine
March 15, 2018
A UFO research group on Friday released a declassified Pentagon video that apparently shows a U.S. Navy aircraft encountering a UFO, the third such video released in recent months. Published by the group To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, whose founders include former Blink-182 guitaristÃâà...
The Drive
March 15, 2018
"Starting next year, the Navy will retrofit 34 of its newest Arleigh Burke Class destroyers with an electric motor tied to the ship's main reduction gear, which will be able to propel the ship at speeds below about 13 knots. At higher speeds, where the ship's LM-2500 gas turbines are more efficient, the ships willÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
March 15, 2018
The White House is looking for part-time Navy officers wiling to act as social aides for functions at the executive mansion . (Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images). The White House is looking for a few good Navy officers for a part-time — and unpaid — job that often comes with free food, free entertainment and aÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
March 15, 2018
An F/A 18 Super Hornet, assigned to the "Blacklions" of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 213 crashed off Key West, Florida today. (U.S. Navy). WASHINGTON — A U.S. Navy fighter jet crashed Wednesday off the coast of Key West, Florida, killing its two crew members. The F/A-18 Super Hornet was onÃâà...
Dayton Daily News
March 14, 2018
An F/A-18F Super Hornet throws a vapor cloud as it approaches the speed of sound during a rehearsal flight for a past Vectren Dayton Air Show. The F/A-18 Super Hornet, the similar E/A-18 Growler, and the F-35 Lighting II are among aircraft that pilots have reported 'physiological episodes, includingÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
March 14, 2018
A Navy probe into a junior sailor who said his ship bunk was defaced with racial slurs concluded that he staged the incidents himself, according to a copy of the ... A copy of the investigation obtained by Navy Times via a Freedom of Information request lays out the sea service's case against Little.
Scuttlebutt Sailing News
March 11, 2018
San Pedro, CA (March 10, 2018) – The US Naval Academy Midshipmen sailed to the top of the leaderboard on Day Two of the Port of Los Angeles Harbor Cup regatta here. Vying against nine other college teams from across the US and Ireland, the Midshipmen logged three bullets, plus one fourth and oneÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
March 11, 2018
The gentlemen and ladies in the Cracker Jack uniform catch a lot of flak from all different directions, but the truth is no other Navy comes close to ours. Not even the once-famed British navy is able to compete with the might and power the United States Navy is able to project the world over. So what makesÃâà...
AV Club
March 11, 2018
What it's about: In the navy, yes, you can sail the seven seas. In the navy, yes, you can put your mind at ease. But maybe not that first one, if you're from a country that doesn't border water. Ten landlocked countries have navies to protect their shores, but no actual shores, and eight more have no waterfrontÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
March 9, 2018
Lawmakers are expressing concern about the state of the Navy's surge sealift fleet. The surge sealift ship Maj. Stephen W. Pless is shown here in 2016. (Navy). Any future war against a conventional military would require rapid transportation of massive amounts of troops and gear via the Navy's surge sealiftÃâà...
USNI News
March 8, 2018
Since becoming the Navy's chief weapons buyer, finding ways to save money throughout the department has been the focus of James Geurts, the assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development and acquisition. Appearing during a Wednesday House Armed Services Committee hearing, GeurtsÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
March 8, 2018
Hypoxia can cause pilots to become dizzy, disoriented and short of breath, and the issue had become so pronounced in the T-45s that last year a group of instructor pilots refused to fly the jets until their leadership addressed the problem. The Navy promptly grounded the jets and began a full-court press toÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
March 8, 2018
Malpractice at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, resulted in a family being awarded $24.7 million. (Army). A Navy spouse who suffered major kidney damage in 2013 after giving birth to a daughter at Tripler Army Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, scored a big win in a lawsuit against theÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
March 7, 2018
Accepting and soliciting gifts of lavish hotel rooms, drinks, meals and prostitutes has officially ended the careers of two of the Navy's rising stars — and will put ... The pair became the latest casualties of the Leonard “Fat Leonard” Francis scandal as they struck plea deals with Navy prosecutors and Adm. PhilÃâà...
USNI News
March 7, 2018
The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group, including the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57) and the guided-missile destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer (DDG 108) and USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112), operates with theÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
March 7, 2018
The heads of the Navy and Marine Corps criticized China's attempts to expand its global reach during a House hearing Wednesday. ... But Navy Secretary Richard Spencer said Beijing's effort to finance ports and other developments that stretch from East Africa across the Indian Ocean is an example of theÃâà...
USNI News
March 7, 2018
CAPITOL HILL — Following the release of new national security and defense strategies, the Navy is undertaking a new Fleet Structure Assessment that could alter its stated goal of a 355-ship fleet, senior service officials told Congress this week. A new FSA would take a look at the mix of surface ships andÃâà...
NavyTimes.com
March 6, 2018
Navy Times obtained the last three years — FY15 to FY17 — of PERSTEMPO data for the entire Navy from Navy Personnel Command. That information was then broken down and sorted into the graphics below, which show the five commands in each category where sailors are away from home the most.
ABC News
March 4, 2018
Washington Capitals left wing Jakub Vrana (13), of Czech Republic, celebrates his goal with right wing Tom Wilson (43) and defenseman Dmitry Orlov (9), of Russia, and center Evgeny Kuznetsov (92) of Russia, during the second period of an NHL hockey game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Saturday,Ãâà...
The National Interest Online (blog)
March 4, 2018
President Vladimir Putin's speech on the first of March revealed a whole panoply of new nuclear capabilities, from cruise missiles with nearly unlimited range to unmanned undersea vehicles also operating with extraordinary range, together with unprecedented speed and depth capabilities. While theÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
March 3, 2018
The total Department of the Navy (which includes both the Navy and the Marine Corps) request for research and development in fiscal year 2019 is $18.8 billion. But, somehow, these 12 programs for a, relatively, small amount of money didn't make it into the budget. Perhaps because they aren't reallyÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
March 2, 2018
According to a Navy news release, the Manchester is the 12th littoral combat ship to be delivered to the Navy and the seventh of the Independence make. Independence variants are distinct from other LCS due to their “unique trimaran hull, ability to operate at high speeds and its large flight deck size,”Ãâà...
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