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The amphibious assault ship Essex arrived to cheers in San Diego Bay on Thursday, 24 hours after it collided with a tanker in the Pacific when the warship’s steering apparently failed.
The amphibious assault ship Essex collided with the oiler Yukon during an underway replenishment operation Wednesday in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of southern California, 3rd Fleet said in a statement.
In addressing the specifics of the plan to allow females to join infantry battalions the Army is considering making the prestigious Ranger School co-ed, Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said.
The same degenerative brain disease found in football players and boxers has been found in veterans exposed to roadside bombs, a finding with potentially profound implications.
The Army would be forced to remove an additional 80,000 to 100,000 troops from its active-duty and Reserve rosters if automatic budget cuts occur, its chief of staff says.
The cost of the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan is about to rise by $365 million annually under a deal to reopen a key NATO supply route through Pakistan that’s been closed nearly six months.
A congressional subcommittee has questioned the manning plan for the Navy’s newest class of warships and signaled that it will force the Navy to keep three of seven selected cruisers from an early retirement.
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Marine Gen. John Allen, is likely to leave to become the supreme allied commander in Europe next year as the war effort moves toward its final phase.