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The Navy plans to deploy its new MQ-4C Triton long-range surveillance unmanned aircraft to the Middle East in 2016, Rear Adm. Sean Buck, commander of...
Amid community concerns over noise and safety issues, the Navy Department is moving ahead with plans to evenly split its West Coast fleet of the new F-35B Joint Strike Fighter jets between Miramar Marine Corp Air Station and Yuma, Ariz.
One of the best known -- and most controversial -- public figures of recent years, who said he never used e-mail, is now a devotee of social media, and is using it as a means of re-emerging in public after several years of low-profile life.
Commander, Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 2 and Commander, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade (MEB), in coordination with ships assigned to the U.S. 2nd Fleet, will begin Bold Alligator 2011 today, commencing the largest joint fleet simulated amphibious exercise in the past 10 years.
The announcement comes toward the end of what’s been an extraordinary year for Navy officer firings -– though not the record year. In 2003, the Navy ousted 26 commanding officers, the highest count in modern history.
If they had an opportunity to vote on it, 67% of Americans say they would vote for a law that would allow gays and lesbians to serve openly in the U.S. military. The most opposition comes from conservative Republicans.
Gen. James Amos, the new commandant of the Marine Corps, said during a visit to San Diego that impending budget constraints will likely force him to make tough trade-offs between comforts for Marines on the home front and the weapons they need in battle.
U.S. intelligence agencies are working to track down an alarming report from inside North Korea revealing that the communist regime is secretly developing underwater nuclear torpedoes and mines.
Senior Navy leaders will be on hand Dec. 10 at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren Division for a test of the Office of Naval Research's experimental Electromagnetic Railgun, the service's effort to evolve surface ship weapons.