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Navy judge to rule if sailor caused warship fire
Read full article: Navy judge to rule if sailor caused warship fireNo one disputes that the Navy shares blame for the loss of the USS Bonhomme Richard, the $1.2 billion amphibious assault ship that was consumed by flames in San Diego in July 2020 as it was undergoing maintenence.
US Navy Blue Angels to headline the 2021 Fort Lauderdale Air Show
Read full article: US Navy Blue Angels to headline the 2021 Fort Lauderdale Air ShowThe 2021 Fort Lauderdale Air Show returns May 8 through May 9 at Fort Lauderdale Beach, where guests will be able to witness the U.S. Navy Blue Angels’ impressive performance from the shore, among other performances by the F-16 Viper Demo Team and more.
Coronavirus: One of President Trump’s personal valets tests positive
Read full article: Coronavirus: One of President Trump’s personal valets tests positiveCNN is reporting that a member of the US Navy who serves as one of President Donald Trump's personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus. The White House confirmed the report saying that one of the President's staffers had tested positive. “We were recently notified by the White House Medical Unit that a member of the United States Military, who works on the White House campus, has tested positive for Coronavirus,” deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley said in a statement to the cable news network. “The President and the Vice President have since tested negative for the virus and they remain in great health.”The valets are members of an elite military unit dedicated to the White House and often work close to the President and first family. The person who tested positive was not identified.
US Navy dropping live bombs in middle of Florida
Read full article: US Navy dropping live bombs in middle of FloridaUS Navy dropping live bombs in middle of Florida – If you hear loud booming sounds, don’t worry it’s just the Navy dropping bombs in the middle of Florida. The Naval Air Station in Jacksonville is conducting live and inert bomb training at Pinecastle Range Complex in the Ocala National Forest. The range complex is about 2 miles west of the Camp Ocala campgrounds and near several hiking trails. It's common for F-18 jet fighters and other Navy aircraft to drop bombs in the middle of the range. Anyone who has a noise complaint is asked to call the Fleet Area Control and Surveillance Facility in Jacksonville at 800-874-5059.
WWII submarine missing for 75 years has been found
Read full article: WWII submarine missing for 75 years has been foundUS Navy [Public domain](CNN) - It's been 75 years since the USS Grayback went missing with 80 sailors aboard. Now, an organization that searches for sunken World War II submarines has solved the mystery of where it went down. The Grayback went missing in 1944On January 28, 1944, the Grayback set sail from Pearl Harbor for the East China Sea for its 10th combat patrol. About a month later, the submarine reported sinking two Japanese cargo ships on February 19. Though the Grayback was scheduled to arrive in Midway on March 7, more than three weeks passed without sight of the submarine.
Greek police arrest 1985 TWA hijacking subject
Read full article: Greek police arrest 1985 TWA hijacking subjectTed Quackenbush via Wikimedia Commons(CNN) - Greek police arrested a 65-year-old Lebanese man in Mykonos on Thursday in connection with the hijacking of a Trans World Airlines (TWA) Flight 847 in 1985 in which a US Navy officer was killed, Greek police told CNN. The suspect, named by Lebanon's foreign ministry as Mohammad Saleh, was stopped during a routine security check when his description matched those on a German warrant for his arrest, police said. "The suspect denies any involvement in the hijacking," police spokesman Theodoros Chronopoulos told CNN. Greek police are cooperating with German authorities on the investigation, Chronopoulos said. Hijackers seized control of the Boeing 727 aircraft shortly after it took off from Athens, en route to Rome, on June 14, 1985.
US Navy confirms these UFO videos are real deal
Read full article: US Navy confirms these UFO videos are real dealThe US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. And while officials said they don't know what the objects are, they're not indulging any hints either. (CNN) - The US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. The objects seen in three clips of declassified military footage are "unidentified aerial phenomena," Navy spokesperson Joe Gradisher confirmed to CNN. The public clips capture just a fraction of the frequent incursions Navy training ranges see, he said.
Missing Navy boat found a year later, 3,300 miles from home
Read full article: Missing Navy boat found a year later, 3,300 miles from homeUS Navy boat found in Ireland nearly a year after it went missing during training operations in Norfolk, Virginia. (CNN) - Crew members from a ferry company in Ireland said they made an unexpected discovery with U.S. ties this week when they found a Navy boat floating in the Atlantic Ocean. Intrigued, the ferry company took to social media Tuesday with their discovery. So how did the boat survive over 3,300 miles across the Atlantic Ocean? This is the second time in 15 years that a boat has gone missing at sea, according to Boulay.
Bow of WWII sub found near Aleutian Islands
Read full article: Bow of WWII sub found near Aleutian IslandsNEW YORK - The USS Grunion went missing about a month after it departed on its first war patrol in 1942. It wasn't seen again until the sons of the Grunion's commanding officer began searching for it and found the wreckage in 2007 off the coast of the Aleutian Islands. In October 2018, the Lost 52 Project team returned to the site of the main wreck and found that the ship's bow had slid down a steep volcanic embankment, Taylor said. They put together a 3D scan of the bow and presented it to the family of USS Grunion's Commanding Officer Lt. Cmdr. The Navy says 52 US Pacific Fleet submarines were lost during World War II, and more than 3,500 submariners remain on "eternal patrol."
Navy identifies sailor who went overboard in Persian Gulf
Read full article: Navy identifies sailor who went overboard in Persian Gulf(CNN) - The US Navy has identified a missing sailor who is believed to have fallen overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier last week while it was operating in the Arabian Sea. Saldana, of San Antonio, was assigned to the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5, part of the Carrier Wing 7, assigned to the Lincoln Carrier strike group. "The search and rescue operations were concluded on July 19, after extensive attempts to locate the Sailor," the US Navy's Fifth Fleet which oversees operations in the region said in a statement. The USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group was deployed to the Middle East in May due to a "number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" from Iran, US national security adviser John Bolton said at the time. Prior to that deployment, the US Navy had been without an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf since early April, when the USS John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group departed to head to the Mediterranean for exercises with the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, according to the US Naval Institute's Fleet and Marine Tracker.
Divers find sunken WWII Navy warship
Read full article: Divers find sunken WWII Navy warshipThe USS Eagle 2 (PE-2), pictured, was the identical sister ship to the USS Eagle 56 (PE-56). ATLANTIC OCEAN - The USS Eagle PE-56 was supporting Navy training exercises off the coast of Maine when an explosion tore it in half in April 1945. But in June 2018, a team of eight wreck divers working with the Smithsonian Channel finally located it about six miles from Maine's shore. The sinking was originally thought to be an accidentThe USS Eagle PE-56 was the last American warship sunk off the East Coast during World War II, according to the Smithsonian Channel. The reclassification made the USS Eagle PE-56 the Navy's largest single combat loss in New England waters.