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Vallejo Soldier Marcus A. Engesser Accounted for from WWII The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced May 14 that U.S. Army Pvt. 1st Class Marcus A. Engesser, 21, of Vallejo, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for Sept. 27, 2023. In late 1942, Engesser was a member of Company L, 31st Infantry Regiment in the Philippines during World War II, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the sur...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced last week that the remains of two World War II soldiers and two Korean War soldiers have been identified.

CHICAGO, Illinois. The military drone market will surge from $12 billion to $17 billion between 2022 and 2027 for a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 7.3%, according to a new report.

As a pilot in the 160th, Brady was the air mission commander for the operation. He and some of his fellow “Night Stalkers” felt the SEALs’ plan was too risky.

Today is the 17th anniversary of Operation Red Wings, which claimed the life of 19 U.S. service members in Afghanistan on June 28, 2005. The names of

I never knew the men who died on June 28th, 2005 as part of Operation Red Wings, but their loss still moved me greatly. At the time, it was the greatest one-day loss of life in the special operations community. It's hard to fathom that was 17 years ago today. Remembering the SEALs of Operation Red Wings seventeen years later.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday the Biden administration was concerned about the swell of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border.

US Navy to Send 2 Warships to Black Sea as Russia-Ukraine Tensions Simmer The United States will send two warships to the Black Sea next week, Turkey’s foreign ministry said on Friday, prompting Russia, which has boosted its military forces near Ukraine, to raise concerns about NATO powers that do not have a coast line in the region of increasing naval activity. “A notice was sent to us 15 days ago via diplomatic channels that two U.S. warships would pass to the Black Sea, in line with the ...

Two U.S. Navy warships operating in the Mideast have been affected by the coronavirus, according to spokesperson Cmdr. Rebecca Rebarich.

The 5th Fleet patrols the waterways of the Mideast. Its vessels often have tense encounters with Iran in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Gulf through which 20% of all oil traded worldwide passes. The Navy’s largest outbreak so far in the pandemic was aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, which had to be sidelined in Guam for nearly two months last year. More than 1,000 sailors tested positive and one died. Eventually all of the 4,800 crew membe...