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By SUSAN DU | Star Tribune | Published: March 15, 2021 MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (Tribune News Service) — A past commander of the American Legion Minneapolis Post blames a couple of rogue members for making off with a ships bell and wheel that ended up in Minnetonka High School, while the schools superintendent say theyll only take orders from the U.S. Navy to give them back. Meanwhile, the Navy wants nothing do with the custody dispute between Minneapolis and Minnetonka over the military artifact...

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Dredging the Savannah River is like a box of chocolates, say those who head up the task. You never know what you're gonna find. How about three cannons that may date to the American Revolution, an anchor and a likely piece of ship's timber?

Crews were dredging the river. Instead of muck, they pulled up three cannons and a mystery Dredging the Savannah River is like a box of chocolates, say those who head up the task. You never know what you’re gonna find. How about three cannons that may date to the American Revolution, an anchor and a likely piece of ship’s timber? The Army Corps of Engineers halted work in the vicinity after the late February discovery east of the Georgia city’s famous River Street. Then it sent out feeler...

Many medals are issued by the U.S. government to members of the Armed Forces. But what do the medals mean, how are they earned, and where do they rank in terms of prominence and prestige? Stacker takes a look at military medals and what they mean. TownNews.com Content Exchange Military medals and what they mean In 1787, Col. David Humphreys wrote: "Few inventions could be more happily calculated to diffuse the knowledge and preserve the memory of illustrious characters and splendid events, t...

Jimmy Carter embarked upon a top-secret and very successful spying mission. On Jan. 20, 2013, the Seawolf-class attack submarine USS Jimmy Carter left her homeport in Bangor, Washington. Less than two months later, the submarine appeared at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii for repairs. It was all quite mysterious. During her time at sea, we don’t know where Jimmy Carter was or what her crew of nearly 150 were precisely doing. The Seawolf-class is one of the most secretive weapons in America’s arsen...

What a drag. Top Gun was about the best of the best flitting around the skies, kept aloft by a lonely impulse of delight. This list of Historys Worst 5 Submarines catalogues the worst of the worst lumbering around in the briny deep. Such a vessel is a millstone dragging down the fortunes of its navy, its parent military, or the society that puts it to sea. Call it Bottom Gun. Now, its possible to rank hardware, including submersibles and their armament, purely by technical characteristics. Th...

By Captain William Bradley, USMC “If a unit is not well trained, its men know it. This fact adversely affects their confidence, especially if they anticipate there is a possibility of using that training in a critical situation. Every soldier likes to feel that he is playing on a winning team—he knows he can’t win if he isn’t well trained.” —Gen. Bruce C. Clarke, U.S. Army It is through training—through constant realistic and repetitious training of individuals and units—that mi...

Naval facilities, which include buildings and rooms, streets and other structures must be named after deceased Naval personnel except in rare circumstances, according to a October 2017 document from the Office of Chief of Naval Operations.

By CAITLIN DOORNBOS | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 4, 2021 YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan — The guided-missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta arrived at its new homeport here Thursday, bringing with it some of the Navy’s most advanced capabilities, according to Naval Forces Japan. Commissioned in San Diego in July 2017, the Rafael Peralta is one of the Navy’s newest destroyers and is outfitted with the Aegis Baseline 9 combat system. It can deploy with two MH-60 Seahawk helicopters a...