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Chuck Chaldekas plans to meet with the director of the Vietnam Memorial to seek support for maintenance of the Vietnam Unit Memorial Monument on Amphibious Base Coronado.

The threat of hybrid warfare increases hospital ships' need for defense measures, a new paper argues.

The threat of hybrid warfare increases hospital ships' need for defense measures, a new paper argues.

The threat of hybrid warfare increases hospital ships' need for defense measures, a new paper argues.

Long before Ukraine and Russia were using Switchblades and Shaheds against each other, the US Navy was using TDR-1 drones to attack Japanese targets.

Image: Caladan Oceanic The main section of the USS Johnston—sunk 77 years ago during the Battle of Leyte Gulf—has been discovered off the Philippine coast. Resting over 4 miles beneath the surface, it’s now the deepest shipwreck to ever be investigated. Advertisement Johnston (DD-557)—a 376-foot-long (115-meter) Fletcher-class destroyer—was discovered in the Philippine Trench near Samar Island at a depth of 21,180 feet (6,456 meters). The ship sank on October 25, 1944, during the Ba...

Share this article “British gold and promises of personal freedom served as futile incentives among the Negroes of the American Navy; for them, the proud consciousness of duty well done served as a constant monitor and nerved their strong black arms when thundering shot and shell menaced the future of the country; and, although African slavery was still a recognized legal institution and constituted the basic fabric of the great food productive industry of the nation, it was the Negro’s tru...