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Author of the article: David Pugliese  •  Ottawa Citizen Publishing date: Jan 07, 2021  •  January 7, 2021  •  1 minute read FILE: Vice-Admiral Art McDonald. Photo by Andrew Vaughan /THE CANADIAN PRESS Article content Vice Admiral Art McDonald will take over as the Chief of the Defence Staff next Thursday. He will be promoted to full admiral for his new position. McDonald replaces Gen. Jon Vance who has been CDS since July 2015. Vance announced last year that he was retiring. W...

The USS Franklin was not a lucky ship. Heres What You Need to Remember: Throughout the saga of the ship’s return, however, Gehres, the disciplinarian, complained loudly about those crewmen who had left the ship during the disaster either consciously or unconsciously, men who had been blown overboard or had jumped as the flames approached them. “No order was issued to abandon ship,” he said. The USS Franklin was not a lucky ship. In March 1945, off the Japanese mainland, the Essex-class a...

The Story of the USS Murphys Long Service in Wartime The destroyer USS Murphy survived a collision on the open sea and served during four amphibious operations in the European Theater. Eighty miles off the coast of New Jersey and 280 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean lies the forward section of a World War II destroyer, where it came to rest more than 60 years ago. According to the USS  Murphy History Project, the warship’s tragic and triumphant story reads “like a chronicle of...

(FACEBOOK/MANILA BULLETIN) Despite the risks, DOST still continued its mission to harness science, technology, and innovation (STI) to provide various interventions and deliver services that will promote inclusive socio-growth and development to the country. DOST even helped placed the country to a much higher spot in the Global Innovation Index (GII) from its former rank of 100th six years ago. In terms of Research and Development (R&D), many of DOST’s programs still pushed on, even with the...

“Frenchy to Blue Jay—I have a possible sound contact,” squawked from USS Guadalcanal’s bridge intercom at 1110 hours. It meant that “Frenchy,” codename for the Destroyer Escort USS Chatelain, had located something during a sonar sweep. This appeared earlier and is being reposted due to reader interest. But Captain Daniel V. Gallery, commander of the escort carrier Guadalcanal (BlueJay) was not going to get excited, at least not yet. The sound contact could be a whale, a layer of ...

No bus missed, no ball dropped in vaccine procurement —Galvez By TED CORDERO, GMA News Published December 19, 2020 10:16am Updated December 19, 2020 10:59am Vaccine czar Carlito Galvez Jr. clarified that the Philippines did not miss an opportunity to secure doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Henz Austria/ Senate PRIB/File photo The Philippines did not miss an opportunity to secure doses of COVID-19 vaccines, National Task Force Against COVID-19 Chief Implementer and vaccine czar Carlito G...

18 December 2020 Mike Utley joined the Royal Navy in 1988 as a Warfare Officer, spending his early years on global operations at sea. Commands at various ranks include a Patrol Boat, two Offshore Patrol Vessels, the Type 23 frigate HMS PORTLAND and the amphibious aircraft carrier HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, during which he was awarded an Operational OBE for service in the wake of Typhoon Haiyan in The Philippines. He commanded NATO’s at sea high readiness Task Group in the Mediterranean then assumed com...

MEETING: Cllr Tom Wells, Roger Bevan, Angela Joyce and Cllr Beverley Nielsen at their meeting PROGRESS is being made in finding a solution to save a county college from closure. The management of Malvern Hills College has been holding regular meetings with a group of local councillors, academics and business figures to try and prevent the planned 2021 closure of the college, announced last month by WCG. Since then, chairman of the Malvern Hills College SOS Task Group, Beverley Nielsen and...

By LLANESCA T. PANTI, GMA News Published December 14, 2020 11:18am Updated December 14, 2020 11:35am A Sinovac Biotech LTD vaccine candidate for COVID-19 coronavirus was placed on display at the China International Fair for Trade in Services (CIFTIS) in Beijing on September 6, 2020. The Department of Health said on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020 that the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine is being evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. Noel Celis/AFP Chinese firm Sinovac’s COVID-19 vaccine is bei...

The Malvern Hills College SOS Task Group was set up by a number of local councillors and Beverley Nielsen, chair of the Malvern Hills College SOS Task Group, said:"Since the first meeting of our Task Group on Wednesday last week I have organised a number of meetings enabling myself and Cllr Tom Wells, as Task Group founder, to gain a 360 degree understanding of the situation prioritising the needs of our local community along with current challenges faced on the ground. "I have organised ...