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The Navy separated 50 sailors in the past week for refusing to get vaccinated against COIVD-19, bringing the total of separated sailors to 320, according to a spokesman with the chief of naval personnel. The sailors were all within their first six years of services and had ranks ranging from seamen recruit to petty officer […]

Instead of calling for the permanent closure of the Red Hill Fuel facility, Hawaiis US Sen. Mazie Hirono says she is pushing to fund the de-fueling of the massive multi-million

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Marine Corps’ reshaping and retooling of its force with smaller units dispersed across islands and the littorals require reliable command and control systems and secured networks that work with both Marine Corps and Navy platforms, officials say. The success of maritime operations in contested environments against a peer enemy – […]

Massive arrangements in place for PFR, Milan 2022

SAN DIEGO, Cailf., – In the next five years the Navy wants to put smaller unmanned platforms in the fleet now while it waits for larger unmanned ships and aircraft to reach a level of reliability to fight with the crewed fleet in the 2030s, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told a group […]

The ship was the first to sail with Navy's new F-35C Lightning II jets and CMV-22 Ospreys

The Navy has 5,000 to 6,000 gaps for sailors at-sea billets, the service’s senior personnel officer told a House panel on Tuesday. The Navy currently has 145,000 billets at sea, Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John Nowell said during a House Armed Services subcommittee on military personnel hearing. Following the fatal collisions of 2017, […]

The Navy is investigating the unauthorized release of a video that shows the ramp strike of an F-35C Lightning II aboard USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). The footage comes from flight deck cameras aboard the carriers, Cmdr. Zach Harrell, spokesperson for commander, Naval Air Forces, told USNI News. The investigation into the crash is ongoing, according […]

Any analysis of the defence budget has to commence with some number-crunching. On February 1, the Finance Minister, while presenting the Union Budget for 2022-23, spelt out an overall allocation of Rs 5.25 lakh crore for defence, which will account for 13.3 per cent of the government’s planned

Over 2,600 fishermen in Rayong have been affected by the oil spill from the underwater pipeline owned by Star Petroleum Refining PCL (SPRC), which leaked over 50,000 litres of crude oil into the Gulf of Thailand, the province's Fisheries Office said on Thursday.