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A Holyoke sailor, one of 98 men of the battleship USS California killed in the Pearl Harbor attack Dec. 7, 1941, is returning having been identified through modern DNA technology.
Although the Virginia-class vessels are no longer in active service with the U.S. Navy today, the service still requires the function of cruisers.
From the blog of Dan Zamansky at The Times of Israel
After announcing a "strategic pause" in buying more amphibious warfare ships, the Navy looks to have reversed course, but questions remain.
The Navy is now more than 80 ships short of the latest estimate of what the sea service thinks it needs to fulfill the Biden administration’s national security strategy. The Battle Force Ship Assessment and Requirement, a congressionally-mandated report, requires 381 ships, up from 373 in the 2022 report, the first year it was released. […]