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Aviation Radioman Third Class Petty Officer Peter Smith was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by the Secretary of the Navy on August 16, 2023. During his 11 months with VT-28 during WWII, he was part of more than 150 missions in the Pacific Theater on a TBF Avenger. ....
SAN DIEGO Almost 15 years ago, the U.S. Navy christened the first of a new class of warship designed to fight the Global War on Terror. The so-called littoral combat ships would be fast and agile, operating close to shore against missile-firing boats and small submarines. Today, the Navy has a new mission or rather, has returned to its old mission, facing off against more capable warships deployed by China and Russia. And the service is still trying to figure out what to do with its $16 billion LCS fleet. It doesn’t help that some of the ships have suffered embarrassing breakdowns in mid-ocean. Or that the Navy discovered recently that the transmission in one of the two classes of ships was defective and needed to be redesigned. And while Congress has eagerly funded construction of the two very different classes of ships, it cut funding from the mission modules needed by the ships to fulfill their missions. ....