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The Wasp Amphibious Ready Group deploys to Europe
The group will start out its deployment by taking part in the multinational BALTOPS 24 exercise in the Baltic region.
Even before US ships moved through the Taiwan Strait, the region was simmering
In the South China Sea, Beijing is pitted against smaller neighbors in multiple disputes over islands, coral reefs and lagoons in waters crucial for global commerce and rich in fish and potential oil and gas reserves.
Another busy week in the South China Sea
Political tensions rose in the South China Sea last week before Monday's FONOP by two Navy guided-missile destroyers.
The US Navy is back in the Black Sea, sending a message to Moscow
It's the first U.S. warship to enter the Black Sea since the Russians seized three Ukrainian boats in the Kerch Strait in November.
By Mark D. Faram
Sailors needed for awesome degree completion program — do you qualify?
Sailors who hold ratings as cryptologic and information systems technicians, plus intelligence specialists, can apply —regardless of pay grade — as long as they’ve accrued enough academic credits to finish their degrees during an intensive 12 months of study.
By Mark D. Faram
Here’s why the Marine Corps is strapping LAVs to the flight deck
LAVs aboard the 31st MEU engaged surface targets with the M242 Bushmaster 25 mm chain gun while strapped to the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship Wasp.
Walloped by rough seas off Iceland, warship Gunston Hall heads home
Damage sustained to the ship's well deck and landing craft during rough seas late last month was fixed in Iceland before the ship headed back to Virginia, Navy officials said.
In the last hours of World War I, a terrible toll
Thousands of troops were dying even as the clock ticked down to the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
Amphibious warship Ashland, Marines, toil to save Tinian
The amphibious dock landing ship Ashland is ferrying heavy equipment to Tinian, part of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, in the wake of the devastating Super Typhoon Yutu.
By Carl Prine
Military forces from Hawaii to Guam pitch in to save Saipan, Tinian in the wake of super typhoon
Tinian was battered by sustained winds clocked at 178 miles per hour, making it the most powerful cyclone on record to ever wallop U.S. soil, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
By Carl Prine