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Damage to USS Harry S Truman From Collision at Sea: Updated, With CO Firing

The commanding officer of the USS Harry S Truman was relieved of duty following the collision. The Navy released a first look at exterior damage to the USS Harry S Truman (CVN 75), following a collision at sea near Port Said, Egypt. The Truman collided with merchant vessel Besiktas-M on …

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Navy Seabees Rescue People Who Were Trapped Inside Submerged Car

by Petty Officer 1st Class James Hong These Navy Seabees jumped into action to help two motorists who were trapped inside a car that had plunged into muddy waters. Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 11 came to the aid of stranded motorists off of Interstate 10 East …

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‘I Should Have Worried About Dying’: That Time We Crashed the Nuclear Submarine

by Tim Patterson, The War HorseIn the moments immediately after the collision—after an alarm had sounded at 2 a.m.; after the boat had rocked violently to starboard, rolling 45 degrees and back again; after many of USS Philadelphia’s sailors were thrown from their beds; after a DVD player had flown …

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Islamic State Launches Deadly Attack on Military Base in Somalia

by Mohamed Olad Hassan Nearly 100 people were killed and up to 60 others wounded when members of the Islamic State terror group launched a deadly attack on a military base belonging to security forces from Somalia’s Puntland region, officials said Tuesday. At least 27 Puntland soldiers and more than 70 …

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Fort Bragg is Back, With a New Take on Name for Storied Army Post

Are name changes in the works for other military installations that were renamed under the Biden administration? Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on Monday night signed a memorandum renaming Fort Liberty in North Carolina to Fort Roland L. Bragg. The storied North Carolina post was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023, during an …

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WATCH: Marines Deploy Concertina Wire Along US Southern Border

Security operations along the U.S. southern border include setting up new physical barriers to curtail illegal border crossings. Here is a time lapse of setting up concertina wire near San Ysidro, California. These Marines with 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 1st Marine Division, worked along the southern border wall on Feb. …

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The Dangers of Being a Cartel Prison Snitch: ‘There’s Nothing Worse Than a Rat’

by Ivan / Borderland Beat There are only two inmates that everyone wants to kill: protected witnesses and child rapists, reveals a U.S. Marshal interviewed by the author. The list seems endless. All of them high-level members of the Sinaloa Cartel, who after having every imaginable luxury and in almost …

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‘Troops of the Hunter Class’: Creating Britain’s Legendary Commando Force

Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill in World War II wanted “specially trained troops of the hunter class, who can develop a reign of terror down these coasts [of occupied Europe], first of all on the butcher and bolt policy… leaving a trail of German corpses behind them.” This translated into …

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Moscow Denounces CIA ‘Cranberry Movies,’ Creates Video to Recruit American Spies

COMMENTARY by Susan Katz Keating The SVR did not respond to a request to explain what a cranberry movie is. Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service has taken a swipe at the Central Intelligence Agency’s spy recruitment videos, and has created its own counter-video, asking “true American patriots” to reach out and touch …

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