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  • HUNTER BIDEN’S Ex Claims He Spent His Money on Prostitutes and Drugs – Two Months After Navy...

    09/28/2019 7:29:57 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 51 replies
    The Gateway Pundit ^ | September 28, 2019 | Jim Hoft
    FULL TITLE: HUNTER BIDEN’S Ex Claims He Spent His Money on Prostitutes and Drugs – Two Months After Navy Dumped Him for Drugs He Was Put on Board of Burisma Holdings The Wall Street Journal reported in October of 2014 that the Vice President’s son, Hunter Biden, was released from the Navy for cocaine use. There was no stopping the Biden’s however. A couple months later, young Biden was on the Board of the largest gas and oil company in the Ukraine making $50,000 a year, an exorbitant amount for a Board member at any company. According to Business Insider...
  • 3 Navy sailors assigned to USS George H.W. Bush kill themselves in a week

    09/24/2019 11:17:00 AM PDT · by ransomnote · 41 replies
    nypost.com ^ | September 23, 2019 | Ben Feuerherd
    Three Navy sailors assigned to the USS George H.W. Bush aircraft carrier killed themselves last week in separate incidents, officials said Monday. The commanding officer of the carrier, which is docked at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Virginia, announced the deaths in a post on the ship’s Facebook page Monday. “It is with a heavy heart that I can confirm the loss of three Sailors last week in separate, unrelated incidents from apparent suicide. My heart is broken,” Capt. Sean Bailey wrote in the announcement. None of the deaths occurred on the carrier, which is docked at the shipyard for...
  • How Japan 'Pearl Harbored' Russia First (Decades Before World War II)

    09/23/2019 5:08:19 AM PDT · by NorseViking · 32 replies
    National Interest ^ | September 21, 2019 | Michael Peck
    A deadly surprise. Key point: Japan had a track record of surprise attacks. At midnight the Russian fleet slept. A few minutes after the clock struck 12 a.m. on February 9, 1904, Tsarist Russia's Pacific squadron peacefully bobbed at anchor at the Russian naval base nestled in the Manchurian town of Port Arthur. Ashore, the mood that night was festive as the garrison's army and naval officers availed themselves of refreshments at a birthday party for the admiral's wife. Soon their revelry was disturbed by flashes in the night and the dull thud of torpedoes slamming into metal hulls. Some...
  • Greek police arrest man accused of brutal killing of US Navy diver whose body was dumped on...

    09/21/2019 12:53:17 PM PDT · by Morgana · 21 replies
    Daily Mail UK ^ | SEPT. 21, 2019 | Darren Boyle
    FULL TITLE: Greek police arrest man accused of brutal killing of US Navy diver whose body was dumped on Beirut airport tarmac during 17-day hijacking of TWA flight 847 in 1985 A Lebanese man accused of involvement in the hijacking of a TWA plane and the murder of a US navy diver has been arrested in Greece, police said on Saturday. The 65-year-old was spotted by policemen in the island of Mykonos and detained on Thursday, a statement said. Greek authorities said there was a European arrest warrant issued by Germany for the hijacking as well as a kidnapping committed...
  • Navy confirms, but can't explain strange 'aerial' objects in 3 videos

    09/19/2019 2:48:33 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 51 replies
    UPI ^ | Sept. 19, 2019 / 1:08 PM | By Nicholas Sakelaris
    Sept. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Navy has acknowledged what appear to be unusual flying objects in footage from three separate military videos, saying they show "unidentified aerial phenomena" moving at high speeds. All three videos were recorded by F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets -- two in 2015 and one in 2004. The Navy refers to the sightings as UAP, not UFOs. "The three videos show incursions into our military training ranges by unidentified aerial phenomena," Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher said in an emailed statement. "The Navy has characterized the observed phenomena as 'unidentified.'" The 2004 footage, taken from an...
  • Royal Mail launches fleet of stamps featuring famous seafaring vessels to celebrate [tr]

    09/19/2019 7:27:49 AM PDT · by C19fan · 19 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | September 19, 2019 | Andrew Levy
    For centuries the Royal Navy defended Britain from invasion and turned this island nation into a global superpower. Now the Senior Service’s role in our history is being celebrated by the Royal Mail – even if the navy and our place in the world are rather less grand than they used to be. A set of eight stamps, covering 500 years, will commemorate some the navy’s key ships, starting with Henry VIII’s Mary Rose of 1511, and concluding with the giant aircraft carrier, the Queen Elizabeth.
  • UFO videos are footage of real 'unidentified' objects, US Navy acknowledges

    09/17/2019 10:18:39 PM PDT · by PghBaldy · 48 replies
    Fox News ^ | September 17 | Chris Ciaccia
    For the first time, the U.S. Navy has acknowledged that the three UFO videos that were released by former Blink-182 singer Tom DeLonge and published by The New York Times are of real "unidentified" objects. “The Navy considers the phenomena contained/depicted in those three videos as unidentified," Navy spokesman Joseph Gradisher told The Black Vault, a website dedicated to declassified government documents.
  • U.S. Sinks or Damages 6 Iran Ships in Persian Gulf Clashes (1988)

    09/16/2019 6:20:38 AM PDT · by central_va · 68 replies
    LA Times ^ | April 19th, 1988 | By JAMES GERSTENZANG
    WASHINGTON — U.S. warships and aircraft sank or heavily damaged six Iranian navy ships Monday as a major confrontation erupted in the Persian Gulf in the wake of the United States’ early morning strike against two Iranian oil platforms, the Reagan Administration said. U.S. and Iranian forces fired on each other in the broadest and most direct conflict yet, suddenly escalating what for months had been a war of nerves in the volatile waterway.
  • USS Franklin (CV-13) - What to do when everything is on fire

    09/12/2019 2:14:03 PM PDT · by NRx · 12 replies
    YouTube ^ | 09-11-2019 | Drachinifel
    A history of the attack on the USS Franklin and the heroic damage control efforts that saved the ship on 19 March, 1945. (Appx 1hr.)
  • Anchor from world’s first nuclear aircraft carrier, former USS Enterprise, finds new life

    09/11/2019 2:56:19 PM PDT · by csvset · 40 replies
    WTKR ^ | 11 September 2019 | Todd Corillo
    NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – A piece of the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier will serve another 25 years in the Navy. The former Enterprise carrier (CVN 65) was decommissioned in 2017 after several years of inactivation work was completed at Newport News Shipbuilding. Now one of the anchors from the Enterprise has been installed on another aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington. That ship just reached the midway point of its midlife Refueling and Complex Overhaul (RCOH) at Newport News Shipbuilding. During the overhaul process, shipbuilders inspecting the Washington found that one anchor on the carrier needed to be replaced....
  • First on CNN: Navy SEAL leaders fired after allegations of sexual assault and drinking among team

    09/06/2019 2:58:56 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 12 replies
    cnn.com ^ | September 6, 2019 | Ryan Browne and Barbara Starr
    Washington (CNN)The three senior leaders of a US Navy SEAL Team have been fired from their positions by the admiral overseeing the Navy's elite special operations forces "due to a loss of confidence that resulted from leadership failures," after members of their team were accused of serious discipline breaches, including an alleged sexual assault and drinking while deployed to Iraq. "Commander, Navy Special Warfare Command Read Adm. Collin Green relieved the three senior leaders of SEAL Team Seven from their positions Sept. 6.," US Navy Capt. Tamara Lawrence, a spokesperson for Naval Special Warfare Command, told CNN in a statement...
  • Facing a raft of retirements, BIW seeks 1,000 new hires (Bath Iron Works, Maine)

    09/03/2019 10:29:35 PM PDT · by 2ndDivisionVet · 13 replies
    The Times Record ^ | September 3, 2019 | Peter McGuire, The Portland Press Herald
    The Bath shipyard has contracts to build 11 new DDG-51 Arleigh Burke-class destroyers for the Navy over the next eight years. Bath Iron Works is known for building Navy warships from the ground up, but if it wants to stay in business it has to do the same to its workforce. The shipyard is in the midst of a massive hiring push to finish a backlog of ship work and reinforce its army of mechanics, many of whom are nearing retirement age. With Maine’s historically low 3 percent unemployment rate and a statewide skilled labor shortage, BIW can’t afford to...
  • AN ARCTIC SHIPWRECK ‘FROZEN IN TIME’ IS REVEALING NEW DETAILS OF A TRAGIC 1845 EXPEDITION

    09/01/2019 9:21:45 PM PDT · by Anoop · 28 replies
    archaeology-world ^ | AUGUST 29, 2019 | ARCHAEOLOGY WORLD TEAM
    Two vessels named “H. M.S. Terror” and “Erebus” were left in the Northwest Passage in 1845 but not before the crews suffered lead poison and botulism — and they cannibalized each other before the freezing to death. Now, a closer look is on one of those vessels. Parks Canada archaeologists recently used underwater drones to explore the wreck of the aptly named H.M.S. Terror. according to National Geographic. Discovered in 2016 off King William Island in the Canadian north, the ship and its contents have not yet been properly studied until now, 174 years after it sank.
  • Three ship commanders fired in two days, raising questions about Navy's 'zero-error [tr]

    08/26/2019 7:32:10 AM PDT · by C19fan · 25 replies
    Washington Examiner ^ | August 24, 2019 | Russ Read
    The second-in-command of a Navy submarine was fired this week, making him the third senior leader of a ship to be dismissed in two days. Lt. Cmdr. Jonathan Cebik was removed Monday from his position as executive officer of the USS Jimmy Carter over concerns regarding his personal judgment. Two other senior officers were removed for the same thing Tuesday. Such dismissals are by no means unusual, current and former Navy officers told the Washington Examiner. A 2004 Navy inspector general report found that 78 officers were removed for similar reasons between January 1999 and June 2004, an average of...
  • Navy Facing Billion-Dollar Tab, Years to Get China Lake Fully Operational After Quake

    08/22/2019 10:00:09 PM PDT · by robowombat · 9 replies
    USNI News ^ | August 21, 2019 1:11 PM | Gidget Fuentes
    Navy Facing Billion-Dollar Tab, Years to Get China Lake Fully Operational After Quake By: Gidget Fuentes August 21, 2019 1:11 PM A pair of strong earthquakes that struck the Navy’s key hub for air warfare research, development and testing six weeks ago handed the service a huge bill to replace, rebuild or repair damaged facilities. The Navy estimates more than $2 billion in repairs are needed to repair facilities damaged by a pair of earthquakes six weeks ago at its vital hub for air warfare research, development and testing. China Lake Naval Weapons Station encompasses 1.1 million acres north and...
  • Life inside the largest submarine ever built - and still being used (TR)

    08/15/2019 10:40:43 AM PDT · by DFG · 28 replies
    UK Daily Mail ^ | 08/15/2019 | Danyal Hussain
    Photos showing off the inside of a Russian nuclear submarine, the largest in active service in the world, have been released, with the huge ship being the inspiration behind the sub from the classic Sean Connery movie The Hunt for Red October. Images show crew members working on the Typhoon-class sub, also known as an Akula, a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine belonging to the Russian Navy. The sub appears to be the Dmitriy Donskoi, which entered into active service in 1982 and, after the decommissioning and scrapping of its Typhoon sister boats, became the largest submarine in the world. The...
  • US Navy to replace touchscreens with mechanical controls

    08/15/2019 11:24:55 AM PDT · by CedarDave · 117 replies
    Naval Technology ^ | August 12, 2019 | Harry Lye
    The US Navy is to replace touchscreen controls on destroyers with physical systems in 2020 after a report into the fatal 2017 USS John S McCain collision branded the controls ‘unnecessarily complex’. The investigation into the accident that resulted in the deaths of 10 sailors said that the complexity of the control system and a lack of training led to the collision. Bridge design on US naval vessels is largely uncontrolled by the military, with a lack of specific requirements leaving design decisions to shipbuilders. The step-back in technology will give sailors more tactile feedback and remove the ambiguity and...
  • China won't let U.S. Navy ship dock in Hong Kong amid trade tensions

    08/13/2019 12:35:22 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 49 replies
    HONG KONG — China has denied a request for a U.S. warship to visit Hong Kong, American officials said Tuesday. The incident came amid rising tensions between Beijing and Washington over tariffs and follows the U.S. last week imposing sanctions on China after it bought arms from Russia. The USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, had been due to make a port call in the former British colony of Hong Kong in October, diplomatic sources told Reuters. "The Chinese government did not approve a request for a U.S. port visit to Hong Kong by the USS Wasp," a spokeswoman for...
  • Navy Reverting DDGs Back to Physical Throttles, After Fleet Rejects Touchscreen Controls

    08/12/2019 6:20:55 AM PDT · by robowombat · 38 replies
    USNI News ^ | August 9, 2019 10:46 AM | Megan Eckstein
    Navy Reverting DDGs Back to Physical Throttles, After Fleet Rejects Touchscreen Controls By: Megan Eckstein August 9, 2019 10:46 AM SAN DIEGO – The Navy will begin reverting destroyers back to a physical throttle and traditional helm control system in the next 18 to 24 months, after the fleet overwhelmingly said they prefer mechanical controls to touchscreen systems in the aftermath of the fatal USS John S. McCain (DDG-56) collision. The investigation into the collision showed that a touchscreen system that was complex and that sailors had been poorly trained to use contributed to a loss of control of the...
  • Iran Has Hundreds of Naval Mines. U.S. Navy Minesweepers Find Old Dishwashers and Car Parts.

    08/06/2019 6:38:11 AM PDT · by C19fan · 13 replies
    Pro Publica ^ | August 5, 2019 | Robert Faturechi, Megan Rose and T. Christian Miller
    The U.S. Navy officer was eager to talk. He’d seen his ship, one of the Navy’s fleet of 11 minesweepers, sidelined by repairs and maintenance for more than 20 months. Once the ship, based in Japan, returned to action, its crew was only able to conduct its most essential training — how to identify and defuse underwater mines — for fewer than 10 days the entire next year. During those training missions, the officer said, the crew found it hard to trust the ship’s faulty navigation system: It ran on Windows 2000. The officer, hoping that by speaking out he...