WASHINGTON The Navy will deploy 260 sailors and two U.S. Naval Ships from the West Coast to help build a temporary seaport to deliver aid into war-torn Gaza, officials said Wednesday.
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Woods joined the Navy in 2020, attending Surface Combat Systems Training Command in Great Lakes, Ill., and San Diego after completing basic training. He reported to the Leyte Gulf in August 2021 …
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Laura Herzog, founder of Honor Our Fallen, shows her tattoo for Justin Swanson, at the memorial wall in Rosie the Riveter Park in Long Beach, Calif., on Dec. 15, 2021.
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Vice Adm. John Wade, commander of U.S. 3rd Fleet, and Vice Adm. Yoshihiro Goka, commander of Japan’s Escort Fleet, speak to reporters aboard the JS Kaga off Southern California, Nov. 6, 2024.
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A Marine Corps recruit gets his hair cut during receiving at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Feb. 7, 2022. (Tyler Abbott/U.S. Marine Corps)
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The overall well-being of U.S. sailors has continued to slowly improve, but levels of severe and extreme stress plague a third of the force, according to an annual Navy survey released Thursday.
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Suddenly, a message arrived from Bobby Ross, who was then the coach at Army and previously led Georgia Tech to the 1990 national title and the San Diego Chargers to Super Bowl XXIX in January 1995.
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The Marine Corps will have a larger role in a joint U.S.-Japan virtual exercise focused on defending remote Indo-Pacific islands, Japanese officials said.
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YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan The Navy’s newest berthing barge arrived recently at the home of the U.S. 7th Fleet to ease a shortage of living space for sailors whose ships are undergoing long …
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Rep. Sara Jacobs, D-Calif., a member of the quality-of-life panel, said 45,000 members of the military community in San Diego home to 110,000 active-duty troops visit a food bank every month.
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The USS San Diego steams off the coast of Marine Corps Base Hawaii, July 14, 2016 (Aaron Patterson/U.S. Marine Corps)
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A B-52 Stratofortress assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., arrives at Navy Support Facility Diego Garcia on March 22, 2024. (Staci Kasischke/U.S. Air Force)
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The road section has been off-limits to the public since 1964, after Interstate 40 was built. But officials who get their kicks from preserving history came up with the emblem redesign in 2019 to …
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Marines and sailors aboard San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Mesa Verde (LPD 19) salute the ship’s colors after returning from deployment with the 26th Marine Expeditionary …
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Holder was then sent back to San Diego to train on the B-24 Liberator bomber for hunting German submarines off the European coast. In the interview, he recalled contending with Messerschmitt …
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Sailors assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson participate in a physical readiness test in August 2022 at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego.
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San Diego, Subic, Singapore. The fuel will be loaded onto tanker ships and relocated to San Diego, Subic Bay in the Philippines, the Port of Singapore and a pair of fuel depots in Hawaii, the task …
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Seaman Alli Rambo carries a mattress off the USS Carl Vinson in San Diego on June 2, 2022. Sailors aboard Navy ships are still sleeping on uncomfortable mattresses, and that is one of the factors …
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Diego Garcia was a key logistical hub during America’s 20-year military intervention in Afghanistan. Some British and American observers are concerned that China would fill any vacuum created by …
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Capt. Justin Harts, the new commander of Destroyer Squadron 15, departs the change of command ceremony aboard the destroyer USS Higgins at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, on Nov. 17, 2023.
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