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USAV Gen. Frank S. Besson departed for the Eastern Mediterranean on March 9 with equipment and supplies to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza.It was soon joined by four more Army watercraft carrying materials for the pier, followed by four more that will be deployed over the next month.The temporary pier is part of a US effort to “do more” to support Palestinians living in the war-torn enclave. At least a quarter of the population in the Gaza Strip is on the brink of famine, the UN Off…
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The US Air Force is continuing its mission to transform its existing fleet of workhorse transport planes into bombers.Recent photos show airmen with Special Operations Task Group Central and Air Forces Central on- and off-loading missile cradles in a training exercise involving an MC-130J and C-17s.
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The ex-USS John F. Kennedy, the retired first-in-class aircraft supercarrier, is headed to the scrapyard following a nearly 40-year service.Its legacy will live on in a new supercarrier and stories of the insane prank that once happened on its decks.
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The US Navy commissioned a new warship earlier this month, a massive floating sea base named after a Vietnam war hero.
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The US Navy has many unique traditions, such as painting sailors’ noses blue when operating in the Arctic Circle or putting “pollywog” sailors through a series of disgusting initiation rites while crossing the equator.Among the peculiar practices is launching a pair of boots off the flight deck of an aircraft carrier in a special ceremony known as a “boot shoot.”
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Combat artists in Norway captured Marines braving frigid temperatures and snow during military exercises known as Nordic Response 24.The NATO-led exercise, which will run from mid-February to mid-March, brings together thousands of Norwegian and allied troops from more than a dozen nations to practice defending NATO’s northern flank.Nordic Response is part of NATO’s Steadfast Defender 2024, the alliance’s largest military exercise since the Cold War.Though Russia was not mentioned by name in pub…
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Dry deck shelters aboard US military submarines play a vital role in naval operations, turning these lurking ship-hunters into motherships for Navy SEAL raids.Photos show the special operations that are facilitated by a dry deck shelter, like covertly launching Navy SEALs in submersible vehicles more efficiently.
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The Ukrainian navy has decimated the Russian Black Sea Fleet, taking out nearly a third of Russia’s vessels in less than two years.With no warships in their arsenal, Ukrainian forces have relied on unmanned maritime drones and long-range anti-ship missiles to hammer Russia’s fleet.Dmytro Pletenchuk, a spokesman for the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, said in a public statement that the Russian Navy had approximately 80 warships at the outset of the invasion, including large warships…
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The USS Lewis B. Puller is an expeditionary sea base designed to support a wide variety of military operations, including those involving Navy SEALs.The floating base is deployed to the Arabian Sea in response to ongoing attacks on commercial shipping vessels in the Red Sea by Houthi rebels, an Iranian-backed militant group in Yemen.The 760-foot-long ESB has a unique silhouette, with an open-sided hangar space underneath the ship’s sprawling flight deck that makes it resemble a floating parking…
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Illegal Iranian warheads intended for Houthi rebels in Yemen were seized in a deadly nighttime raid of a dhow in the Red Sea last week.Photos of the January 11 operation show the boat involved and the missile parts that were seized aboard it in an attempt to defeat the Houthi rebels’ missile attacks on shipping vessels.
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A storm surge on Saturday sent rogue waves in the south Pacific, swamping a US Army-Garrison facility on the Marshall Islands.US Army Garrison-Kwajalein Atoll and the US Space and Missile Defense Command’s Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site operate on Roi-Namur island, the second-largest island of the Kwajalein Atoll, about 2,000 miles from Hawaii.Photos show the extensive damage to the base’s facilities, home to about 120 people, by the sudden swells.
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