A legendary Reconnaissance Marine who saved his nine-man team during an ambush in South Vietnam is one step closer to receiving the Medal of Honor.
The Senate has passed a bill that would waive the award’s time requirement for retired Maj. James Capers Jr., who was shot twice and suffered 17 shrapnel wounds and other injuries during the April 1967 ambush. Not only did Capers lead his team to safety, but he twice tried to get out of the helicopter carrying the rest of his teammates so that it would be light enough to take off, and had to be pulled back inside by his men.
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The United States Navy’s submarine service is easily the most powerful ever fielded in the history of submarine warfare.
Consisting of Los Angeles, Seawolf, Virginia, and Ohio-class boats, this all-nuclear force is silent and deadly, prowling the world’s waterways without anybody the wiser.
Related: Why America’s World War II torpedoes were horribleWhile the unlimited range and the quiet, very stealthy nature of these combat vessels makes them incredibly dangerous, their armament plays the biggest part in making them the most lethal killing machines traversing the oceans today.
More than 80 years ago, the USS Yorktown took a pair of torpedo hits from the Japanese submarine I-168 and slipped to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. She came to rest nearly three miles down, taking 141 of her crew with her.
The rest of her story—the Coral Sea, the improbable 72-hour repair at Pearl Harbor, the strikes that sent three Japanese carriers to the bottom at Midway—is well documented. What wasn’t as well-documented was the massive mural painted somewhere deep in her guts, a mural that depicted the ship’s entire story.
A US submarine, far from the Iranian theater, sank an Iranian ship with a torpedo, the first since WWII.
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A US submarine, far from the Iranian theater, sank an Iranian ship with a torpedo, the first since WWII.
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US-based drone manufacturer Neros Technologies has set up a UK subsidiary and plans to invest up to £10m ($13m) over five years.
Ecuadorian and U.S. forces have started a joint operation against drug trafficking groups in the South American country, U.S. Southern Command said Tuesday evening.
The operations inside Ecuador are targeting “narco-terrorist” groups that are designated terrorist organizations, SOUTHCOM said. The new mission is the first one announced by the U.S. military since troops returned to a former base in Ecuador this winter and the first ground operation in South America since the raid to capture Venezuela’s president, Nicolas Maduro.
L Todd Wood and Pete Blaber lay out the continuing lies from lying psychopaths on the Ukraine War.
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In October 1859, a small town at the junction of two rivers became the focal point of one of the most dramatic and consequential events in American history.
John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia, was brief, violent, and ultimately unsuccessful. Yet its impact was enormous. The raid deepened sectional divisions between North and South, heightened fears of slave rebellion, and accelerated the nation’s slide toward civil war.
Watch live as U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Dan Caine hold a press conference on U.S.–Israel military attack on Iran.
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