Andrew Dyer The San Diego Union-Tribune SANDIEGO — A preliminary hearing for the sailor charged with starting a fire that destroyed a $1 billion Navy warship in San Diego last year has been postponed until December, the Navy said Monday.…
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As deadline looms, Navy and Marine Corps prepare to separate troops who decline receiving the COVID-19 vaccine
Andrew Dyer The San Diego Union-Tribune San Diego-area sailors and Marines on active duty face administrative discharges from the military if they fail to meet the Navy department’s Nov. 28 coronavirus vaccination deadline, according to the latest orders issued by the services. Those orders, issued in separate messages this…
Navy chief accused of fatally shooting husband in Florida
A 34-year-old chief petty officer in the Florida Panhandle has been arrested after killing her husband in their garage- while the victim was on the phone with 911. Bree Kuhn, a CPO at NAS Pensacola, was charged with the first-degree…
Chinese CEO sentenced for ploy to ‘reverse engineer’ US military engines with help of U.S. Navy officer
Steve Patterson The Florida Times-Union (TNS) A Chinese business executive who wanted to copy American-made boat engines to sell to China’s Navy was sentenced Wednesday evening to 42 months in prison by a federal judge in Jacksonville. Ge Songtao, who was indicted in 2019 along with…
Blue Angels jet strikes bird during practice session over Maryland
The US Navy’s Blue Angels nearly suffered a catastrophe when one of the aircraft was struck by a bird during an aerial demonstration practice session.
US Navy says BLM activism for sailors is okay because it’s not a “politically partisan” issue
The US Navy is taking a “woke” double-standard approach to addressing politics and ideologies in uniform, discouraging certain forms of “extremist activities” while openly stating that it is okay to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
