Richmond Kelly Turner and Holland M. Smith. As a rear admiral during the Central Pacific Campaign of 1943-1945, Turner commanded the navy’s amphibious force while Smith, holding the rank of major general and later lieutenant general, commanded the Marines. Both men were...
He reported to the Lake Erie in late 2016 and pinned on his current rank in May. RELATED Facebook video challenges Navy to update family on sailor missing at sea In an emotional Facebook video a woman said her son, Lt. j.g. Asante McCalla, was the Lake Erie sailor who disappeared Su...
USNI also reports the commander was Lt. Cmdr. Edward C. Lin, who served on some of the Navy's most sensitive intelligence gathering aircraft. USNI reports Lin was a Taiwanese national before his family moved to the U.S. One source confirms to CBS News the name of the officer is Lt. ...
Bramble managed to obtain a motorbike when a Canadian unit went through his beach and left it behind. After a new coat of paint, the motorbike then belonged to the Royal Navy, although it later crashed and was written off by the principal beachmaster of M Commando, Lt. Cmdr. Patrick ...
Lt. Cmdr. Johnson recalled Miller “blazing away as though he had fired one all his life.” Miller himself stated that “when the Japanese bombers attacked my ship at Pearl Harbor I forgot all about the fact that I and other Negroes can be only messmen in the Navy and are ...
* Toward the end of the trial, the presiding judge dismissed charges involving the second complainant, Lt. Pamela Castrucci, on the grounds that prosecutors had failed to present compelling evidence. Because of Greene’s rank, a panel of eight senior officers served as jurors--five rear admiral...
C.L. HANEY Los Angeles Lt. Cmdr. Haney is director of the Navy Office of Information, West.
By Lt. Cmdr. Marie Tillery A 1997 Battery Creek High School graduate and Beaufort native has been selected to advance to the rank of chief petty officer in the U.S. Navy aboard Naval Base Guam. Chief Petty Officer (select) Devin Saunders is a culinary specialist aboard USS Asheville. ...
One individual who stands out as the visionary in bringing the UDTs into the future was Lt. Cmdr. Douglas “Red Dog” Fane, who commanded the Atlantic Fleet UDTs during the postwar period. Fane did everything he could to keep UDT in the spotlight through stunts, demonstrations, experiments,...
Meanwhile, he was sat astride the bows of the gemini.When the Barrosa was up to speed, cmdr Lawson would take the waterskier's stance, the gemini would slow down and he would water-ski on the Indian Ocean.Everything was grand until he fell in the water. The Barrosa was 50,000 ...