Capt. Zaldy Valenzuela, former commanding officer of the U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility and Japan Regional Maintenance Center in Yokosuka, Japan, and his executive officer were relieved of command over the weekend. (U.S. Navy) The Navy fired both the commanding and executive office...
The crashkilled 10 U.S. sailorsand injured five more. It was one of several accidents in the region that raised concern over the safety and operational effectiveness of U.S. naval vessels. Some Navy officials have cited strains from frequent extended deployments, delayed maintenance and nea...
From the Age of Sail through to the Second World War, naval combat was done primarily in close quarters and with cannons. Naturally the technology improved quite a bit in those intervening centuries, but the idea was more or less the same: the ship with the most guns and most armor was ...
The naval base accommodates numerous installations including Orote Point/Apra Harbour (main base), Polaris Point (submarine operations facility), Naval Ordnance Annex (formerly Naval Magazine Guam), North Finegayan Site (formerly NCTS Guam), South Finegayan, Barrigada (formerly NCTS Barrigada), Ten...
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The previous contract was awarded in March to accomplish the drydocking and facility support requirements for a DSRA and includes dry-docking support, office spaces, warehousing, lay-down, security, crane support, utilities, galley services and other ship’s force support. USS Sampson, an Arleigh...
Naval equipment provider Fairbanks Morse received a contract to supply emergency diesel generator sets for the USS Enterprise and USS Doris Miller carriers in February 2019. Timken, a manufacturer of bearings and power transmission products, announced that its Philadelphia Gear division had secured a co...
The Trump administration appears to have begun flying undocumented immigrants from the US to a military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, said today that at least two deportation flights were "under way", bu...
A new port and a ship repair facility are likely to have been built just north of where US-funded facilities were demolished last year, a think tank says
1989 US Invasion of Panama United States of America vs Republic of Panama The construction of a short cut from the Pacific to the Atlantic Oceans was a pipe dream for much of the 19th century for both the British and Americans. If a canal existed, then trade would be substantially easier ...