by WorldTribune Staff, April 20, 2022 Three U.S. Navy sailors have died on the USS George Washington aircraft carrier in less than a week. Two of the sailors, both age 23, have been identified. They are Interior Communications Electrician 3rd Class Natasha Huffman, who died on April 10, and Retail Services Specialist 3rd Class Mika’il […]
Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, November 8, 2021 It seems only fitting that a woke military in which the top brass views climate change as its top threat would assign a transgender veteran to christen a new U.S. Navy ship named after a sexual predator. The replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk was christened on Nov. 7 […]
by WorldTribune Staff, November 1, 2020 An American take hostage in Nigeria was rescued in a daring operation by SEAL Team 6, Pentagon officials announced on Saturday. Six militants were killed and one captured as SEAL Team 6 secured the freedom of Philipe Nathan Walton. President Donald Trump tweeted on Sunday: “Last night, our Country’s […]
by WorldTribune Staff, June 5, 2019 The U.S. Navy this year sent out new classified guidance for how its pilots report what the Pentagon calls “unexplained aerial phenomena,” or unidentified flying objects. The new guidance was an update of instructions that went out to the fleet in 2015 after pilots participating in training maneuvers off […]
by WorldTribune Staff, May 21, 2019 “Situational awareness” is the military term for having complete understanding of the environment in which you are operating. “During a military mission, whether in peace or in war, if a pilot or soldier can’t identify an object, they have a serious problem: How should they react, without knowing if […]
by WorldTribune Staff, October 26, 2018 The crew of a U.S. destroyer has seized 2,500 AK -47 rifles and other weapons from a vessel off the coast of Yemen. U.S. authorities on Oct. 25 said they invited UN inspectors to determine whether the weapons provide proof that Iran is smuggling arms to Houthi rebels in […]
by WorldTribune Staff, July 9, 2018 The United States on July 7 sent two warships through the Taiwan Strait in a move that follows a series of Chinese military drills around Taiwan that have stoked tensions between Beijing and Taipei. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the guided-missile destroyers USS Mustin and […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The 10 sailors detained by Iran were on two U.S. vessels that entered Iranian waters due to a “navigational error,” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Jan. 14. “They did not report this navigational error at the time. It may be that they were trying to sort it out at the time […]
Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — A U.S. company has presented a maritime solution to Iran’s threat to the Gulf. Juliet Marine Systems, based in Portsmouth, N.H., has been briefing major defense contractors and governments on its new fast attack craft. Juliet asserted that the platform, called Ghost, was designed to protect the Iranian-dominated Strait of […]
