US defence shipbuilder Vigor Industrial has completed construction of the first Maneuver Support Vessel (Light) (MSV(L)) ordered by the US Army. Designed in partnership w ..
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On October 16, 1965 – 57 years ago yesterday – the United States Navy hospital ship USS Repose was recommissioned for service in the Vietnam War. For more than a decade the ship had been moored with the reserve fleet in Suisun Bay in northern California.
World War II/1940sThe ship was...
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National Hispanic Heritage MonthNational Hispanic Heritage Month is observed annually from September 15 to October 15. It celebrates “the histories, cultures and contributions of American citizens whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.”
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Geography influences the strategic choices of all countries, but Vietnam is an interesting case of a “swing” state in comparative grand-strategy terms. The co ..
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Screenshot of YouTube video from May 31, 2022 of the hull of Kitty Hawk arriving in the Port of Brownsville, Texas.
The Navy’s last conventional super carriers arrived in Brownsville, Texas this week after taking one last towed sail before getting scrapped.
The former USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) reached South Padre Island, near the Texas-Mexico border, on Tuesday as veterans of one of the Navy’s last conventional carriers looked on, according to a report in The Brownsville Herald.
The ship is now at...
https://news.usni.org/2022/06/01/former-carrier-kitty-hawk-arrives-in-brownsville-for-scrapping
For many years the Philippine Navy (PN) could provide only threadbare security for the nation’s 5,700 million square kilometres sea area and 7,600 islands. Its order of ..
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Reading this first-rate book soon after the United States of America withdrew ignominiously, after 20 wasted years, from Afghanistan, it was more than ever difficult to u ..
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The former USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) gets underway from its homeport at Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan in 2004. US Navy Photo
When James Melka first approached USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63), he had no idea the size of the aircraft carrier.
As the 17-year-old walked toward the pier in 1965, he could see the big gray ship, growing larger as he approached. It was “amazing” to walk onto the ship, then just four years into its service life, via its gangplank, Melka recalled.
At 1,047 feet, the former USS Kitty Hawk...
The US Navy and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) formally named the future guided missile destroyer USS Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee in a ceremony at Ingalls Shipbuilding ..
USS Wisconsin (BB-64) Firing a broadside to port with her 16/50 and 5/38 1991. Navy History and Heritage Command Photo
Key to the success of the first Gulf War was extensive use of reservists — like Seabees and intelligence — in the conflict, three experts from the Center for Naval Analyses said in a press briefing Monday.
Mark Geis, who was an analyst with II Marine Expeditionary Force in Desert Shield/Desert Storm and is now CNA executive vice president, said this total force idea was “a...