US Coast Guard to add heavy icebreaker amid shipbuilding overhaul
The new vessel will be the first heavy polar icebreaker to be built in the U.S. in about five decades.
By Zita Ballinger Fletcher
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Coast Guardsman’s wife arrested for expired visa after security check
The spouse's name was flagged during a security screening when the couple sought to get her base access at Naval Air Station Key West, officials said.
By Lolita C. Baldor, The Associated Press
VA disputes GOP claim that money for vets is going to migrants instead
Republican lawmakers have accused the department of using funding and resources to help with immigration work at the expense of veterans services.
Inside the US Army’s failed nuclear ice lair in Cold War Greenland
While the U.S. didn’t get to act out its Bond villain lair fantasies, it did further scientific understandings of the world around us.
Jared Leto to sell ‘Twentynine Palms’ eye cream for $97
Twentynine Palms. No longer just a Marine base where summer temperatures routinely creep into the 100s.
Navy stands up runway, encampment on massive Arctic ice sheet
The runway and encampment were set up to support Ice Exercise 2022.
By Diana Stancy
‘Climate change is going to cost us’: How the US military is preparing for harsher environments
Climate change is no longer a problem for future defense leaders — it is an immediate challenge.
By Andrew Eversden
That time the Navy spent a million dollars on an ice cream barge
In 1945, the Navy built an ice cream ship.
By Caitlin O'Brien
U.S. Pacific Fleet admiral’s barge went to the scrapyard following 2019 fire
The vessel had been used to ferry high-level visitors for decades.
How Navy divers are preparing for the Arctic battlefront
Diving beneath 18 inches of ice presents its own hazards and challenges.
NORTHCOM commander says US needs Arctic early warning system
Russia has deployed thousands of troops to the Arctic region for training and is expected to field 13 polar icebreakers by 2035. The U.S. has only one working heavy polar icebreaker.
By Shawn Snow
Illegal immigrant charged in hit-and-run death of Marine Vietnam veteran
Detectives allege the veteran was struck by the front of the Toyota and dragged more than 50 feet.
By J.D. Simkins