Army to award Master Combat Badge to expert, combat-tested soldiers
The service will combine expert and combat achievements and is issuing mariner and mountaineering badges.
By Todd South
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U.S. Navy ship rescues Iranian mariners lost at sea
The mariners had been adrift in the Gulf of Oman for more than a week, according to the Navy.
31 charged in Coast Guard test-fixing scheme, prosecutors say
A U.S. Coast Guard employee took bribes to fix exams for merchant mariners to get licenses for positions on ships, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana said.
‘Despair’ spreading throughout the Military Sealift Command fleet over ‘draconian’ COVID-19 restrictions, unions warn
Roughly 5,000 mariners have been ordered to not leave their U.S. Military Sealift Command ships for nearly five months under the "Gangways Up" order.
Air Guardsmen spot ‘SOS’ written on Pacific island beach, leads to rescue of 3 missing mariners
Three men have been rescued from a tiny Pacific island after writing a giant SOS sign in the sand that was spotted from above, authorities say.
This famous Navy warship sank on New Year’s Eve
"Our little vessel was lost, and we, in months gone by, had learned to love her, felt a strange pang go through us as we remembered that never more might we tread her deck, or gather in her little cabin at evening."
By Olav Thulesius, Civil War Times Magazine