Hero comes home: Ensign Eugene Mandeberg, lost in WWII’s final aerial dogfight, to be buried in Livonia
Read full article: Hero comes home: Ensign Eugene Mandeberg, lost in WWII’s final aerial dogfight, to be buried in LivoniaEnsign Eugene Mandeberg, a U.S. Naval Aviator and Detroit native, will be laid to rest with full military honors in Livonia.
Ypsilanti man pleads guilty to making false statements on security clearance application with US Navy
Read full article: Ypsilanti man pleads guilty to making false statements on security clearance application with US NavyA Ypsilanti man has pleaded guilty to making several false statements in his security clearance application for a job working with the United States Navy overseas.
Navy judge to rule if sailor caused warship fire
Read full article: Navy judge to rule if sailor caused warship fireNo one disputes that the Navy shares blame for the loss of the USS Bonhomme Richard, the $1.2 billion amphibious assault ship that was consumed by flames in San Diego in July 2020 as it was undergoing maintenence.

Greek police arrest 1985 TWA hijacking subject
Read full article: Greek police arrest 1985 TWA hijacking subjectTed Quackenbush via Wikimedia Commons(CNN) - Greek police say they have arrested a 65-year-old Lebanese man on the island of Mykonos over the hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985 in which a US Navy officer was killed. The suspect, named by Lebanon's foreign ministry as Mohammad Saleh, was stopped on Thursday during a routine security check when his description matched those on a German warrant for his arrest, Greek police told CNN. "A charges d'affaires will head to Athens at 7am on Sunday to Syros island to meet with Saleh and to offer him consular assistance," the Ministry added. Greek police are cooperating with German authorities on the investigation, Chronopoulos said. Hijackers seized control of the Boeing 727 aircraft shortly after it took off from Athens, en route to Rome, on June 14, 1985.

US Navy confirms these UFO videos are real deal
Read full article: US Navy confirms these UFO videos are real dealThe US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. And while officials said they don't know what the objects are, they're not indulging any hints either. (CNN) - The US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. The objects seen in three clips of declassified military footage are "unidentified aerial phenomena," Navy spokesperson Joe Gradisher confirmed to CNN. The public clips capture just a fraction of the frequent incursions Navy training ranges see, he said.

Missing Navy boat found a year later, 3,300 miles from home
Read full article: Missing Navy boat found a year later, 3,300 miles from homeUS Navy boat found in Ireland nearly a year after it went missing during training operations in Norfolk, Virginia. (CNN) - Crew members from a ferry company in Ireland said they made an unexpected discovery with U.S. ties this week when they found a Navy boat floating in the Atlantic Ocean. Intrigued, the ferry company took to social media Tuesday with their discovery. So how did the boat survive over 3,300 miles across the Atlantic Ocean? This is the second time in 15 years that a boat has gone missing at sea, according to Boulay.

Bow of WWII sub found near Aleutian Islands
Read full article: Bow of WWII sub found near Aleutian IslandsNEW YORK - The USS Grunion went missing about a month after it departed on its first war patrol in 1942. It wasn't seen again until the sons of the Grunion's commanding officer began searching for it and found the wreckage in 2007 off the coast of the Aleutian Islands. In October 2018, the Lost 52 Project team returned to the site of the main wreck and found that the ship's bow had slid down a steep volcanic embankment, Taylor said. They put together a 3D scan of the bow and presented it to the family of USS Grunion's Commanding Officer Lt. Cmdr. The Navy says 52 US Pacific Fleet submarines were lost during World War II, and more than 3,500 submariners remain on "eternal patrol."

US Navy sails warship through contested Taiwan Straight
Read full article: US Navy sails warship through contested Taiwan Straight(CNN) - The US Navy sailed a warship through the Taiwan Strait Wednesday, a move that came on the same day Beijing warned that it would not rule out using force against self-governed Taiwan to block any move toward formal independence. The "USS Antietam conducted a routine Taiwan Strait transit July 24-25 (local time) in accordance with international law," Cdr. The US routinely sails through the Taiwan Strait, last doing so in May, but Chinese military forces view the strategic waterway separating China from Taiwan as a priority area and often shadow US vessels that sail through the area. According to the white paper, Taiwan's government under President Tsai Ing-wen is "intensifying hostility and confrontation and borrowing the strength of foreign influence." "To seek Taiwan independence will get nowhere and China never allow any part of its territory to be separated," he said.

Navy identifies sailor who went overboard in Persian Gulf
Read full article: Navy identifies sailor who went overboard in Persian Gulf(CNN) - The US Navy has identified a missing sailor who is believed to have fallen overboard from the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier last week while it was operating in the Arabian Sea. Saldana, of San Antonio, was assigned to the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 5, part of the Carrier Wing 7, assigned to the Lincoln Carrier strike group. "The search and rescue operations were concluded on July 19, after extensive attempts to locate the Sailor," the US Navy's Fifth Fleet which oversees operations in the region said in a statement. The USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group was deployed to the Middle East in May due to a "number of troubling and escalatory indications and warnings" from Iran, US national security adviser John Bolton said at the time. Prior to that deployment, the US Navy had been without an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf since early April, when the USS John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group departed to head to the Mediterranean for exercises with the Lincoln Carrier Strike Group, according to the US Naval Institute's Fleet and Marine Tracker.

Divers find sunken WWII Navy warship
Read full article: Divers find sunken WWII Navy warshipThe USS Eagle 2 (PE-2), pictured, was the identical sister ship to the USS Eagle 56 (PE-56). ATLANTIC OCEAN - The USS Eagle PE-56 was supporting Navy training exercises off the coast of Maine when an explosion tore it in half in April 1945. But in June 2018, a team of eight wreck divers working with the Smithsonian Channel finally located it about six miles from Maine's shore. The sinking was originally thought to be an accidentThe USS Eagle PE-56 was the last American warship sunk off the East Coast during World War II, according to the Smithsonian Channel. The reclassification made the USS Eagle PE-56 the Navy's largest single combat loss in New England waters.
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