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A Navy ship is stuck in port at Guantanamo Naval Station with a 100% vaccinated crew after several tested positive for exposure to COVID-19. This seemingly turns the whole point of a vaccine mandate on its head as it was suppose to assure that Navy ships and their crews would be able to deploy and complete their missions.
Recent developments point to how the USS Connecticut collided with a sea mount in October. It relates to how the Navy treated her commanding officer, executive officer and Chief of the Boat.
One fine sunny day, the USS Eldridge was in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard doing some tests when it suddenly vanished into the thin air. Then somehow a single man ended up perpetrating one of the greatest hoaxes in history.
The U.S. Navy has tested a high-energy laser in the Gulf of Aden putting China and Iran on notice that its hypersonic missile developments may have been a big waste of time and money.
Taiwan has never been a participant in the U.S. Navy’s largest military exercise, the Rim of the Pacific or RIMPAC. Aggression by Communist China has prompted Congress to tell the Department of Defense to include Taiwan in the next RIMPAC as a show of solidarity with the island nation.
Congress had to step in to assure Honorable discharges for service members who refused to get the vaccine citing religious and medical concerns. The DoD was preparing to court martial those who refused which amounted to them being convicted of a felony in a civilian court.
Syrian state media claims that Syrian Democratic Forces led by U.S. troops killed civilians and took hostages during a large airborne operation in al-Busayrah, Syria that was aimed at killing or capturing a known ISIS member.
More than just for decorative purposes, sailors have numerous classic tattoos that represent beliefs and emotions. Here are some of them.
Award-winning author Toby Harnden has written a riveting account of the very first days of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan that followed the September 11th Attacks in 2001. Harnden’s book, “First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA to Avenge 9/11,” relies extensively on personal interviews with the particpants of these early battles to overthrow Taliban control of Afghanistan.
SOFREP’s resident Football expert and Senior Editor Steve Balestrieri gives you the rundown on the 122nd Army-Navy football game.
The Commanding Officer of SEAL Team 8 has died from his injuries after a fall from a helicopter during a training exercise in Virginia according to Navy officials
A Date Which Will Live In Infamy “…December 7th, 1941. A date which will live in infamy. The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by air and naval forces of the empire of Japan.” These were the opening words of a speech by President Franklin Roosevelt when he appeared before Congress the […]
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