Новости за 10.10.2015

Retired Army Brigadier General Joe E. Ramirez Jr., also Commandant of Texas A&M University's Corps of Cadets, said the leading reason behind ineligibility is applicants are overweight and generally unhealthy. In Texas, 73 percent of young adults can't serve. The national average is about 30 percent.

The officer charged with recommending how to deal with desertion and misconduct charges against Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has recommended that Bergdahl be spared both jail time and a punitive discharge, according to Bergdahl’s defense.

The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on Friday confirmed a plan by the United States to deploy warships near the artificial islands “illegally” built by China off the South China Sea.

Pilots flying the Navy's newest and most expensive jet say they successfully completed the flight portion of a second round of developmental testing Friday.

A promoter at the club introduced Spencer to the club DJ, who also is in the military. “They pulled him up onstage and introduced him to the crowd, and the crowd was cheering. After he got on stage, everybody wanted to talk to him.”

More than 600 U.S. and Philippine marines took part in the annual Amphibious Landing Exercise 2015 that concluded Friday in the island country.

China's Ministry of Transport held a completion ceremony Friday for the 164-foot-high Huayang and Chigua lighthouses on Huayang Reef in the Spratly Islands, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Jose Nieves Jr., 30, was arrested in May after investigators received reports he was having illegal sexual contact with two 17-year-old girls he met at schools where he was assigned to help potential military recruits.

CIA-backed rebels in Syria, who had begun to put serious pressure on President Bashar Assad's forces, are now under Russian bombardment with little prospect of rescue by their American patrons, U.S. officials say.

The military parade was expected to begin in the morning but was being delayed, apparently, because of heavy rain Friday night. Even by late morning, as a light rain fell, officials had not distributed a final schedule — which is unusual even in North Korea.

The U.S. sent Russia a draft proposal last week on what common languages, radio frequency channels and distances that U.S., coalition and Russian aircraft would abide by to avoid mishaps over Syrian airspace.

Friday's sea trials on board the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower were the second phase of testing for the F-35C Lightning II.

President Barack Obama is bringing words of comfort and sympathy to grieving families of victims of the shooting rampage in Roseburg, Oregon, muting his message about the need for new laws to stem gun violence as he visits an area where firearms are popular.

For the first time in years, United Launch Alliance, the joint venture between Lockheed Martin and Boeing, has to compete for national security satellite launches, for now with SpaceX.

The People’s Liberation Army Navy’s Zheng He is expected to visit Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam Oct. 12 through 16.

he latest draft United Nations resolution urging the United States to end its economic embargo on Cuba has appeared - and it points out President Barack Obama's commitment to end the policy.

At last week's football game against Air Force, the Naval Academy introduced its two newest mascots: Bill the Goat XXXV and Bill the Goat XXXVI.

Unrest that erupted several weeks ago at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site spread Friday to Gaza in the form of deadly border clashes with Palestinian protesters, as Israeli security forces struggled to contain a wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks against civilians and soldiers.