Новости за 12.01.2017

Capt. Rick Woolard, a retired Navy SEAL, is spearheading an effort to bring a SEAL heritage monument to Virginia Beach.

Chelsea Manning, the former U.S. Army soldier imprisoned for passing government documents to WikiLeaks, is on President Obama's short list for possible commutation, according to NBC News.

Navy health officials are investigating whether military personnel and families were exposed to hazardous health conditions at two northern Beaufort County military bases and a Marines housing development.

Midshipman 3rd Class Jonathan Dennler canoed through a dangerous storm to get help after several people were injured or killed at a Boy Scout campsite in July, 2016.

The world’s largest military aviation museum recorded a 19.4 percent jump in attendance since the June 8 opening of the new, privately funded $40.8 million hangar to end the year with 850,270 visitors.

The USS Ralph Johnson will be commissioned in Charleston, South Carolina, home of its Marine Corps namesake and recipient of the Medal of Honor.

Attorneys in a civil case against the Border Patrol over Arizona jails want a federal judge to hold the agency in contempt for failing to provide surveillance video showing the conditions in which immigrants are held.

With the clock ticking toward Inauguration Day, an Army judge has ordered the prison to send a letter from the alleged 9/11 mastermind to Barack Obama by Friday, a week before this commander in chief leaves office.

An internal evaluation of the VA Montana Health Care System saw its performance rating downgraded to one star for July, August and September, compared with two stars for the same period in 2015.

United Airlines plans to fly its last Boeing Co. 747 jumbo jet late this year, retiring its largest airplanes a year ahead of schedule as the iconic aircraft glides into the sunset.

A Marine will receive the nation’s second highest honor for valor and four other servicemembers will be awarded the military’s third highest combat decoration during a ceremony Friday to upgrade medals that they were previously awarded for actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Rep. Phil Roe, R-Tenn., introduced complementary legislation in the House and Senate on Tuesday to do away with an expiration date on the $10 billion Veterans Choice Program.

Departing Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said Wednesday that the Navy and the Marines continue to fly their aged fleet of aircraft, though he would not say whether he supports a push by President-elect Donald Trump to buy more Hornet fighter jets as a stopgap for long-awaited F-35s to replace them.

It was a bombshell story, emerging on the eve of Donald Trump's first news conference as president-elect: U.S. intelligence officials had presented Trump with unsubstantiated claims that Russia had amassed compromising personal and financial allegations about him.

Attorney General Bob Ferguson wants to create an Office of Military Legal Assistance to recruit, train and coordinate private and public attorneys to offer “pro bono” legal aid to military members, their families and veterans.

The 100th Maintenance Squadron at RAF Mildenhall has developed a simple money-saving procedure to prevent the corrosion of spare tools by coating them in candy-colored plastic.