Новости за 26.05.2017

Greeted with a standing ovation, Vice President Mike Pence addressed the Naval Academy graduation Friday morning, where about 1,000 midshipmen became commissioned officers.

The 44 members of the U.S. Navy B-1 Band cracked the color barrier, leaving an impression on the Chapel Hill community during their two-year service on UNC's campus during World War II. On Saturday, the community will commemorate their contribution with a historical marker.

Two Chinese jets intercepted a Navy P-3 Orion on Wednesday, with one of the jets coming as close as 200 yards of the surveillance plane, a U.S. defense official confirmed.

Danny McBride has a special flair for playing obnoxious loudmouths - the kind of outwardly cocky yet inwardly tragic jerks that he’s brought indelibly to life in films like “The Foot Fist Way,” “Pineapple Express,” “This Is the End” and the HBO series “Eastbound & Down” and “Vice Principals.”

Masked gunmen ambushed a bus carrying Coptic Christians to a monastery south of Cairo on Friday, killing at least 28 people, and Egypt responded by launching airstrikes against what it said were militant training bases in Libya.

Forceful face-to-face talks this week with fellow world leaders left President Donald Trump "more knowledgeable" and with "evolving" views about the global climate accord he's threatened to abandon, a top White House official said Friday. Trump also was impressed by their arguments about how crucial U.S. leadership is in supporting international efforts.

A scandal involving the mortuary at Dover Air Force Base, the main point of entry for U.S. troops killed overseas, has rekindled with controversy over the care of astronaut John Glenn's body.

An Afghanistan veteran was stabbed to death in El Paso, according to court filings that recount a botched drug theft and the gruesome killing of a 23-year-old allegedly carried out by suspects connected to nearby Fort Bliss.

Bobby Montague and his brother, Wilson Montague, were close while growing up in a Raleigh family with 14 children. Bobby, the youngest, was heartbroken when Wilson left to join the U.S. Air Force in the 1940s, but Wilson wrote letters home every day. One day, though, there was no letter waiting for Bobby Mantague in the mailbox.

“The talent pool is getting harder and harder to pull from,” said Maj. Bryan Lewis, an Air Force spokesman. “We need America’s best talent from all corners of the U.S., and we’re competing with industry for that.”

Seven names were officially added to the USASOC Memorial Wall — an expanse that includes the names of more than 1,200 special operations soldiers who have been killed in combat since the Korean War.

The military on Friday will honor more than a dozen deceased members of a largely Native Alaskan citizen militia who protected the U.S. territory from the threat of Japanese invasion during World War II, bringing closure to their families for a service that went unpaid and unrecognized for decades.

In a dazzling display of their power, thousands of paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division showed a glimpse of their century-old history and their unique capabilities to rapidly deploy, seize airfields and destroy enemy targets.

Pakistan’s powerful military will probably push for an increase in defense spending ahead of Friday’s national budget as border clashes with neighboring India and Afghanistan mount.

A U.S. servicemember died Friday in northern Syria from injuries sustained during a vehicle rollover, the U.S.-led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria said in a statement.

The Navy’s unveiling of a mandatory new “fitness suit” met with a tepid response from sailors based in Japan on Friday.

Between the December funeral and April burial of former astronaut and Ohio Sen. John Glenn, an employee at the air base where the body was stored twice offered to let inspectors see Glenn's remains.

An Afghan official says Taliban fighters attacked an army camp in southern Kandahar province, killing at least 15 soldiers.

Masked gunmen riding in three SUVs opened fire Friday on a packed bus taking Coptic Christians on a visit to a monastery south of Egypt's capital, killing at least 28 people, including two little children, authorities said.

The U.S. Coast Guard has told Alaska city officials that one or two new ships could be stationed in Sitka.

The last batch of Ground Self-Defense Force troops departed South Sudan's capital of Juba on Thursday, where the about 350-member 11th Engineer Unit had been taking part in a U.N. peacekeeping operation.

Two U.S. Navy planes came in fast over a bridge in Dong Phong Thuong, North Vietnam, in June, 1965. Cloud cover forced them to descend extremely low. The enemy was waiting.

Research published Wednesday in National Geographic showed a slingshot used by the Romans some 1,900 years ago had nearly the same stopping power as a .44 magnum.

The family of World War II’s first Medal of Honor recipient is once again suing the U.S. government in an attempt to force a DNA test on an unknown set of remains buried in the Philippines that evidence suggests could belong to the celebrated war hero.

The Warthog is sitting pretty. Once on the brink of forced retirement, the A-10 attack plane with the ungainly shape and odd nickname has been given new life, spared by Air Force leaders who have reversed the Obama administration's view of the plane as an unaffordable extra in what had been a time of tight budgets.