Новости за 19.02.2021

This sword, traveling through the Navy since 1941, is intended to encourage officers who rise from enlisted ranks to become critical staff officers supporting the service’s mission.

For Tahar Rahim, “The Mauritanian” was about prisons — at Guantanamo Bay, and of the mind. “It’s about the horrors he has been through, but also there’s a light inside of this character,” French-born Rahim says of playing longtime detainee and now bestselling author Mohamedou Ould Slahi. “The way he was able to go through this ... he became so wise to be able to not hold a grudge against anybody after all of this. It’s almost incredible for a human being.”

A lifetime subscription to CBS All-Access and limited-edition Star Trek collectibles are up for grabs. All players have to do is face a seemingly impossible task — overcome the famed Kobayashi Maru test.

The question of whether guns should be allowed in capitol buildings remains political, and states are going in opposite directions on the issue.

The Air Force and the family of Tech. Sgt. Michael W. Morris still don’t know what caused his death last month while quarantining at home alone, hours after calling to wish his youngest daughter a happy 5th birthday.

The escalating scandal that broke last week has already forced the resignations of Peru’s foreign and health ministers, among nearly 500 people who received so-called courtesy doses.

In the past year, rioters have breached the U.S. Capitol and armed protesters have forced their way into statehouses around the country. But the question of whether guns should be allowed in capitol buildings remains political, and states are going in opposite directions.

Jargon critics, crusaders for clarity and gatekeepers of grammar nudge a government predisposed to over-complication and incomprehensibility toward making sense. They stubbornly drag the bureaucracy along, using methods that are generally subtle and gentle but occasionally blunt.

The Afghan air force, a key factor in the government’s ability to keep Taliban insurgents at bay, won’t be able to fly effective combat missions within months if the few remaining allied advisers leave, a new report said.

Naval Criminal Investigative Service is working with Japanese police to investigate the death of a Navy civilian's child.

“Stronger Together” is the new command slogan, replacing the nearly 7-year-old guiding mantra of “Strong Europe,” the Army said.

A U.S. Air Force base in South Korea went on lockdown Friday evening after the first service member there tested positive for the coronavirus, the base commander said.

The Naval Air Station Corpus Christi community rallied to help sea turtles, which are prone to freezing in frigid waters.

Three Japanese contractors were indicted by a federal grand jury Tuesday on charges they defrauded the Navy in a 13-year scheme to illegally dump untreated ship wastewater they were hired to decontaminate, according to the U.S. Justice Department.

The commander of the largest U.S. military base in Tokyo has moved to assure residents they are safe after the body of a man who had been missing for 16 days was found in his own apartment building on the installation.

Junior golf is thriving at the home of U.S. Forces Japan in western Tokyo, as dozens of youngsters seek out alternatives to team sports and other activities that were shut down because of the coronavirus.

A Rapid City airman was found guilty Thursday of murdering his infant son after a four-day trial at Ellsworth Air Force Base.

A U.S. Air Force airman from Nevada, who was wanted on criminal sexual misconduct of an incapacitated victim in Michigan and military desertion, was arrested attempting to cross the border from Whatcom County into Canada last week.

Beale Air Force Base in a news release said that a "T-38 Talon assigned to the 9th Reconnaissance Wing experienced a gear-up landing" at Mather Airport. The base confirmed there were no injuries.

A House panel heard testimony Wednesday on legislation that would create a commission to examine the history of slavery in the U.S. as well as the discriminatory government policies that affected former slaves and their descendants.

The findings by the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the University of Portsmouth in England counter decades of understanding by the military and Department of Veterans Affairs about potential causes for a host of ailments that collectively are now known as Gulf War illness.

The Israeli army on Thursday said it has returned two shepherds who crossed into Israeli territory back to Syria, a development that an Israeli official said was part of a prisoner swap that Syria had reported the previous day.

Seven soldiers have been chosen to present their ideas next week as part of the Army’s 18th Airborne Corps’ attempt to find solutions for eliminating sexual assault and harassment in the service, the corps announced Thursday.

A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on Mars.

The Blaine Police Department booked Ian Mitchell Wilson, 20, into Whatcom County Jail Thursday, Feb. 11, on a fugitive from justice warrant, and jail records show he is being held in lieu of $200,000 bail.