This week, you’re going to see something you don’t normally see around here: U.S. Navy Submarine Sailors. Sailors from the Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Alaska (SSBN 732), homeported in Kings Bay, GA, are visiting their submarine’s namesake state. Seeing a submariner is a rare and privileged opportunity. Just eight percent of Navy personnel are submariners. […]
PENTAGON — The U.S. military said Thursday it struck three radar sites in Yemen in response to missile launches from territory controlled by Houthi rebels that targeted a U.S. Navy destroyer. A Pentagon statement said the destroyer USS Nitze launched Tomahawk cruise missiles at radar sites along Yemen’s Red Sea coast, north of the Bab-el-Mandeb strait. […]
The Department of Justice announced Thursday, the guilty pleas of owner/CEO of Glenn Defense Marine Asia, 51-year-old Leonard Francis, his company, and 47-year-old U.S. Navy Captain Daniel Dusek on various Corruption Conspiracy charges. Francis, the CEO of GDMA, pled guilty to bribery and fraud charges in federal court and admitted to being involved in a […]
LOS ANGELES — A federal jury has convicted the former CEO of the Simi Valley-based battery distributor Powerline Inc. of defrauding the government by selling more than $2.6 million in cheap, knock-off batteries to the U.S. Department of Defense. Didier De Nier, 63, who lived in Simi Valley until he fled the U.S. nearly two […]