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It was a brazen act of espionage. An American wiretap on a Soviet underwater cable during the Cold War reaped untold amounts of information for a nearly a decade. The intelligence it gathered helped the U.S. navigate the negotiation of the famed Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II (SALT II) Treaty of 1979. It all came crashing down when a former NSA agent, drowning in debt, decided to trade national secrets to the Soviets for a quick payday.

Decades after their fathers served in Vietnam and were exposed to Agent Orange, children living with disabilities are fighting for benefits that VA provides to children of women who served in the same war

‘Seats are not being filled’: Veterans say VA is not supporting stakeholder advisory committees Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2026-10-27/veterans-advisory-committees-va-23278062.html Source - Stars and Stripes

NORFOLK, Va. — The Navy’s inspector general is investigating allegations that practices at the Navy brig in Chesapeake have infringed on service members’ legal rights, according to sources familiar with the investigation. A group of attorneys representing current and former clients at the brig filed an investigative complaint with the Navy’s inspector general, alleging violations of clients’ Sixth Amendment right to counsel and illegal pretrial punishment through the systemic overuse of maximum custody — the Navy’s term for solitary confinement.

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China is building more submarines, of more classes, than any other country. It has several brand-new ambitious design readying for series production and is forging ahead in the uncrewed space. But this unique trimaran design appears the strangest of them all.

The USS Spruance has broken records for the longest destroyer deployment since the end of World War II. The Navy ship has been deployed for more than 11 months after hitting the 339-day mark on Sunday, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune, citing the service.

The Navy saw the most Class A aviation and afloat mishaps in at least in a decade, according to Fiscal Year 2026 data recently released by the Navy Safety Command.

Navy identifies NAS Pensacola sailors killed in car crash

A bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers, led by U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), has formally petitioned the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) to classify Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM) as a presumptive service-connected disability. IBM is a progressive, incurable neuromuscular condition that shares significant clinical and pathological characteristics with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). Despite data from The Myositis Association indicating that IBM is more than ten times as prevalent among military veterans compared to civilians—roughly 189 cases per million veterans versus 15 per million civilians—the VA currently lacks a presumptive pathway for IBM claims. Consequently, affected veterans face a lengthy individualized claims process that carries an estimated 82% denial rate, forcing many into prolonged appeals to secure benefits.

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PENSACOLA, Fla. -- The Pensacola community is mourning the loss of three service members who were stationed at NAS Pensacola. The Pensacola Police Department says they were all killed in a car crash early Saturday morning.

Built in complete secrecy by Kelly Johnson and the Lockheed Skunk Works, the original U-2A first flew in August 1955. Early flights over the Soviet Union in the late 1950s provided the president and other US decision makers with key intelligence on Soviet military capability. In October 1962, the U-2 photographed the buildup of Soviet offensive nuclear missiles in Cuba, touching off the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Angelina Resendiz’s voice on the phone was frantic. She was calling a friend from the barracks room of Jermiah Copeland, a fellow sailor at Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia. They had spent the evening together, kissing and drinking, and now Resendiz, 21, needed to leave.

Sufficient forces are now deployed in the region to carry out the potential attacks, the sources said. The scope of new US military operations would likely go beyond efforts to simply "mow the lawn" or maintain the status quo by striking radars, launchers and other Iranian assets that can be quickly reconstituted — as has been the case since Trump halted full combat operations earlier this year, the sources added.

Signs point to renewed major US military ops against Iran

Navy Personnel should be vigilant overseas... Director of National Intelligence Jay Clayton warned Friday that Iran has "substantially increased efforts to target U.S. personnel" abroad, with plots to kill Americans reaching "advanced stages" in the Middle East and other countries.

Sailors and family living in Florida should be made aware of this. TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Florida’s Pinellas County is continuing to see a spike in dengue fever cases as the state’s outbreak shows no sign of slowing. Across the state of Florida, 425 locally acquired dengue fevers have been reported since the year began, with the majority of cases being reported in Hillsborough County.

While the trump administration has tried to rid the Armed Forces of transgender troops, certain branches of the military have been ignoring the ban. During his first week in office for his second term, President Donald Trump signed an executive order barring service members who identify as trans from the U.S. military.

KINGS COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) — A man leaving Naval Air Station Lemoore was killed in a crash on Thursday morning in Kings County. The crash was near Highway 198 and 25th Avenue.

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WICHITA FALLS (KFDX/KJTL) — World War II veteran Gordon Wallace has witnessed more than a century of history. But some of the memories that shaped his life most came from his time serving in the United States Navy, when a young farm boy from Oklahoma found himself traveling across the country and eventually serving at Pearl Harbor.