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Sailor for Life - Issue #5

This is an eye opener... The Pentagon watchdog’s report paints a picture of significant losses to US forces and facilities in the region, far more than previously acknowledged.

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Two former U.S. Navy sailors who are married have admitted to federal drug charges after selling counterfeit oxycodone tablets laced with fentanyl to military personnel in San Diego, leading to a fatal overdose.

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On May 16, more than a year after Hernandez applied her father for the Military Parole in Place program, ICE officers detained Hernandez-Reyna at a gas station just outside of Phoenix in front of Hernandez's two younger brothers. She was 2,000 miles away at the time, stationed at Fort Stewart, Georgia.

When Japanese bombs turned USS Franklin into a floating crematorium, a claustrophobic Jesuit priest walked into its burning guts and showed the Navy what courage looked like before the brass tried to make his medal smaller.

Kremlev footed the bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars of wedding expenses, according to records reviewed by ProPublica and interviews with three people familiar with the event. The oligarch paid to rent out one of the private islands, where a reception was held and where guests slept. He also covered other big-ticket items, like the fireworks show, and his team helped plan the event. Kremlev is the head of the International Boxing Association, a scandal-plagued sports group that has been financed by the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. The wedding payments came from an IBA-affiliated entity in Dubai that the boxing association uses for financial transactions.

Iran is likely to study and attempt to reverse-engineer a U.S. Navy underwater drone captured by Iranian forces near the Strait of Hormuz, potentially handing Tehran useful technology while delivering a setback for the Pentagon. According to a Reuters report published September 9, the 19-foot Dive-LD autonomous underwater vehicle malfunctioned while surveying regional waters before Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps recovered it.

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"They blew the hell out of Bahrain," Hung Cao said in an interview with The Epoch Times on Wednesday, in a rare official admission of the impact of the conflict on a key US facility amid escalating tensions in the Gulf, six months into the US and Israel's war on Iran.

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Several U.S. fighter jets at a Jordanian military base were damaged in Iranian strikes on Wednesday, sources tell CBS News. Iran's state media had previously said Tehran targeted U.S. assets across the region in retaliation for American attacks on Iranian oil tankers. Yemen's Houthis seized the key Red Sea port of Mokha on Thursday, according to military sources speaking to the AFP and Reuters.

The U.S. Navy sea drone that Iran has boasted about capturing in the Strait of Hormuz can operate underwater for up to 10 days and at depths of up to six kilometers. Iran’s IRGC (Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps) captured the American uncrewed underwater vehicle (UUV) Anduril Dive-LD on Tuesday, according to the semiofficial Tasnim news agency which posted an image of the vessel.

U.S. Navy leaders promised Tuesday to apply “lessons learned” from the USS Abraham Lincoln’s record-setting deployment in preparing another aircraft carrier, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, for its assignment in the Middle East next month.

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US strikes Iranian tankers after more attempted missile attacks on Navy warship

More than an information technology upgrade, the migration represents a significant milestone in the Department of Navy’s broader effort to transform how personnel information is managed, accessed, and protected across the Fleet.

Iran-backed Houthis attack four Saudi cities in expansion of Middle East war, 73 hurt

ICE has deported the mother of David Garcia, a first‑year midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy, after taking her into custody during her scheduled green card interview. The removal has intensified scrutiny of the administration’s immigration tactics, particularly toward military families.

On Sept. 6, 1947, a rocket launched from an aircraft carrier for the first time. The V-2 rocket was captured from a German manufacturing site by the Allied forces at the end of World War II.

The USS Abraham Lincoln will make another port stop before returning to the United States, according to the wife of a serving officer aboard the aircraft carrier, extending a deployment that has already raised concerns about conditions, maintenance and crew welfare. Ashley Rogers told Newsweek that her husband said the carrier must remain in the Indo-Pacific to complete time originally assigned to that region after it was diverted to the Middle East.

U.S. attacks 3 Iranian oil tankers after missiles target Navy warships

Washington — Some of the highest-ranking officials in the U.S. military were subjected to polygraph tests as part of a sweeping leak probe after highly sensitive classified details about the nation's stockpiles of sophisticated weapons were reported in the media, U.S. officials briefed on the matter told CBS News.