Liren āRyanā Lai and Yuance Chen were each sentenced to 30 months in prison and three years of supervised release after admitting they worked as agents of China's Ministry of State Security, part of a scheme that included clandestine cash drops, surveillance photos of Navy installations, and efforts to recruit U.S. sailors for Chinese intelligence.
American fighter jets are flying near-nightly missions over the Strait of Hormuz to intercept Iranian missiles and drones targeting commercial ships, sustaining an operation that has restored oil exports while stretching Navy crews, aircraft, and maintenance teams thin. However, at the same time it is also spending large amounts of resources.
Christina Fuller is an American former military spouse living without legal residency in southern Spain, where a custody fight has kept her and her son for years. When her family arrived near the Strait of Gibraltar on US military orders, her son was two. Now, heās nearly 10.
Fullerās marriage to a US Navy sailor assigned to a guided-missile destroyer at Naval Station Rota fell apart soon after the family arrived in 2019.
U.S. sailors can expect extra long deployments for the foreseeable future, U.S. Navy officials said during separate speaking engagements with the U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation this week.