The little hut is built and in line for Newport News Shipbuilding’s giant gantry crane to swing it onboard the USS John C. Stennis. Once on the dry-docked carrier’s hangar deck, it will become the Look Ahead Cafe.

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Stennis refueling off to a fast start — with coffee to go coming soon

The U.S. Defense Department announced on June 11 a new military assistance package for Ukraine.

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Pentagon Announces $150 Million In Military Aid For Ukraine

President Biden will nominate Carlos Del Toro, a Cuban-born Navy veteran who runs a small IT firm in Virginia, to be secretary of the Navy, the White House announced Friday.



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President Joe Biden's administration will return more than $2 billion in funds allotted under his predecessor Donald Trump to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border to the military and devote other remaining money to construction site clean up, the White House budget...

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For the past several years,  a team at Hampton’s NASA Langley Research Center has been helping lead a $500 million cross-country project to figure out how to quiet sonic booms.

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stripes - How NASA Langley is key to the future of supersonic air travel

The drone, assigned to the 162nd Wing of the Arizona Air National Guard and operated by the 214th Attack Squadron Mission Control Element at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona, began to display warnings that its fuel levels were low about three hours before the crash, said the report, released Tuesday.

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stripes - Fuel leak forced Air Force to down costly drone over Africa, report says

A Wisconsin Air National Guard pilot who died when his F-16 crashed in Michigan during a nighttime training exercise in December had become disoriented after trying to fix a problem with his global positioning system, an Air Force accident report said.

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stripes - Pilot disorientation led to deadly F-16 crash in Michigan, Air Force report says

No, soldier, you do not need a special license to wear Heelys, shoes with wheels built into the sole, when stationed on the Korean peninsula.

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stripes - Eighth Army sets record straight on wearing Heelys in South Korea

Rolling to Remember is an annual event aimed at honoring war veterans who were either taken prisoner or are still missing in action. The motorcycle event formerly known as Rolling Thunder will take place Memorial Day weekend in Washington, D.C.

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Rolling To Remember Forges Ahead Despite Biden Pentagon Rejections

The head of an American Legion post in Ohio stepped down Friday amid criticism following the decision of Memorial Day ceremony organizers to turn off a retired U.S. Army officer's microphone while he was speaking about how freed Black slaves honored fallen soldiers just after the Civil War.

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