So if the USS Ronald Reagan at 100 miles of the coast of Japan sails through a Radioactive cloud, what is really happening at the Fukushima Nuclear power plant.
The Jerusalem Post
Pentagon expected to announce that USS Ronald Reagan and sailors onboard were exposed to a month's worth of radiation in an hour; no signs of ill effects yet.
The US Pentagon was expected to announce that US sailors on the USS Ronald Reagan, an aircraft carrier were exposed to radiation when the carrier sailed into a radioactive cloud off the coast of Japan, according to a New York Times report.
US government officials told the NY Times that sailors and other military personnel onboard were exposed to a month's worth of radiation in an hour's time. They added that US helicopters flying humanitarian missions some 60 miles north of damaged Japanese reactors were coated with particulate radiation. The aircraft were washed off.
Monday, March 14, 2011
US aircraft carrier reportedly sails into radioactive cloud
Monday, March 7, 2011
U.S. Commandos Capture 4 Suspected Pirates
Good job, It would be much nicer just to see them Killed instead of captured; but at least they won't be out pirating anymore.
Foxnews
Anti-piracy officials say U.S. commandos have captured four suspected pirates who boarded a Japanese-owned oil tanker off the coast of Oman.
A statement by the international anti-piracy task force says the 24 crew members on the MV Guanabara took refuge in a protected part of the vessel after reporting they were under attack Saturday.
A special unit from the destroyer USS Bulkeley boarded the tanker Sunday and detained the suspected pirates about 328 nautical miles southeast of Duqm in southern Oman.
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Pearl Harbor Day.
69 years ago!
Indystar.com
Old soldiers pass into history, and with them the battles they fought.
Even with seminal events such as Pearl Harbor, as those who were there die, the stories fade.
By now, 95 percent of those who survived the surprise attack are gone, including, as of Monday, Robert Newkirk.
Newkirk, a Franklin resident, died the day he was to speak at an observance of the 69th anniversary of the attack.
Few men were as committed to keeping alive the memory of Pearl Harbor -- officially remembered today -- as Newkirk.
Never Forget
Sunday, July 25, 2010
Taliban: One U.S. service member is dead, other is alive in Afghanistan
Taking a Day off from everything yesterday I sure missed a lot .
The Taliban is saying one Navy personnel has been Killed and one is being held , a widespread search is underway .
Apparently these Drove off in a car and were attacked by 15 Taliban , why they took off ?
Hopefully they are recovered .
Washington post
KABUL -- A U.S. Navy service member was killed in a shoot-out with Taliban insurgents in Logar province, and another is alive and in insurgent custody, a Taliban spokesman and a Logar province government official said Sunday.
NATO officials have not confirmed these reports and still characterize the two Navy service members as missing since they drove off their Kabul base on Friday.
But Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, and Samer Gul Rashid, the Charkh district chief, said in telephone interviews that the two Americans were passing through Charkh district in an armored SUV on Friday evening when they were stopped by Taliban fighters.
"Wanted to arrest them alive. But they showed resistance. And the mujahediin fired back," Mujahid said. "We still have one of them with us."
Friday, April 23, 2010
U.S. charges 11 Somalis with piracy in ship attacks
Glad to see these rejects charged with their crimes , To bad they are being brought to the United States for their trials , which will inevitably cost Millions of Dollars , not to mention the fact that when they are found guilty we have to foot the bill for their incarceration .
Yes the cost to keep them locked up the rest of their lives will be on the U.S Taxpayer !
A bullet to the head is much cheaper , but letting them go down with their ships is much nicer !
(Reuters) - Eleven suspected pirates from Somalia have been brought to the United States to face piracy and other charges for attacks on two U.S. Navy ships off the coast of Africa, the Justice Department said on Friday.
It said the suspects were scheduled to appear on Friday in federal court in Norfolk, Virginia. The 11 men had been held on U.S. ships for weeks off Somalia's coast as U.S. officials decided what to do with them.
Five defendants were captured after the March 31 attack in which the Navy frigate, the USS Nicholas, exchanged fire with a suspected pirate vessel in the Indian Ocean west of the Seychelles, sinking a skiff and confiscating its mother ship.
Two of the accused pirates opened fire at night on what they believed to be a merchant ship, but it actually was the Navy vessel, according to U.S. court documents filed in the case.
In the other incident, six defendants were charged with the April 10 attack on another Navy vessel, the USS Ashland, in the Gulf of Aden. They allegedly opened fire on the vessel with small arms from their boat.
In addition to piracy, the criminal charges included attacks to plunder a vessel, assault with a dangerous weapon, and use of a firearm during a crime of violence.
If convicted of piracy, the suspects face a mandatory sentence of life in prison, a Justice Department spokesman said.
It was not the first time an accused Somali pirate has been sent to the United States to face criminal charges.
Last year, a teenager from Somalia was extradited to New York to face charges he attempted to hijack a U.S. ship in the Indian Ocean.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
US Navy SEAL cleared in Iraq abuse case
Awesome , now Clear the Other two !
Foxnews
BAGHDAD (AP) — A U.S. Navy SEAL was cleared Thursday of charges he covered up the alleged beating of an Iraqi prisoner suspected of masterminding the grisly 2004 killings of four American security contractors.
The Blackwater guards' burned bodies were dragged through the streets, and two were hanged from a bridge over the Euphrates river in the former insurgent hotbed of Fallujah, in what became a turning point in the Iraq war.
On Thursday, a six-man Navy jury found Petty Officer 1st Class Julio Huertas not guilty of dereliction of duty and impeding the investigation. The jury heard too many differences between the testimony of a sailor who claimed he witnessed the Sept. 1 assault at a U.S. base outside Fallujah and statements from a half-dozen others who denied his account.
Smiling and composed as he left the courthouse at the U.S. military's Camp Victory on Baghdad's western outskirts, Huertas said he felt vindicated.
"It's a big weight off my shoulders," said Huertas, 29, of Blue Island, Illinois. "Compared to all the physical activity we go through, this has been mentally more challenging."
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
This is so effed up. Navy Seals face charges for capture of Fallujah ambush mastermind.
<--- The man responsible for this nightmare got a bloody lip and now the brave men that captured him are all facing court martial. This is wrong on so many levels.
From Fox News:
Navy SEALs have secretly captured one of the most wanted terrorists in Iraq — the alleged mastermind of the murder and mutilation of four Blackwater USA security guards in Fallujah in 2004. And for their trouble, three of the SEALs, members of the Navy's elite commando unit, are now facing criminal charges, sources told FoxNews.com.
The three have refused non-judicial punishment — called an admiral's mast — and requested a trial by court-martial.
Ahmed Hashim Abed, whom the military code-named "Objective Amber," told investigators he was punched by his captors — and he had the bloody lip to prove it.
Now, instead of being lauded for bringing to justice a high-value target, three of the SEAL commandos, all enlisted, face assault charges and have retained lawyers.
Matthew McCabe, a Special Operations Petty Officer Second Class (SO-2), is facing three charges: dereliction of performance of duty for willfully failing to safeguard a detainee, making a false official statement, and assault.
Petty Officer Jonathan Keefe, SO-2, is facing charges of dereliction of performance of duty and making a false official statement.
Petty Officer Julio Huertas, SO-1, faces those same charges and an additional charge of impediment of an investigation.
The three SEALs will be arraigned separately on Dec. 7. Another three SEALs — two officers and an enlisted sailor — have been identified by investigators as witnesses but have not been charged.
Instead of bringing them up on charges they should be giving them all a medal. This is just insane. (For my part, I'd like to buy them all a beer.)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Ship built with WTC steel sails for namesake city
"Hopefully, it's going overseas to do damage to them like it did to us,"
My sentiments exactly , I only hope that this ship finds its way into battle with a full load of marines and their gear , to beat the crap out of those that would harm us !
From AP
AVONDALE, La. — A Navy assault ship built with tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center towers began its journey to New York on Tuesday, sailing down the Mississippi River in a pea-soup fog as watchers along the levee strained for a glimpse.
The USS New York, named to commemorate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, left the Northrop Grumman shipyard where it was built for the trip to its namesake city. The $1 billion ship will be formally commissioned in New York in early November.
The New York is 684 feet long and can carry up to 800 Marines. It has a flight deck that can handle helicopters and the MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft.
Four tugboats performed an intricate set of maneuvers to pull the warship from the dock at the New Orleans-area shipyard and turn it 180 degrees toward the waters of Gulf of Mexico. An armed Coast Guard speedboat and a helicopter flying overhead guarded the vessel. The ship will sail through the Gulf and around Florida before turning north and continuing to New York.
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Somali pirates fire on US Navy helicopter
It's time to bring in the snipers again. USA Today
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Somali pirates holding a hijacked ship off the coast of Somalia fired at a U.S. Navy helicopter as it made a surveillance flight over the vessel, the first such attack by pirates on an American military aircraft, the Navy said Thursday.[...]Update DVIDS released the raw video of this today.
The copter was flying on Wednesday over a Taiwanese-flagged fishing vessel, the Win Far, which pirates seized along with its 30-member crew in April and were holding south of the Somali port town of Hobyo.
The helicopter was about 3,000 yards away from the ship when the pirates opened fire with "a large caliber weapon," the Navy said in a statement. The helicopter did not return fire, it said.
Since seizing the Win Far in the Gulf of Aden, the pirates have used the vessel as a base for attacking other commercial ships, including the U.S.-flagged Maersk Alabama. Four pirates seized the Maersk Alabama in April, taking its captain Richard Phillips hostage. He was held for five days in a sweltering lifeboat off the coast until U.S. Navy snipers shot three of his captors dead.
Thanks to Howie from the Jawa Report
Monday, August 3, 2009
New warship named after Marine
I like this idea, a perfect way of honoring our fallen heroes. MSNBC
BATH, Maine - In a solemn ceremony punctuated by talk of courage, service and sacrifice, the mother of a Marine corporal on Saturday christened a warship honoring her son, who died after covering an exploding grenade to protect his comrades in Iraq.
After composing herself and taking a deep breath, Deb Dunham smashed a bottle of champagne over the bow of the 510-foot warship Jason Dunham, then held the bottle aloft to the cheers of hundreds.
She was joined by the Marines who served with her son, by her husband, Dan Dunham, and their daughter Katelyn Dunham.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
US Navy is tracking several North Korean ships
“We have been interested in this one ship [the Kang Nam], but we’ve been interested in, frankly, multiple ships,”
It's a good thing that President Obama has ordered the US Navy not to use force to inspect the North Korean ships.
"The U.N. resolution lays out a regime that has a very clear set of steps," Flournoy said, according to the Yonhap news agency. "I want to be very clear ... This is not a resolution that sponsors, that authorizes use of force for interdiction."
So the national security of the USA is now dependent on half assed UN resolutions. There is a possibility that at least one of these North Korean ships could be carryinng nuclear, chemical or even biological weapons and we can't use force to find out. Insanity.
Joong Ang Daily
The United States said it was monitoring “multiple” North Korean ships suspected of carrying weapons and that it would discuss with its allies what to do with one suspect vessel it is tracking.
While the United States has been tracking the Kang Nam since last week, the Pentagon said it is closely monitoring several other North Korean ships allegedly carrying weapons. “We have been interested in this one ship [the Kang Nam], but we’ve been interested in, frankly, multiple ships,” Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell said.[...]
Morrell said U.S. authorities were monitoring North Korean ships even before the UN Security Council resolution and were doing so under the Proliferation Security Initiative. Created in 2003, the PSI is a multinational regime designed to halt the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction by interdicting and inspecting suspect cargo in territorial waters of 95 PSI members.
“Under PSI, we had obligations to and an interest in tracking ships to make sure there was no proliferation of any banned goods,” Morrell said. “We obviously, under [Resolution] 1874, have additional responsibilities and authorities, and we appreciate that.”
Saturday, June 20, 2009
US Navy to "hail and query" North Korean ship believed to be prolifering nuclear tech
"We intend to vigorously enforce the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1874 to include options, to include, certainly, hail and query," said Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen.
The most powerful navy is the world has backed down from threats from China and North Korea. The US will not use force in enforcing sanctions imposed on North Korea.
Instead the US Navy will politely ask the North Korean ship to let them be boarded to check for any contraband ie nuclear material. The North Korean sailors will just ROR (raugh out roud).
Yahoo News
WASHINGTON – The U.S. military is tracking a ship from North Korea that may be carrying illicit weapons, the first vessel monitored under tougher new United Nations rules meant to rein in and punish the communist government following a nuclear test, officials said Thursday.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he has ordered additional protections for Hawaii just in case North Korea launches a long-range missile over the Pacific Ocean.
The suspect ship could become a test case for interception of the North's ships at sea, something the North has said it would consider an act of war.
Officials said the U.S. is monitoring the voyage of the North Korean-flagged Kang Nam, which left port in North Korea on Wednesday. On Thursday, it was traveling in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of China, two officials said on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence.
Friday, June 19, 2009
U.S. Military Set to Intercept North Korean Ship Suspected of Proliferating Missiles, Nukes
Here comes the test ! North Korea will definitely turn down the request to board and inspect the ship , What the U.S Navy will do next ? Who Knows But this could get nasty !
Fox News....
The U.S. military is planning to intercept a flagged North Korean ship suspected of proliferating weapons material in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution passed last Friday, FOX News has learned.
The USS John McCain, a navy destroyer, will intercept the ship Kang Nam as soon as it leaves the vicinity off the coast of China, according to a senior U.S. defense official. The order to inderdict has not been given yet, but the ship is getting into position.
The ship left a port in North Korea Wednesday and appears to be heading toward Singapore, according to a senior U.S. military source. The vessel, which the military has been tracking since its departure, could be carrying weaponry, missile parts or nuclear materials, a violation of U.N. Resolution 1874, which put sanctions in place against Pyongyang.
The ship is currently along the coast of China and being monitored around-the-clock by air.
The apparent violation raises the question of how the United States and its allies will respond, particularly since the U.N. resolution does not have a lot of teeth to it.
The resolution would not allow the United States to board the ship forcibly. Rather, U.S. military would have to request permission to board -- a request North Korea is unlikely to grant.
North Korea has said that any attempt to board its ships would be viewed as an act of war and promised "100- or 1,000-fold" retaliation if provoked.
Friday, May 8, 2009
Pirates fire at U.S. Navy ship off Somalia
Not letting them go !
MANAMA (Reuters) - Pirates have fired small arms weapons at a U.S. Navy supply ship off the coast of Eastern Somalia, the first attack of this kind since last year's surge in pirate attacks, the U.S. Navy said on Thursday.
The USNS Lewis and Clark was chased for about an hour on Wednesday morning by two pirates skiffs, but neither came closer than about one nautical mile to the U.S. vessel, the U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet said in a statement.
The small arms fire fell well short of the U.S. ship which speeded up to evade the skiffs.
The USNS Lewis and Clark earlier served as a temporary detention facility for suspected pirates arrested at sea, but its operations are now limited to providing supplies to other U.S. ships operating in the area.
Somali pirates have increased their activities in recent weeks, defying the presence of international navies in the area.
There have been 97 attempted attacks on merchant vessels in the Gulf of Aden in 2009, 27 of which have been successful, according to the U.S. Navy.
In the latest incident, Somali pirates on Thursday seized a small Dutch vessel with at least eight crew in the Gulf of Aden.
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Captain Phillips Rescued!!!
Thank God Captain Phillips is safe and sound now. Three out of the four pirates were reportedly killed in a swift firefight and the fourth one has been captured. Captain Phillips jumped out the lifeboat for the second attempt and freedom and as soon as he was out the pirates were fired upon.
Now it's time to send a couple of raids to the Pirates land base and raze it to the ground.BBC
The captain of a US container ship taken hostage by Somali pirates has been released, the US Navy has said.
Three pirates are reported to have been killed in the operation to free Captain Richard Phillips, who had been held in a lifeboat for several days.
Capt Phillips is safe and receiving medical treatment aboard the USS Bainbridge, a warship sent to track the pirates holding him, officials said. [...]
An unnamed US official told the Associated Press news agency that Capt Phillips was freed in what appeared to be a swift firefight.
Reports say he jumped overboard for a second time, and the pirates were shot and killed before they could take action to get him back.
US forces apparently took advantage of the fact one of the pirates was negotiating on the USS Bainbridge when the incident happened.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Russian planes fly over U.S. Navy ships...again
I don't think the resent button Hillary gave to the Russians is working. I bet its because it was built in China. CNN
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Russian military aircraft flew just 500 feet over two U.S. Navy ships this week as the ships participated in a joint military exercise with South Korea in the Sea of Japan, according to U.S. military officials.
On Monday, two Russian Ilyushin IL-38 maritime patrol aircraft, known as "Mays," overflew the U.S. aircraft carrier Stennis while it was in international waters in the Sea of Japan.
The Russian aircraft flew about 500 feet over the ship, lower than other flights the Russians have made over U.S. ships in the past year.[...]
On Tuesday, the USS Blue Ridge, a lead command and control ship, and the Stennis were overflown by two Russian "Bear" long-range bombers multiple times, according to U.S. military officials.
The Bears overflew the ships at about 2,000 feet, officials said.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
2 Navy Vessels Collide in Strait of Hormuz
Thank God no sailors were seriously injured. This collision could have been a lot worse, considering the nuclear power submarine involved.
The Navy must have a lot of vessels around the Strait of Hormuz, if they're bumping into each other like this. There probably is no correlation with the number of US Navy ships around the Strait of Hormuz and Iran, right?New York Times
MANAMA, Bahrain — A nuclear-powered United States submarine collided with a Navy warship early Friday in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage through which much of the world’s oil must pass on its way to market, the Navy announced.
Both ships were damaged in the crash, and 15 sailors on board the submarine, the Hartford, were slightly injured, according to the Fifth Fleet, which is based in Bahrain. A spokesman for the fleet, Lt. Nate Christensen, said none of the sailors needed medical evacuation and all were back on duty.[...]
The submarine was submerged, Lieutenant Christensen said, and the vessels were headed to port around 1 a.m. when the collision occurred. The fleet reported that there was no damage to the submarine’s nuclear reactor, and that both ships were able to return to port under their own power.
The vessels were involved in what the Navy calls “maritime security operations.” The Navy does not release specific details of its activities for security reasons. Lieutenant Christensen said there were three dozen ships deployed in the region at any given time.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Chinese Navy moons US surveillance ship
For several days the Chinese navy harrassed the US Impeccable, a surveillance ship. At one point a Chinese ship came within 25 feet of the Impeccable and the US Impeccable was forced to use it's water hose to defend itself. Then the Chinese sailors exposed their bare asses to the US Impeccable.
I hope whoever was operating that water canon had good aim. GuardianThe exposure came as the American vessel USNS Impeccable was attempting to defend itself against what the Pentagon claimed was co-ordinated harassment and aggression from five Chinese ships. Being unarmed, the Impeccable turned its fire water hoses against two of the Chinese vessels that had come within 50 feet in a threatening posture.
Then, the Pentagon records in the admirably restrained language of international diplomacy, "the Chinese crew members disrobed to their underwear and continued closing to within 25 feet."[...]
According to the Pentagon, the targetting of the Impeccable came at the end of several days in which Chinese naval vessels had been stepping up their harassment in international waters.
Monday, March 2, 2009
U.S. navy hands 9 pirates to Somali authorities
I just hope there is Video !!!
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BOSASSO (Reuters) - U.S. forces handed over to authorities in northern Somalia Monday nine pirates they captured after capsizing their boats at sea, a local official said.
The handcuffed men, paraded before reporters in the enclave of Puntland, are expected to appear in court this week, said Mohamed Said, Puntland's deputy police commander.
"The U.S. Navy told us they captured nine pirates Friday and they handed them over to us this afternoon as you can see," he told reporters in the port of Bosasso.
"These pirates were captured as they were trying to hijack ships in the Gulf of Aden ... the U.S. navy capsized the pirates' boats." U.S. officials were not immediately available to comment.
Somali pirates, typically in small groups aboard speedboats, have won millions of dollars in ransom from shipowners after boarding and seizing cargo vessels. The surge in piracy has caused international alarm and warships from several countries have rushed to try to curb the hijacks.
Newly elected President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, a moderate Islamist, and his new government aim to bring peace to the chaotic Horn of Africa nation.
It has had no effective government since warlords ousted dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991 then turned on each other.
Violence has killed more than 17,000 people since the start of 2007, uprooted 1 million, and caused a humanitarian crisis.
