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Becker man selected for Navy's Blue Angels Marine Corps Maj. Mark Hamilton was selected to be a C-130 demonstration pilot Check out this story on sctimes.com: http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2014/07/23/becker-man-selected-navys-blue-angels/13038567/ Marine Maj.

Dawn Halfaker was on patrol 10 years ago in Baqubah, Iraq, when a rocket-propelled grenade tore through her military vehicle and exploded inside.

It was an terrible and extraordinary event: Beaked whales are the world's deepest-diving mammals, and these creatures had spent most of their lives in deep undersea canyons.

A Few Bad Men, a book written by former Navy submarine officer and JAG Gregg Parker, offers a searing account of sex trafficking and forced prostitution near many overseas U.S. military locations and what can be done to bring these evil businesses to an end.

Fifty-four years ago this week, USS George Washington made history when it successfully launched two Polaris A1 missiles off Cape Canaveral, bringing to fruition a remarkable research and development effort composed of Navy and industry partners that had begun only four years earlier.

Christina Landry has earned kudos for DumBell Fitness, her boot camp-style classes tailored for military spouses in the Honolulu area.

Despite moving forward with the construction of 20 Littoral Combat Ships, the Navy is considering major changes to the beleaguered program - and one that may potentially involve replacing it entirely.

In the wake of a high-profile misconduct investigation of the Blue Angels, the Navy on Tuesday announced sweeping changes to the flight demonstration squadron's structure.

A man walks past a piece of the crashed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 near the village of Hrabove, eastern Ukraine The massacre of close to 300 men, women and children aboard a civilian aircraft was "an understandable accident".

Pentagon documents show there were 161 confirmed or suspected suicides as of July 14, compared with 154 during the same time frame in 2013.

First off, "Drunk History" is a weird show. We're not sure if it's the mis-matched lip-synch narration or the weirdly-bizarro-perfect casting, or if it's just the booze talking, but it's weird.

THE Devonport Royal Naval Volunteer Band from Plymouth Naval Base hit the high notes at the Royal Naval Volunteer Band Festival.

China's debut at the monthlong Rim of the Pacific, or Rimpac, exercises has been hailed by Chinese and U.S. officials as evidence of an improving military relationship, despite escalating tensions over territorial disputes in Asia.

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert has left the People's Republic of China after a successful four-day counterpart visit with military leaders, fleet units and leaders of the State Oceanic Administration says the Chief of Naval Operations Public Affairs Office.

Northwest Energy Innovations' wave energy conversion device undergoing preliminary testing off the Oregon coast.

IN September 2011 Royal Marine Andrew Mills received a chilling phone call in the early hours of the morning, informing him that his services were needed to support a Blackburn mother whose only son had been killed in Afghanistan.

An Indian Navy commando was on Monday killed in a weapon-handling accident at Visakhapatnam-based INS Kalinga, a missile storage facility under the Eastern Naval Command and a base for marine commandos .

Commander, United States Fleet Forces Command, Admiral Bill Gortney, presents sailors assigned to the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg with the 2013 Battenberg Cup.

The Wall Street Journal noted on Sunday that the Israelis, whose Iron Dome ballistic missile defense system has done much service blunting Hamas' missile attack, is already working on an enhancement called "Iron Beam."

Navy Leapfrogs woo crowds at the Defenders of Freedom Air Show this weekend at the Offutt Air Force Base.