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  1. U.S. Military Stops and Boards M/T Tifani, Tanker Carrying Iranian Oil, Pentagon Says

    The U.S. military on Tuesday stopped and boarded a sanctioned tanker in the Indian Ocean carrying oil from…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #BayofBengal #breakingnews #defensedepartment #Iran #ShipsandShipping #StraitofHormuz #UnitedStatesDefenseandMilitaryForces #UnitedStatesNavy
    newsbeep.com/496952/

  2. How the Cole Disaster Drove the U.S. to Develop New Warship Defenses

    The American destroyer off the coast of the Arabian Peninsula was taken unawares by a small fiberglass skiff…
    #NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Cole(USS) #Drones(PilotlessPlanes) #GulfofOman #Iran #PersianGulf #ShipsandShipping #UnitedStatesDefenseandMilitaryForces #UnitedStatesNavy #World
    newsbeep.com/496310/

  3. europesays.com/iran/67400/ No Ships Have Broken Through US Blockade in Persian Gulf, CENTCOM Says, Threatening To Deprive Islamic Republic of Billions in Oil Revenue #Iran #IranStrikes #OperationEpicFury #PersianGulf #UnitedStatesNavy

  4. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ Zumwalt-class destroyer ✧

    The Zumwalt-class destroyer is a class of large guided-missile destroyers of the United States Navy. First commissioned in 2016, the ships have a distinctive appearance, with an inward-sloping tumblehome hull designed to reduce their radar cross section. The Zumwalt class uses an integrated electric propulsion system that can distrib...

    #UnitedStatesNavy #AtlanticOcean #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zumwalt-

  5. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ Montana class ✧

    The Montana class was a planned class of battleships for the United States Navy; five ships were approved for construction during World War II, but none were built. With increased anti-aircraft capability and thicker armor in all areas, the Montanas would have been the largest and most heavily armed US battleships ever, and rival...

    #UnitedStatesNavy #Montana #Navy #PearlHarbor #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montana-

  6. USS Buncombe County (LST-510) is an LST-491-class #tankLandingShip built for the #UnitedStatesNavy during #WorldWarII. Named for #BuncombeCountyNorthCarolina, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name. She currently serves as a #ferry between #NewLondonConnecticut, and #OrientLongIsland.

  7. "Anchors Aweigh" is the #fightSong of the United States Naval Academy and unofficial #marchSong of the #UnitedStatesNavy. It was composed in 1906 by #CharlesAZimmermann with lyrics by Alfred Hart Miles. When he composed "Anchors Aweigh", Zimmermann was a lieutenant and had been #bandmaster of the #UnitedStatesNavalAcademyBand since 1887. Miles was #midshipman first class at the academy, in the class of 1907.
    youtube.com/watch?v=Rdg56-n8p8Q

  8. The University of Southern California (USC) has been selling human cadavers to the United States Navy to be used in trauma surgery training by the Israeli Defense Forces. A team from USCAnnenbergMedia, the university's student paper, reports more.

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    #News #USNews #University #UniversityOfSouthernCalifornia #UnitedStatesNavy #IDF #StudentJournalism

  9. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔'𝗦 𝗙𝗘𝗔𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘𝗗 𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗟𝗘

    ✧ USS Congress ✧

    USS Congress was a nominally rated 38-gun wooden-hulled, three-masted heavy frigate launched on 15 August 1799. She was one of the original six frigates of the newly formed United States Navy and, along with her sister ships, was larger and more heavily armed than standard frigates of the period. Her first duties we...

    #UnitedStatesNavy #BarbaryWar #Congress #WestIndies #SouthAmerica #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cong

  10. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ John Henry Turpin ✧

    John Henry Turpin (1876–1962) was a sailor in the United States Navy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the first African-American chief petty officers in the U.S. Navy, becoming a chief gunner's mate on the cruiser Marblehead in 1917. He was transferred to the Fleet Reserve in 1919 and retired in 1925. He is als...

    #UnitedStatesNavy #FleetReserve #Marblehead #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hen

  11. 𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

    ✧ USS Johnston ✧

    USS Johnston was a Fletcher-class destroyer built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was named after Lieutenant John V. Johnston, a navy officer during the American Civil War. The ship was laid down in May 1942 and was launched in March 1943, entering active duty later that year as...

    #UnitedStatesNavy #AmericanCivilWar #ImperialJapaneseNavy #Johnston #PacificFleet #Wikipedia
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_John