Graduating from Harvard Medical School and being a part of the Navy SEALs must not have been enough accomplishments for Jonny Kim. The 35-year-old is now the first Korean-American to become a NASA astronaut. Kim, along with 12 others, graduated last week from NASA’s Artemis program, allowing the astronauts to be eligible to participate in missions […]
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In an extraordinary move, the Pentagon chief “fired” the Navy secretary Sunday for going outside his chain of command by proposing a “secret agreement with the White House,” according to a senior defense official. The agreement that led to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer’s forced resignation involved the case of Navy SEAL Eddie Gallagher, one of three […]
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A decorated Navy SEAL was found not guilty of murder and attempted murder Tuesday by a military jury in San Diego. Navy SEAL Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, 40, was accused of fatally stabbing a young wounded ISIS fighter, posing for a picture with the corpse and shooting two civilians from a sniper’s perch in […]
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The only living member of the original Navy SEAL team celebrated his 94th birthday Thursday. In 1943, Bill Dawson was part of the very first team of Naval Combat Demolition Units, or more commonly known as “frogmen.” They eventually evolved into the modern-day Navy SEALs. Dawson was just 17 when he joined the Pacific Theater […]
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Four more of the youth soccer players trapped for over two weeks in a flooded cave in northern Thailand were brought out on Monday, an official said, bringing to eight the number extracted in the ongoing high-stakes rescue operation. “The eighth person is out and the operation is done for today,” Sitthichai Klangpattana, flag officer […]
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President Donald Trump has awarded the Medal of Honor to a Navy SEAL who oversaw a daring assault and rescue mission on a snowy Afghanistan mountaintop in 2002. Trump presented the nation’s most prestigious honor for battlefield bravery to retired Master Chief Special Warfare Operator Britt K. Slabinski at the White House Thursday. Trump says Slabinski is […]
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WASHINGTON (CNN) — The US military released five brief video clips Friday showing for the first time some of the information seized in Sunday’s counterterrorism raid against al Qaeda in Yemen. Five short video clips show a black-hooded figure in head-to-toe white garb standing in front of a white board and giving a lecture on […]
