Hundreds of feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, cocooned within one of the US Navy’s most technologically advanced pieces of equipment, Rear Adm. Jeff Jablon is clear-eyed about the two biggest challenges his team faces.
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Four sailors from the San Diego-based USS Theodore Roosevelt have been hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms, Navy officials said Tuesday, in an announcement that came one day after a crew member died of complications from the virus. The number of positive cases aboard the carrier now numbers nearly 600, with one of the four hospitalized sailors […]
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(CNN) — There are now 23 sailors who have tested positive for the coronavirus aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, just two days after the Pentagon announced that three sailors aboard the ship had tested positive for the virus, a Navy official has confirmed to CNN. Earlier in the day, acting Navy Secretary Thomas Modly had said there […]
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(CNN) — The US Navy’s 6th Fleet is instituting a 14-day self-quarantine between port visits by US Navy ships in Europe over concerns of the coronavirus, according to two US Navy officials, a move intended to bring the fleet inline with instructions from the US Pacific Fleet. Ships will stay at sea for at least 14 days after […]
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The Pentagon will deploy 1,800 more troops to Saudi Arabia in response to requests by the leading US military commander in the Middle East and, in part, because the US Navy is unable to send a relief aircraft carrier to deter potential Iranian aggression, multiple US officials tell CNN. The move to bolster troops in […]
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The US Navy has finally acknowledged footage purported to show UFOs hurtling through the air. And while officials said they don’t know what the objects are, they’re not indulging any hints either. The objects seen in three clips of declassified military footage are “unidentified aerial phenomena,” Navy spokesperson Joe Gradisher confirmed to CNN. The clips, released between […]
