It was announced this past week that Naval Base San Diego (NBSD) was selected as the recipient of the 2010 Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Safety Excellence Award for safety excellence executed in 2009.
"We are honored to continue to be recognized for our programs and efforts in promoting safety," Scott Poston, NBSD's safety manager, told Navy Compass. "Our continual recognized success is an ongoing testament of our sailors ...
A Chinese man has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for trying to smuggle restricted U.S. military equipment to his native Macau, Associated Press reports.
A federal judge in San Diego handed down the sentence Monday for Chi Tong Kuok.
Kuok was convicted in May of conspiracy, money, laundering, smuggling and attempting to export defense articles without a license. Prosecutors say Kuok tried to buy and smuggle ...
I've heard people describe the Korean War as the 'forgotten war." And sadly I believe it's true. Sometimes we get so caught up in discussions of the Vietnam War and those accompanying turbulent times, or in the all of the histrionics of World War II with D-Day and Adolf Hitler and the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, we forget that a very brutal and significant war was fought ...
A new documentary being shown at the Venice Film Festival explores the trauma of three U.S. war veterans who served in Iraq and how the military handled their cases, according to the Associated Press. "Ward 54," so named for the psychiatric wing of the U.S. military's Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, also deals with the rise in military suicides following Iraq duty.
The film opens ...
Marine's defense lawyer steps down in Iraq case - A major Iraqi war crimes case that has dragged on for five years hit another snag Monday when a military judge excused one of the attorneys for a Marine sergeant whose squad was charged with killing 24 Iraqis. The move by military judge Lt. Col. David M. Jones came only weeks before the trial is set to begin on Nov. 2 ...
