Новости за 26.09.2019

Former Rep. Darrell Issa made it official Thursday: he is running for the congressional seat currently held by Rep. Duncan Hunter, who is fighting a criminal indictment. Issa said he has withdrawn his nomination for a senior trade post in the Trump Administration.

Air Force Gen. John Hyten, who withstood several months of intense scrutiny over claims of sexual assault, was confirmed Thursday by the Senate as the next vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The DOD started to track family members for its first-ever Annual Suicide Report because they are “an integral part of our military community,” said Karin Orvis, director of the Defense Suicide Prevention Office at the Pentagon.

A journey along the Moselle river brings you past many sights worth seeing. One of them is the town of Cochem.

It’s Sunday morning and you forgot to go grocery shopping the day before. Panic sets in as you realize all the German restaurants are closed on Sundays. Before frightened tears drip onto your rumbling stomach, don’t panic! There is a place off base that serves breakfast on Sundays.

As Groton-based Electric Boat ramps up submarine production, a congressional report has warned that it could run into manufacturing bottlenecks and rising pressure to broaden its network of suppliers of components and systems.

Tabayama is a quaint village in the mountains west of Tokyo where the picturesque views and natural silences can be abruptly broken with the screams of thrilled riders on Japan’s largest roller slide.

A Russian submarine has moored at Russia's base in Syria after a patrol mission while another one is getting ready to sail off after replenishing supplies — the rotation that underlines Moscow's growing military foothold in the Mediterranean Sea.

The one-size-fits-all roadless rule is an unnecessary layer of paralyzing regulation that should never have been applied to Alaska.

Iran’s breach of enrichment limits gives the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action’s signatories cause enough to impose their own economic sanctions. These may not add much bite to the American sanctions, but the symbolism would be useful.

Crew families, as well as friends, legislators, and current and former Navy officials were gathering Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery to honor the men who perished in 1963 when the USS Thresher burst a leak and imploded under the pressure of the ocean as it drifted out of control past its "crush" depth.

A list of U.S. Army soldiers who have been selected for promotion to the rank of sergeant major, master sergeant or sergeant first class as of October 1, 2019.

A Colorado-based soldier who had served in Iraq and Afghanistan died Wednesday in South Korea while testing to earn the Army’s Expert Field Medic Badge in South Korea, Army officials said Thursday.

One soldier is dead and three others are injured following an Army helicopter crash early Thursday morning in the training area at Fort Polk, La., according to base officials.

Afghans are preparing to vote this weekend in their country’s fourth presidential election since U.S.-led forces ousted the Taliban in 2001, amid threats of violence from insurgent groups.

The first evacuation flight of African refugees and asylum-seekers from wretched Libyan detention centers was expected to arrive in Rwanda on Thursday in an unusual new effort to divert and care for people who failed to reach Europe.

A federal grand jury in Kansas has indicted an Army soldier on charges that he distributed explosives information and threatened to set fire to a home.

A three-judge panel at the U.S. Appeals Court for the 9th Circuit will hear briefs in December from Rep. Duncan Hunter's argument to dismiss the corruption case against him.

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the threat posed by Iran, and Britain's fraught exit from the European Union were likely topics Thursday during a third day of speeches at the United Nations. Leaders from countries struggling with war, poverty and inequality also were having their say before the world body.

An Air Force investigation report paints a chaotic scene when emergency responders in August 2018 searched Wright-Patterson Medical Center during a false report of an active shooter.

The pillowy white foam was known to be an effective suppressant, blanketing raging fires with cooling chemicals. For years, firefighters at Fort Worth’s Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base would spray the foam in a number of emergency and non-emergency situations — from plane crashes, to smaller fires, to training exercises.

Marine Corps Air Station Miramar’s annual air show returns for its 64th season Friday through Sunday with top-flight civilian and military aircraft, including the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration squadron.

The U.S. Army picked Lockheed Martin’s plant in suburban Syracuse for a contract worth up to $3 billion to build its next generation of radars for short-range air defenses, Pentagon and government officials told Syracuse.com.

A list of U.S. Army soldiers who have been selected for promotion to the rank of sergeant, as of October 1, 2019.

Justin Desmond Carr, 19, an airman stationed at Schriever Air Force Base, was arrested Tuesday night after police say he tried to lure a 14-year-old girl he met online to have sex with him.