Teams of sailors wielding rubber assault rifles stormed a park on this U.S. naval base in Japan and battled a group of pretend intruders in a mock gun battle, one part of a much larger exercise by the Japan Self-Defense Force and U.S. Navy.
Rear Admiral Carl Lahti graduated from Niagara-Wheatfield High School in 1985. He returned to his Alma Mater for what the Navy calls an "EEV" or Executive Engagement Visit.
ABOARD AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN, OFF THE COAST OF HAWAII – When aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) pulls into Naval Air Station North Island on Thursday, it will cap off a busy deployment to the Western Pacific. Lincoln’s deployment saw the carrier largely operating in U.S. 7th Fleet, where it had the chance […]
Junichiro Koizumi, prime minister from April 2001 to September 2006, was moved to tears remembering U.S. sailors’ service to his country 11 years ago during the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.