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US Navy sailor's mom encouraged him to pass military details to China, prosecutor says
A San Diego sailor accused of selling military secrets to a Chinese intelligence officer is due in court Tuesday for a hearing to determine whether he will remain in custody.
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2 US Navy sailors arrested on charges tied to national security and China
U.S. officials say two Navy sailors have been arrested on charges related to national security and ties to China. Federal officials said at a news conference Thursday that 22-year-old sailor Jinchao Wei was arrested on a charge related to espionage involving conspiracy to send national defense information to Chinese officials. The indictment says Wei made contact with a Chinese government...
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Search Underway for 3 American Sailors Who Disappeared Near Mexico Coast
The Mexican Navy, with help from the U.S. Coast Guard, are searching for three American sailors who were last heard from on April 4 traveling near Mazatlán, Mexico, to San Diego.
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Instead of Deployment to Japan, Noah Song Resumes Baseball Journey With Phillies
Noah Song’s military status change went through earlier this week, allowing the 25-year-old pitcher to show up at Phillies’ spring training in Clearwater.
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Navy Pilot From Mass. Part of Historic All-Female Flyover at Super Bowl
Lt. Jacqueline Drew, a 2009 graduate of St. Mark’s School in Southborough, Massachusetts, was part of the history-making jet crew that performed the Super Bowl flyover at State Farm Stadium
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Waltham Native Part of Super Bowl Flyover
Lt. Jacqueline Drew, a Navy pilot from Waltham, Massachusetts, will be part of the flyover before Super Bowl LVII. Drew is part of a historic all-female flyover during Sunday’s national anthem.
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4 Navy Sailors Assigned to Same Facility Die by Apparent Suicide Within Weeks, Amid Growing Concerns of Mental Health Crisis
It is the latest cluster of Navy suicides this year to spark concerns of a fleetwide mental health crisis.
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WATCH: Two Navy Ships Narrowly Avoid Head-On Crash in San Diego Bay
Two US Navy ships — USS Momsen and USS Harpers Ferry — came a little too close for comfort Tuesday morning as they passed each other in San Diego Bay.
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Sailor From Mass. Who Died at Pearl Harbor to Be Buried at Arlington
The remains of a sailor from Massachusetts who died when the USS Oklahoma capsized during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 are being buried at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. The interment comes nearly four years after the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced that Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Roman W. Sadlowski had been accounted for following advanced DNA...
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Fat Leonard's Escape as Stunning as His Navy Bribery Case
The escape of the Malaysian defense contractor at the center of one of the Navy’s biggest corruption scandals is as stunning and brazen as the case itself. U-Haul trucks were seen at his home in a tony San Diego neighborhood before Leonard Glenn Francis, known as “Fat Leonard,” snipped off his ankle monitor and disappeared.
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Navy Identifies Sailor Found Dead on USS Carl Vinson
The sailor’s mysterious death occurred while the aircraft carrier was docked
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After 2 Military Aircraft Crashes in a Week, Navy to Conduct ‘Safety Pause'
As a direct result of the recent U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft crashes, Navy officials directed all non-deployed Navy aviation units Saturday to hold a safety pause on June 13 to look over risk-management practices and train personnel on threat and error-management processes.
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Mechanical Failure Caused Deadly Helicopter Crash Off California Coast, Navy Finds
A command investigation determined that a damper hose failed on the MC-60S Seahawk, causing severe vibrations as the aircraft was landing on a carrier off of San Diego last August.
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Navy Ship to Be Named After Late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The future John Lewis-class replenishment oiler will be the eighth such vessel to be named for a historic figure who fought for civil and human rights.
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1 Dead, 2 Rescued After US Navy Plane Crashes Off Virginia Coast
Two injured people were rescued by the U.S. Coast Guard and one was found dead in the aircraft, U.S. Navy E2-D Hawkeye, an official said.