Does Anyone Have Our Back In Caribbean?

Over the past several months, I have read much on this issue.  I feel that such a threat is real, and is not being addressed.  I am not one to live in fear, but I am one who remembers the air raid drills in...

India to chase pirates into Somali waters

Buoyed with its recent success in the Gulf Aden, the Indian Navy has been authorized for "hot pursuit" of pirates into Somali waters. Indian government has given navy permission to chase Somali pirates across...

Australian navy to get 62-day Christmas leave

Naval life is considered as tough assignments and there are not many takers for this in any country. Australian navy is coping with shortage of Nave personnel. They have devised a very good plan of giving two months off in order to make the job more attractive....

Somali pirates strike again, Indian Navy sinks a pirate vessel off Somali coast

Even as discussions are on about the fate of world's largest supertanker the Saudi Sirius Star, Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden  had seized a Hong Kong-registered cargo ship carrying 36,000 tonnes of wheat to...

Pirates seize Japanese cargo ship off Somalia

"SEOUL, South Korea - A South Korean foreign Ministry official says gunmen have hijacked a Japanese cargo ship carrying 23 crew, including five South Koreans, off the coast of Somalia.The condition and safety of the...

Two pirates shot dead in Royal Navy swoop

Two Arab pirates have been killed by the Uk Navy after a pirate ship opened fire on the Royal Navy boats off the coast of Somalia. A Yemeni national was also injured."Crew from a Royal Navy warship shot dead two Arab pirates after they tried to hijack another vessel, it...

US court rules in favour of Navy over whales

Before, the US was asking ships to cut their speed to save the whales, however now, the US court has ruled in favour of their Navy, and lifted the ban on the use of sonar in training exercises in California, which is...

Submarine in worst nuclear leak since 80s

It has been revealed that a a royal navy nuclear submarine from the UK had a leak of nuclear material on November 7, pouring liquid coolant into a river. Now questions are being raised as to why the Royal Navy kept quiet about the event."The Royal Navy is facing serious...

Accident on Russian NUCLEAR sub suffocates 20

"MOSCOW (AP) -- The fire safety system on a brand-new Russian nuclear submarine accidentally turned on as the sub was being tested in the Sea of Japan, spewing a gas that suffocated 20 people and sent 21 others...

Navy still trying to solve 11-year mystery

" Naval investigators have new images of a man found dead in the water at Naval Station Norfolk 11 years ago. They still don’t know who he is, though. “John Doe’s” body...

Troops patrol Thailand streets after deadly protests

Amidst the threat of  protestors to intensify their stir in the capital Bangkok today , there is no improvement in the situation in Thailand a day after two people died and over 400 were injured in the worst...

Navy releases name of sailor killed aboard Norfolk-based aircraft carrier

My ex-husband was on the Guadalcanal before they retired it. He was in Derest Storm back in 1992. He alos was a flight deck director for some years. I would hear of the stories of how the long days when they would go...

The Associated Press: US Navy says crew on hijacked ship off Somalia OK

" NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The crew on a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship laden with tanks and heavy weaponry appear to be in good health, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman said Monday. Lt. Stephanie Murdock, a 5th Fleet spokeswoman in Bahrain, said American officials are in regular...

Moscow joins war on piracy: Mogadishu, Somalia Update Oct 06-08

Update: Oct 06-08Barry Artiste Op/Ed The Pirates of Somalia, stating to the Superpowers that they will fight to the last man to hold off attacks from the Ukrainian ship they boarded, may not understand that if...

US Navy: 4 failed pirate attacks off Somali coast

Noel Choong, head of the International Maritime Bureau's Malaysian-based piracy reporting center, said 12 ships with more than 250 crew remained in the hands of pirates now " MANAMA, Bahrain: The U.S. Navy says...

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