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USS Illinois: The Forgotten Iowa-Class Battleship the Navy Never Finished

The USS Illinois (BB-65) was conceived as a tougher follow-on to the Iowa class and first of the planned Montana-type heavy ...

Navy commissions the USS Pierre, last Independence-class littoral combat ship

The ship is the 19th and final Independence-class littoral combat ship, and the second to last of the troubled ships to enter ...

Navy secretary says it's hard to get workers to want to build warships if they get paid what they might make at Buc-ee's or Amazon

Phelan said it's hard to entice workers for hard jobs like welding when the pay is comparable to a job at a Buc-ees truck ...
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Navy Drops $2B on ‘Unsexy’ Ships That Win Wars

Valued at approximately $1.7 billion, the contract is for two new oilers, T-AO 215 and T-AO 216. The contract is part of General Dynamics’ multi-ship arrangement with the Navy that allows for the ...

China Slams US As Warships Approach Venezuela

The warning comes as U.S. warships operate just miles off Venezuela’s coast, some as close as 13 miles, underscoring the ...

Navy Secretary warns workers can make more at Amazon instead of building America’s warships: ‘It’s hard to get that person to want to do that job’

Convincing workers to spend their days welding at a shipyard, when they could earn a similar amount of money working behind ...
The County

Country Village celebrates ships named for Madawaska

On Oct. 13, the U.S. Navy’s 250th birthday, Country Village Estates celebrated by adding pictures of ships named after ...

WWII veteran reunites with Battleship Texas to celebrate his 101st birthday

"It's giving me chills just seeing the ship again," the 101-year-old veteran said as he sat before the ship. "I'm looking at ...