Navy to sideline 17 vessels due to manpower shortage, operating crews will be redistributed: report
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Navy to sideline 17 vessels due to manpower shortage, operating crews will be redistributed: report

ByNews Polite

The Navy will reportedly sideline 17 vessels due to a manpower shortage that makes it difficult to properly crew and operate ships across the fleet.  There just aren’t enough Merchant Marines to keep all the ships going at once, according to Rear Admiral (Ret.) Mark Montgomery, senior director of the Center on…

Marine dead after vehicle rolls over during training exercise on California base: military officials
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Marine dead after vehicle rolls over during training exercise on California base: military officials

ByNews Polite

A Marine is dead after he was involved in a vehicle rollover during a training exercise on a California military base, officials said Sunday. The unidentified Marine was critically injured on Saturday when a high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicle flipped at the Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms,…

Marine Corps shutting down its elite scout sniper program
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Marine Corps shutting down its elite scout sniper program

ByNews Polite

The United States Marine Corps disbanded its elite and historic scout sniper program as part of its extensive revamp to adapt infantry battalions to future warfare. The age-old MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) has been around since World War II, and one nonprofit organization representing the renowned Scout Snipers is calling…

Biden tells boy to ‘go steal a pumpkin’ during ‘boring’ speech
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Biden tells boy to ‘go steal a pumpkin’ during ‘boring’ speech

ByNews Polite

President Biden on Monday told a boy that he could “go steal a pumpkin” to avoid his “boring” speech about Thanksgiving to Marine Corps members in North Carolina. Biden, 80, made the surprising stab at humor when he approached the eldest of four children whose Marine Corps mother had just…