The U.S. Navy has sent destroyers, a submarine, and amphibious ships toward Venezuela, marking one of the largest American ...

Greg Quinn The USS Gerald R Ford, the largest aircraft carrier in the world, and its Carrier Strike Group has joined the ...

The U.S. military has steadily amassed troops, naval and air assets in the Caribbean Sea to strike alleged drug traffickers.

Venezuela’s air defenses are old and ill-maintained, but state militias are well-armed, and a guerrilla campaign could erupt.

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

The USS Iwo Jima (LPH-2) was the first amphibious assault ship specifically designed as a helicopter carrier, capable of ...

U.S. national security requires three deployed ARG/MEUs, Marine Corps commandant argues in Defense One. That’s Amphibious Ready Groups and Marine Expeditionary Units, like the one built around the ...

These are the approximate positions of the U.S. Navy’s deployed carrier strike groups and amphibious ready groups throughout ...

It was deployed to support Operation Southern Spear. The ship is the first of a new class of aircraft carriers being built ...

They are part of the Greatest Generation and survivors of one of the bloodiest battles in U.S. history. As their numbers diminish with each passing year, eight veterans of the Battle of Iwo Jima ...

Born in 1926 in New Orleans, Charles Calvin Holdeman Jr. grew up through the Great Depression, waiting in soup lines and packing his shoes with cardboard when they wore thin. At 17, with World War II ...

It was Feb. 19, 1945, off the Pacific island of Iwo Jima. There had been a tremendous bombardment from Navy ships pounding the island with artillery. Mike had spent most of the night watching the ...