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May- 2020 -

21 May

A line of Navy T-44C Pegasus' parked on the flightline aboard Naval Air Station Corpus Christi on July 23, 2019, in Texas

Texas Navy Base Locked Down in Shooting Incident

A U.S. Navy base in Texas went on lockdown Thursday after shots were fired by an unidentified person, but no injuries were reported, the Navy said. Security forces at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, where both U.S. and foreign military personnel undergo flight training, responded to an “active shooter” at about 6:15 am local time, said Fifi Kieschnick, a spokesperson for the base. “The shooter has been neutralized,” she said. One service member originally reported as injured “is okay,” she said, but the base remained on lockdown two hours after the incident. It came five months after a Saudi air force student with al-Qaeda ties opened fire at a U.S. Navy air base in Florida, killing three U.S. sailors and injuring eight others. On Monday, U.S. law enforcement officials said the Florida shooter had radicalized at least five years ago and planned to undertake an attack before he arrived in the United States for military training. Since then tougher rules have been set to prevent the thousands of foreign military trainees in the United States each year from accessing firearms, and to conduct more thorough background checks on them.

Apr- 2020 -

24 April

Jared Szuba

Coronavirus outbreak hits second US Navy ship at sea

A US Navy destroyer deployed off Mexico's western coast is the second American warship at sea to suffer an outbreak of coronavirus onboard

13 April

Jared Szuba

USS Theodore Roosevelt sailor dies from COVID-19 complications

A sailor from the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the US Navy aircraft carrier taken out of rotation due to a coronavirus outbreak onboard, has died

10 April

Staff Writer With AFP

Canada to resume light armored vehicle exports to Saudi Arabia

Sale of the light armored vehicles was on hold since 2018 over kingdom's role in the war in Yemen and murder of journalist Kashoggi

Mar- 2020 -

17 March

Jared Szuba

US Navy readies hospital ships ahead of Coronavirus wave

The US Navy is preparing to deploy its two hospital ships – USNS Mercy and USNS Comfort – to relieve pressure on hospitals caused by COVID-19

16 March

Vehicle decontaminated ahead of DEFENDER-Europe 20

Jared Szuba

Here’s how the US military is preparing for COVID-19

The US military is adopting broader measures to protect personnel from the global coronavirus pandemic. Here are the latest updates.

16 March

Staff Writer With AFP

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US Navy reports first suspected shipboard coronavirus case on USS Boxer

The US Navy reported its first suspected case of the new coronavirus aboard a ship, saying a sailor on the USS Boxer had tested positive for the disease

11 March

Jared Szuba

US-Brazil defense cooperation could help counter China’s space ambitions, general says

A US-Brazil defense research agreement offers the US a leg up over China's space infrastructure ambitions in the Western Hemisphere, SOUTHCOM commander Admiral Craig Faller said

4 March