Sam LaGrone
Naval Reporter and Editor at USNI News
Naval reporter for @USNINews Fmr: @JanesINTEL , @newsobserver, @vmialumni Content ≠ any official @NavalInstitute stance on anything. [email protected]
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1 week ago |
news.usni.org | Heather Mongilio |Sam LaGrone
A group of 2,500 submarine workers is threatening to walk off the job over a contract dispute with General Dynamics Electric Boat, drawing in the president of one of the largest labor unions in the country to the negotiating table.
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1 week ago |
news.usni.org | Sam LaGrone
The Navy’s forward-deployed European and African sea base is back in the U.S. after almost five years and set for a maintenance period in Newport News, USNI News has learned. USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB-4) returned to the East Coast on Thursday after being stationed in Souda Bay, Greece, since 2020 and is set to begin a maintenance period, a Military Sealift Command spokesperson told USNI News on Monday.
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1 week ago |
news.usni.org | Sam LaGrone
Air Force Gen. Dan Caine was sworn in on Monday as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to press reports. Caine, 56, was confirmed by the Senate in an early Friday vote of 60 to 25. He was nominated shortly after President Donald Trump removed former chairman Gen. C.Q. Brown in February. A 1990 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, Caine served in the Air National Guard as an F-16 pilot who flew combat air patrols over Washington, D.C., after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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2 weeks ago |
news.usni.org | Sam LaGrone
A guided-missile destroyer was dispatched to patrol the Eastern Pacific on Friday, the Navy announced. USS Stockdale (DDG-106) left Naval Base San Diego, Calif., on Friday with an embarked Coast Guard law enforcement detachment. The patrol is part of U.S. Northern Command’s efforts in tandem with the Department of Homeland Security focus on the U.S. southern border.
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2 weeks ago |
news.usni.org | Sam LaGrone
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Newly minted Navy Secretary John Phelan pledged a shakeup of the Department of the Navy with a focus on growing shipbuilding and challenging parts of the Navy’s culture that have led to delays in deliveries of new capabilities and gaps in overall readiness.
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Caine was a VMI New Barracks cadet!
