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Alexander P. Armatas is a naval aviator in the United States Navy. He is the flight leader and commanding officer of the Blue Angels , an elite fighter jet flight demonstration squadron. Armatas graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 2002 and was the commander of Strike Fighter Squadron 105 , also known as the "Gunslingers".
VAQ-138 was established as an operational squadron in February 1976 and made its first deployment aboard USS Saratoga to the Mediterranean Sea. The squadron completed three more deployments to the Mediterranean Sea aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and USS John F. Kennedy during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Following the Mediterranean/Indian ...
Edward R. Gallagher (born May 29, 1979) [1] is a retired United States Navy SEAL. He came to national attention in the United States after he was charged in September 2018 with ten offenses under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. In the most prominently reported offense, he was accused of fatally stabbing an injured 17-year-old ISIS ...
On January 12, 2016, two United States Navy riverine command boats were seized by Iran 's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy after they entered Iranian territorial waters near Iran's Farsi Island in the Persian Gulf. Initially, the U.S. military claimed the sailors inadvertently entered Iranian waters owing to mechanical failure, but ...
The Washington Navy Yard shooting occurred on September 16, 2013, when 34-year-old Aaron Alexis fatally shot 12 people and injured three others in a mass shooting at the headquarters of the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) inside the Washington Navy Yard in southeast Washington, D.C. The attack took place in the Navy Yard's Building 197; it ...
VFA-213 resumed combat operations on 23 March 2017 from the Persian Gulf until 22 May 2017. In January 2018, VFA-213 participated in the initial flight deck certification for the US Navy's newest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford. On 14 March 2018, a Super Hornet from VFA-213 crashed near Key West killing the pilot and naval flight officer.
USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) is the fourth Nimitz -class, nuclear-powered, aircraft carrier in the United States Navy. She is named in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States and a proponent of naval power. She is the fourth ship named in honor of Theodore Roosevelt, three bearing his full name and a fourth with ...
A total of 13 commanding officers have been fired so far this year, including 12 in the Navy and one in the Marine Corps, the Navy said. The Navy has fired a dozen leaders but won't explain why ...