Tag: U.S. Navy
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Navy apologies for destroying Alaska Native village in 1882
Navy apologies for destroying Alaska Native village in 1882 – CBS News Watch CBS News The U.S. Navy issued an apology Saturday for destroying an Alaska Native village nearly 150 years ago. The 1882 attack in Angoon killed six children and caused such dire food shortages that villagers starved themselves so children could eat. Be…
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Navy issues apology for destroying Alaska Native village in 1882
Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that elders sacrificed their own lives to spare food for surviving children. It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village…
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Remains of crew members in crashed U.S. Navy jet found near Washington’s Mount Rainier, Navy says
The remains of the two crew members in a U.S. Navy jet that crashed near Mount Rainier in Washington state have been found, the Navy announced Sunday afternoon. “It is with a heavy heart that we share the loss of two beloved Zappers,” said Cmdr. Timothy Warburton, commanding officer of the aviators’ Electronic Attack Squadron, in…
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Commander of U.S. Navy destroyer relieved of duty months after embarrassing rifle scope photo
The commander of a Navy destroyer that’s helping protect the San Diego-based aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Middle East has been relieved of duty about four months after he was seen in a photo firing a rifle with a scope mounted backward. The image brought the Navy considerable ridicule on social media. The…