Here's how Congress saved the Navy fleet this year
House lawmakers this week voted for legislation that will let America field 10 additional ships and dramatically scaled back the Navy’s...
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AUSN Staff
- Jul 13, 2022
- 2 min
Let them eat fake: Navy gets stuck with plant-based protein
For some Navy Sailors, serving overseas will soon mean servings of fake meat. The House on Thursday night passed the annual defense...
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AUSN Staff
- Jul 6, 2022
- 3 min
Pentagon’s recruiting failure raises national security fears
What started as a personnel shortage may be turning into a full-blown national security crisis for America. The Pentagon has struggled...
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AUSN Staff
- Jun 16, 2022
- 1 min
AUSN helps save a piece of history with donation to USS The Sullivans
The military park that cares for the USS The Sullivans, a Fletcher-class destroyer that saw action in World War II and Korea, thanked the...
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AUSN Staff
- Jun 14, 2022
- 2 min
Del Toro censures Navy, Marine officers for deadly training accident
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro this week issued formal letters of censure to three Marine Corps officers and two Navy officers for...
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AUSN Staff
- Jun 8, 2022
- 3 min
Congress fights Navy plan to decommission ships
Congressional lawmakers this week started chipping away at the Navy’s unpopular plan to shrink the fleet by decommissioning ships....
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AUSN Staff
- May 18, 2022
- 2 min
Cutting amphibious ships means ‘risk’ for Marine Corps
A senior Marine warned Congress on Wednesday that the Biden administration’s plan to reduce the number of amphibious warships will make...
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AUSN Staff
- May 11, 2022
- 3 min
Navy defends push to decommission dozens of ships
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told Congress this week that the Navy has no choice but to decommission 24 ships because they...
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AUSN Staff
- May 10, 2022
- 2 min
CNO Gilday drops ‘woke’ books from Navy reading list
Chief of Naval Operations Michael Gilday last week released a new list of books from his professional reading list that no longer...
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AUSN Staff
- Apr 21, 2022
- 4 min
Lessons from the Moskva: Russia failed to adapt to modern warfare
Ukraine’s ability to hit the flagship Russian cruiser Moskva and send it to the bottom of the Black Sea was widely seen as a major event...
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AUSN Staff
- Apr 20, 2022
- 2 min
Navy warns Congress: Fleet stays flat without funding
The Navy this week released a new long-term shipbuilding plan that outlines three possible ways forward – two of which keep the fleet...
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AUSN Staff
- Apr 18, 2022
- 2 min
Workers scramble to rescue WWII-era destroyer USS The Sullivans
A destroyer that fought in World War II and the Korean War is now at risk of sinking at a military park in upstate New York. The USS The...
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AUSN Staff
- Mar 23, 2022
- 2 min
Republicans say bigger defense budget needed to fend off inflation
House and Senate Republicans told President Biden this week that rising inflation will put U.S. military readiness at risk unless he...
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AUSN Staff
- Mar 22, 2022
- 3 min
Russian navy massing in the Black Sea in fourth week of Ukraine invasion
More than a dozen Russian warships are thought to be shelling the Ukrainian city of Odesa from the northern Black Sea, according to U.S....
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AUSN Staff
- Mar 17, 2022
- 2 min
Navy Reserve officer charged with taking bribes to fake Afghan visas
A Navy Reserve officer accepted bribes from more than 20 Afghans between 2018 and 2020, and in returned falsely verified that they acted...
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AUSN Staff
- Feb 24, 2022
- 2 min
U.S., Russian navies jockey for position as Ukraine invasion unfolds
Russian forces on Thursday launched their long-anticipated attack against Ukraine, and while President Biden has said no U.S. troops...
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AUSN Staff
- Feb 21, 2022
- 3 min
Analysis: Breaking down CNO Gilday’s call for a 500-ship Navy
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday said last week he wants the Navy to be at least 500 ships strong, a comment that...
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AUSN Staff
- Feb 16, 2022
- 2 min
Pentagon spent nearly 6 million hours on extremism, diversity, equity, inclusion under Biden
The Biden administration has used nearly 5.4 million man hours developing and deploying a program to eliminate political extremism in the...
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AUSN Staff
- Feb 10, 2022
- 3 min
Rep. Elaine Luria, Sen. Roger Wicker receive AUSN’s 2021 National Legislative Advocacy Award
AUSN this week presented two important supporters of the U.S. Navy with its Legislative Advocacy Award for 2021. Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA)...
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AUSN Member
- Feb 8, 2022
- 1 min
Navy investigating leaked video showing F-35 crash in the South China Sea
The Navy is trying to figure out who leaked a video of last month’s “landing mishap” in the South China Sea, where an F-35 tried...
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