Navy boot camp graduation from Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Illinois, April 7, 2023. Transcript Yeah. As the parade of graduates approaches, we salute the states and territories whose sons and daughters will graduate today, Delaware must go. New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina. You capture Virginia, North Carolina, Vermont Kentucky, Tennessee. Oh […]

On Saturday, April 1st 2023, the Navy commissioned USS Santa Barbara (LCS32) at a ceremony aboard Naval Station Ventura County. She is the 16th Independence class variant of the Littoral Combat Ship. (Contains graphics and titles.) Transcript Welcome. My name is Commander Brian Sparks. I am the commanding officer of the USS Santa Barbara, originally […]

Tornado Strikes National Guard Training Center, Sea Girt, New Jersey, April 1, 2023. (Courtesy video) Exterior security camera footage shows the front of Building 66/68 during the National Weather Service-confirmed tornado which struck the area between 7:46-7:51 p.m., April 1, 2023.

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken press availability in Brussels, Belgium, April 5, 2023. Transcript I Well, good afternoon, everyone. Um It’s always good to be back in Belgium and Brussels at the NATO headquarters, which has become almost a home away from home. But this week, uh these last two days, this has genuinely […]

. John F. Plumb, assistant secretary of defense for space policy and principal cyber advisor to the secretary of defense, and Army Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, commander of U.S. Cyber Command, testify before a House subcommittee about military operations in cyberspace and building cyber capabilities across the Defense Department. Their testimony is at a hearing […]