Wed, 1 May 2024 Magnolia Mornings: April 29, 2024 Important state and national stories, market and business news, sports and entertainment, delivered in quick-hit fashion: In Mississippi | 1. Vicksburg native assumes command of Naval Consolidated Brig | Naval Consolidated Brig Charleston held a change of command cerem... | Amphibious assault ship USS Boxer is out of action, and it's a problem, top Marine ... The amphibious assault ship USS Boxer transits the East Sea during Exercise Ssang Yong 2016 March 8, 2016. | REUTERS/U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Craig Z. Rodarte/Handout via ReutersUSS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship, is undergoing repairs, causing ... | Next-generation aircraft carrier launches trials China has launched sea trials for the Fujian, its third and most advanced aircraft carrier, state media has reported. | The start of tests came nearly two years after the aircraft carrier was unveiled in June 2022. | The Fujian, entirely designed and built domestically,... | Troubled amphibious assault ship USS Boxer will undergo repairs in San Diego (Tribune News Service) — The Navy said Wednesday it will repair the troubled amphibious assault ship USS Boxer at Naval Station San Diego and might be able to get the vessel to resume its deployment to the Indo-Pacific as early as this summer. | The ship was forced to... | The shocking history of UFOs and nuclear weapons UFOs are no laughing matter on Capitol Hill. Beyond alleging the existence of surreptitious government programs to retrieve and reverse-engineer exotic craft of "non-human" origin, Congress mandated that the Department of Defense document and report any UFO incidents "a... | Following an Honor Flight, a mission, and a life, completed WATERTOWN, N.Y. (Tribune News Service) — Navy veteran David E. Bulterman was having the time of his life on Saturday in Washington, D.C., during an Honor Flight trip when two children approached him at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. | “They said, ‘Thank you for yo... | Russell Leo DeSpain, 100 Russell Leo DeSpain, 100, of Elizabethtown, passed away, Thursday, April 18, 2024, at Sunrise Manor Nursing Home in Hodgenville. | He was born December 9, 1923, in Howardstown. He was a member of Hardin County First United Baptist Church and retired from Firestone in El... | The US Navy wants a lot more of a missile that just recently scored its ... An SM-3 Block 1B interceptor missile is launched from the guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie during a Missile Defense Agency and US Navy test in the Pacific Ocean. | US Navy photoThe US Navy used its SM-3 missile interceptor in combat for the first time last month.Now... | China’s New Aircraft Carrier Heads to Sea for First Trials China’s massive new aircraft carrier named Fujian set sail this morning, May 1, on its first sea trials after more than six years of construction. China’s PLA Navy issued a brief statement confirming that the vessel departed shortly after 8:00 local time fro... | | |
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