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Official: Trump to Attend the Army-Navy Game at West Point

December 8, 2020
President Donald J. Trump walks across Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 14, 2019, during the 120th Army-Navy Game. (Erik Estrada/U.S. Marine Corps) ANNAPOLIS, Md. — President Donald Trump is scheduled to attend this weekend’s Army–Navy football game in New York, the U.S. Naval Academy‘s athletic director said Monday. The game on Saturday at the U.S. Military…
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Citing littoral combat ship failures, Congress pushes the US Navy to get FFG(X) right

December 5, 2020
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Navy will have to set up a land-based testing site for the engineering plant destined for its new Constellation-class frigate program, according to a provision in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act on President Trump’s desk. The frigate program, lately known as FFG(X), includes a propulsion system that hasn’t been used before in the Navy, which Congressional…
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Defense Business Board members replaced with Trump loyalists

December 5, 2020
WASHINGTON — Nine members of the Defense Business Board, an advisory panel of outside experts for the Defense Department, have been replaced, the Pentagon announced Friday. Among the newcomers are loyalists to President Donald Trump, Some of the incoming DBB members are…
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Sanctioning Turkey over the S-400 would be mandatory in new defense bill

December 4, 2020
WASHINGTON ― The final version of the must-pass annual defense policy bill unveiled Thursday mandates the U.S. president sanction Turkey for its acquisition of the S-400 air missile defense system. Though President Donald Trump has held off sanctioning Turkey for the purchase under the 2017 Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, or CAATSA, the defense bill would order that…
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Israeli Navy welcomes new generation of German-made warships

December 4, 2020
HAIFA, Israel — Israel’s Navy on Wednesday welcomed the first of four German-made warships that will be at the vanguard of the country’s efforts to protect its coastline and growing natural gas industry. The first missile boat of “Project Magen” docked at…
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Italian Air Force to double pilot training intake with move to Mediterranean island

December 3, 2020
ROME – Italy is close to opening a new pilot finishing school on a Mediterranean island where expanded air space will allow it to double its current intake, with a majority of students coming from overseas militaries. Now based at Galatina air base in the southern heel of Italy, students in the final, Phase 4 stage of flight training will move to Decimomannu air base on the Italian island of…
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