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U.S. Pacific Command on Tuesday said the remains of some of the American sailors missing from the USS John S. McCain have been found -- a day after the warship collided with a merchant vessel off Singapore's coast.
U.S. Navy Adm. Scott Swift said "some" sailors were found by military divers who searched flooded compartments of the ship at Singapore's Changi Naval Base early Tuesday.
Swift also said the Malaysian Navy has located "potential" remains.
Navy finds some sailors' remains in flooded USS John S. McCain
10 missing after US Navy destroyer collides with merchant ship off Singapore
There were 10 sailors missing and five injured, the Navy said. "Four of the injured were medically evacuated by a Republic of Singapore navy Puma helicopter to a hospital in Singapore for non-life-threatening injuries," the U.S. Navy said in a statement. "The fifth injured sailor does not require further medical attention."
U.S. soldier killed in Afghan blast, 20 U.S., Afghan troops wounded
One U.S. soldier was killed and around 20 U.S. and Afghan troops were wounded during a push against Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday, as Washington wrestled with a months-long debate about the 16-year-old war.
The incident late on Wednesday in Nangarhar province came as several Pentagon officials visited Afghanistan, including Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson and the top generals of the Army and Air Force.
Army Black Hawk chopper carrying 5 missing off Hawaii coast
The U.S. Army and Coast Guard are investigating a downed military Black Hawk helicopter off the Hawaii coast, authorities said Wednesday.
The Army UH-60 helicopter, with five people aboard, was reported down two miles west of Kaena Point on the island of Oahu.
Two U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq
Trump’s Nuclear Weapons Arsenal Isn’t Any Different Than Obama’s
President Donald Trump says the U.S. nuclear arsenal has been beefed up since he took office in January. Not quite.
As the world digested the president’s remarks on Tuesday threatening to unleash “fire and fury” on North Korea, Trump said in a tweet Wednesday, “My first order as President was to renovate and modernize our nuclear arsenal. It is now far stronger and more powerful than ever before... ”
US Army forbids use of Chinese-made drones also flown by IDF
The American military ordered its units to stop using a small, off-the-shelf drone last week, over concerns that the system, made by the Chinese company DJI and also employed by the IDF, was vulnerable to cyberattacks.
According to an internal US Army memo that was leaked on August 2 to sUAS News site, which focuses on drone technology, American troops were ordered to “cease all use, uninstall all DJI applications, remove all batteries/storage media from the devices, and secure equipment for follow on direction.”
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