Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) sailed west through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Atlantic Ocean on Tuesday, according to ship spotters and confirmed by a defense official. Gerald R.
The new destroyer is named for longtime Alaska senator Ted Stevens, a strong supporter of the US Navy and Marine Corps and an unintentional early Internet icon.
The U.S. military has reactivated a Cold War-era naval base in Puerto Rico and deployed thousands of troops to the Caribbean as tensions with Venezuela escalate, marking the largest American military ...