September 18, 2020 (Google Translation) – This afternoon, the Minister of Defense, Agustín Rossi, together with the Chief of the General Staff of the Navy, Rear Admiral Julio Horacio Guardia and the Chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces, Brigadier General Juan Martín Paleo, toured the transport ship ARA “Canal Beagle”, after having carried out general…
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L’Aigle Countermining Operations North of Cherbourg
September 18, 2020 (Google Translation) – The tripartite mine hunter (CMT) L ‘ Aigle has been deployed in the north of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin since September 12, 2020. The building intervenes within the framework of the security of the metropolitan maritime approaches, and in particular of the surveillance of the accesses of the main commercial ports, in order to permanently guarantee the…
Read MoreBook Review: The Greek Genocide in American Naval War Diaries
The Greek Genocide In American Naval War Diaries Naval Commanders Report and Protest Death Marches and Massacres in Turkey’s Pontus Region. 1921-1922 Edited by Robert Shenk and Sam Koktzoglou February 2020 404 pages Paperback 9781608011803 This book is a collection of American naval war diaries recently found in the National Archives about what was happening on the northern coast of…
Read MoreRoyal Navy Teams with US Coast Guard in Cocaine Bust
September 18, 2020 – A Royal Navy task group has landed a triple blow to drugs traffickers in the Caribbean after seizing cocaine that would be worth an estimated £81m on Britain’s streets. Sailors, Royal Marines and the US Coast Guard team on board support ship RFA Argus hauled 11 bales of cocaine weighing 358 kilograms in the first of…
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