He was a senior writer covering personnel, cultural and historical issues. A nine-year active duty Navy veteran, Faram served from to as a Navy Diver and photographer.
Your Navy. By Mark D. Mar 25, Personnel Specialist Seaman Samantha Braband acts as the master helmsman aboard the guided-missile destroyer Carney as the crew leaves Naval Station Rota on patrol Saturday.
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Retired four-star tapped to lead Navy League think tank Retired Adm. Now, with Mattis as Trump's newly appointed secretary of defense, the tensions may increase. Like Russia and China, Iran has invested in missile technology as a hedge against its arch enemy, the U.
The danger posed from Iran comes from both their missiles and its small submarine fleet. Iran has three Russian Kilo-class diesel subs and about a dozen minisubs, all of which can be very difficult to find in the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf.
If a helicopter takes off from the back of a destroyer in the Gulf, its crew can, in places, see the shore on either side of their fuselage.
That cramped environment makes for a fast and deadly fight that could consume the entire region within minutes of conflict breaking out. So a fight with Iran would mean a go-for-broke offensive to cripple the U. For its part, Iran is going to try and wipe out the Navy and everything on the west side of the Gulf. The good news for the U. The rogue North Korean regime is plowing ahead with its missile technology and already may be able to target U. Even more frightening, the government of Kim Jong Un is closer than it has ever been to developing a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the homeland.
All this is on top of a 1. North Korea has long been more bark than bite when it comes to declarations of impending military conflict, but its developing capabilities have commanders more worried than ever about the threat North Korea poses.
When asked about what threat gives him the most concern, U. Pacific Command head Adm. Harry Harris invariably says North Korea. Harris often describes the threat from China as more of a long-term challenge. Armed with high-tech ballistic missile defense capabilities, as well as advanced Standard Missiles capable of intercepting the missiles, U. On Feb. The missile was fired from a Navy test range in Hawaii and was detected and shot down by the destroyer John Paul Jones, which is based in Pearl Harbor.
These tests often serve dual functions: dialing in U. BMD technology and warning North Korea against a launch. But operating in and around South Korea could be a problem, particularly for U. North Korean minisubs patrolling the area nearer land could be a deadly problem for the U.
In , the lethality of the North Korean minisub threat became clear when it sank the South Korea corvette Cheonan during the annual joint U. The Bab-el-Mandeb. The fact that sailors have already had full-on missile battles with Yemeni rebels near this global choke-point makes the Bab-el-Mandeb, or the BAM, an obvious pick for the most dangerous place in the world where sailors are deploying.
The Gate of Tears is the maritime equivalent of the Wild West. Yemen is a failed state in the grip of a bloody civil war that has roped in both Saudi Arabia and to a lesser degree, the United States. But spillover from the conflict, as well as meddling from Iran, has made the waters around Yemen extremely dangerous. Those waterways are vital and serve as the primary route for ships moving from the East Coast of the U.
Any disruption of trade moving through the Bab-el-Mandeb would roil global markets and threaten the U. The news that the Yemeni rebels had their hands on drone boats and C missiles such as the one used on the Mason means the danger in the region to shipping is reaching crisis levels. Navy to stand up to Iranian-sponsored threats to freedom of navigation.
Part of the mission is to try and draw out the threat and see what else the rebels might have, officials tell Navy Times, which means sailors are deliberately staring down the barrel and practically daring the rebels to strike. Another ship set the record for most consecutive days spent at sea last month. The guided-missile cruiser Vella Gulf recently clocked days at sea. The aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower 's crew was at sea for straight days. Being at sea for about seven months without a port call is likely a record many Navy crews would rather not set.
But after the illness caused by the novel coronavirus spread rapidly through one crew following a port call in Vietnam, leaders have reined in stops that could leave sailors vulnerable during the global pandemic.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday told NBC News in a recent interview that he's concerned the situation could lead to sailor burnout. The Navy will likely need to adjust operating schedules as ships have to stay at sea longer to complete back-to-back training and deployments without leave to prevent exposure to COVID, the CNO told the network.
Everybody needs a break every once in a while, and I do think that the toughest challenge The ship remained in the Middle East when the rest of the strike group headed back to the U.
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