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According to information published by the U.S. Department of Defense and official sources on August 4, 2025, the P-8A Poseidon, manufactured by Boeing, continues to solidify its role as the U.S. Navy’s most capable maritime patrol and reconnaissance platform. With escalating military tension in the Indo-Pacific, particularly in the South China Sea, Philippine Sea, and the Taiwan Strait, the aircraft has become an essential tool for force projection, early warning, and undersea warfare readiness in contested waters.
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By John Brady
In the fall of 1948, after three years in the Navy, I received orders to Cheltenham, Maryland where I became acquainted with the acronym SESP, short for “Special Electronic Search Project.” Before reporting to Cheltenham, we were put up in temporary buildings at West Potomac Park, right behind the Lincoln Memorial. This was a New Navy to me. There were no fences, no marine guards, you could go “ashore” any time you liked and there were no watches.
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On August 6, 2011, America suffered the single deadliest day of the Afghanistan War when a CH-47D Chinook helicopter—call sign Extortion 17—was shot down in the Tangi Valley of Wardak Province. All 38 souls aboard perished, including 30 American military personnel, one military working dog, and eight Afghans. Among the fallen were 17 members of the elite U.S. Navy SEALs, many from the renowned SEAL Team 6, the same unit credited with the mission that killed Osama bin Laden just months earlier.
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By Bruce Ames
1969 – I was a freshly minted mat-crank Third Class just graduated from KY-8/28 & KW-7 “C” schools at Portsmouth, Virginia Naval Shipyard with orders to proceed to California and then on to Saigon to await transportation to the USS JAMESTOWN (AGTR-3).
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The new commission was established by CSIS in partnership with the Cyber Solarium Commission 2.0 project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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