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Navy’s return to frigates begins with construction start of $1.3 billion Constellation The Navy wants to add a total of 20 frigates, which are planned for use in blue water and along the coasts, and which have more armor and firepower than the much-maligned littoral combat ships. Read more >

US, South Korea wrap up their first large-scale live-fire exercise amid drill season American and South Korean troops of the combined 2nd Infantry Division wrapped up the allies’ first coordinated, division-level live-fire exercise. Read more >

US Army not bound by new energy-saving measures in Germany Army garrisons in Germany will not be bound by new German government measures to conserve energy but will attempt to make cuts of their own amid concerns of a possible gas shortage this winter. Read more >   Fort Bragg moves 100 soldiers from mold-plagued barracks, plans to move 1,000 more by month’s end The Army has now moved about 204 soldiers out of uninhabitable barracks in the installation’s Smoke Bomb Hill area. Read more >   Residents are less happy with Army family housing, survey finds Army families’ satisfaction with base housing dropped this year, regardless of whether the soldier was renting from the government or a private landlord, according to survey results released Thursday. Read more >

PETA calls for Navy to end ‘horrific’ decompression sickness testing on sheep  A leading animal rights group is calling on Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to force the Navy to stop conducting painful and often lethal decompression sickness tests on sheep. Read more >   US service members in Germany face chronic child care backlog As of early August, Army and Air Force child development centers in the Kaiserslautern Military Community could handle only about 65% of demand. And one of the 11 centers is closed because staffing levels never came back to pre-pandemic levels. Read more >   Supporters of Navy officer jailed in Japan hope Biden administration will ‘right a wrong’ Supporters of a Navy officer serving three years in a Japanese prison gathered outside U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s front gate to protest what they believe is an unfair sentence. Read more >   Taiwan agrees to buy four American-made naval surveillance drones for $555 million The first of four MQ-9B SeaGuardians is scheduled to be delivered to Taiwan in 2025. Read more >   4 families are first to file federal lawsuit over Navy’s fuel-tainted water in Hawaii Four families claiming a host of maladies arising from exposure to petroleum-tainted Navy tap water in Hawaii filed suit in federal court. Read more >   Navy veteran builds, launches smartphone game inspired by life at sea When Christian Fager ended his naval career, he created a smartphone game based on his six years as a Navy petty officer aboard guided-missile destroyers. Read more >

 

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