Twenty years ago, suicide terrorists exploded a small boat alongside the USS Cole—a Navy Destroyer—as it was refueling in a port in Yemen. The blast ripped a 40-by-60 foot hole near the waterline of the Cole, killing 17 American sailors […]
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Chicago’s gang violence is legendary and widely reported on– but not so much what’s driving it, which is the movement of illegal drugs from Mexico into the US through Arizona, and then through a pipeline to Chicago, which is a
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And now our Full Measure investigation into the state of the U.S. Navy, which is seen as the best and most powerful sea force in the world. But back-to-back tragedies in 2017 provided a disturbing window into some critical weaknesses
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After back to back tragedies in 2017, Navy commanders and crew were charged with negligent homicide. In the end, the double disasters exposed fleet wide weaknesses.
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Back-to-back fatal collisions of two U.S. Navy destroyers in 2017 prompted a blame game that let to a fleet wide review of naval readiness. Sunday on Full Measure, I’ll have an exclusive television interview with one of the ship commanders
