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2d Amtrac Battalion Hangs Up its Tracks

Earlier this year, the Marines’ 2d Assault Amphibian Battalion received its first new 32-ton Amphibious Combat Vehicles. Based on the Italian Iveco SuperAV, the Marines plan to buy 632 of these big...

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Rock and Roll

A U.S. Navy Patrol Boat, Riverine (PBR) crewman mans his twin M2 Browning .50 caliber machine gun mount as the craft patrols the Vung Tau River in Vietnam on 14 April 1966, “in anticipation of trouble...

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Junk Force at 60

It happened some 60 years ago this month. Official caption: “Ensign Le Quy Dang, VNN, and Lieutenant Tylor Field, USN, look for suspicious fishing boats while Lieutenant (J.G.) Phu, Commanding Officer...

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Joker’s Wild

It happened 80 years ago today. Mindanao Operations, Philippines, 1945. Original period Kodachrome. Official caption: “PT boats speed through Polloc Harbor, Mindanao, while supporting landings there,...

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Last of the 110s

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Liberty prepares to moor at their homeport of Juneau, Alaska, March 13, 2018. The crew of the Cutter Liberty, a 110-foot patrol boat homeported in Juneau, Alaska, was...

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Sailing to surrender, again

Surrender of German High Seas Fleet, as seen from USS New York, 21 November 1918. Oil on canvas by Bernard F. Gribble, 1920. NH 58842-KN It happened 80 years ago today. Much like the internment of the...

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Leftovers

An M270 150mm gun salvaged from the scuttled Danish cruiser Niels Juel, emplaced by the Germans at Frederikshavn, seen under new management circa May 1945– a beret-clad Danish resistance member with a...

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And in Coast Guard News…

Lots of interesting stories from the USCG that have likely slipped through under the radar for most in the past couple of weeks. M4 profile, just the essentials The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Calhoun...

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SSNs and yellow drone submarines, coming to an ocean near you

Of course, they won’t be yellow when they get operational, but the Navy quietly marked a milestone in undersea warfare: the successful forward-deployed launch and recovery of the HHI Yellow Moray...

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Warship Wednesday, June 11, 2025: Germans to the front!

Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own,...

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