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Navy deploys first LCS to replace wood-hulled minehunter in Bahrain
The littoral combat ship USS Canberra arrived at the U.S. naval base in Bahrain last week, the first of four new vessels ...
San Diego-based warship USS Canberra arrives in Bahrain for mine countermeasures
The Navy says the San Diego-based littoral combat ship USS Canberra has arrived in Bahrain, where it is the first of four ...
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Agreement allows US military dependents to work off base in Bahrain
Naval Support Activity Bahrain, home to U.S. Naval Forces Central Command and ... DOD-related visas if they want to work anywhere but on base. And in contrast with Germany and some other countries ...
AP PHOTOS: US Homeland Security Secretary Noem visits Middle East
During her trip to the Middle East, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visited a naval base in Bahrain, where she ...
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US Has No 'Plan B' for Bahrain Naval Base - Officer
WASHINGTON (AFP)--The U.S. military has failed to prepare a realistic "plan B" if political turmoil forces the closure of a vital naval base in Bahrain, a naval officer argues in a report released ...
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US naval drones have spent 60,000 hours at sea helping the Navy spy on and defeat malicious threats in Middle Eastern waters
Business Insider recently visited the task force's headquarters in Bahrain. Inside a massive warehouse located at a US Navy base in Bahrain, a tiny island country in the Persian Gulf, there are ...
KBR Awarded $476M Base Operations Support Contract in Djibouti
KBR (NYSE: KBR) announced today it has been awarded a firm fixed price, $476M contract by the U.S. Navy Facilities ...
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Navy investigating grounding of cargo ship in Bahrain
“On Saturday afternoon in Bahrain, U.S. Navy dry cargo ship USNS Alan Shepard ... ran aground off the coast of Japan near Yokosuka Naval Base after anchoring out due to high winds.