Charles Victor “Chuck” Komppa graduated from Ingram Tom Moore High School in 1990. In 2003 he enlisted in the Navy Reserves.

The president has long pressed European allies to pay more for their own security. So they may redefine what qualifies as ...

Review the day’s key developments in defense and global affairs with SOFREP’s Evening Brief – Thursday, May 22, 2025.

A RIM-162 ESSM missile fired from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) on July 23, 2010, during an exercise off the ...

Severe weather hit parts of the Midwest, spawning nearly a dozen tornadoes across six states. In Tennessee, a tornado tore the roof off of a factory. Meanwhile in Alabama, at least one tornado caused ...

A Mexican Navy training ship on a goodwill tour struck the bottom of the Brooklyn Bridge, leaving two crew members dead and ...

The ship ARM Cuauhtémoc — with 277 people on board, including 175 naval cadets — was on a good-will tour throughout the world ...

Crowds watched in horror when a Mexican navy ship heading the wrong way on the East River crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge.

A Mexican Navy sailboat with 277 people on board crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge Saturday evening, killing two people and ...

DUMBO, Brooklyn (WABC) -- An official from Mexico has identified a female cadet as one of the two people killed after a tall Mexican Navy ship on an international goodwill tour crashed into the ...

X, TRYSTANNFT, CNN, X/TrystanNFT By Michelle Watson, Hanna Park, CNN (CNN) — A Mexican Navy training ship on a goodwill tour struck the bottom of the Brooklyn Bridge, leaving two crew members dead and ...

In May 2007, two Journal News journalists took in Fleet Week from the deck of a multipurpose amphibious assault ship, the USS Wasp.