By Peter Etnoyer, on  April 13th, 2009 Industry & Government, Pictures and Movies, Vessels and Equipment Captain, CNN, Maersk, military official, National Security Council, Obama administration, Pirate, president, Richard Phillips, Somalia, U.S. military, United States, United States Navy, White House Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Somalian pirates received payback for their hostilities on Easter Sunday. Members of the U.S. Navy shot and killed three pirates who had been holding Capt. Richard Phillips hostage in a lifeboat on Sunday evening, a military official said. The pirates seized Phillips after a failed attempt to . . . → Read More: Go Navy! Captain rescued from Somali pirates
By Dr. M, on  June 11th, 2007 Conservation & Environment, Industry & Government Army, burns, chemical weapons, chemical-filled bombs, dolphins, Dumping, land mine, munitions, mustard gas bombs, mustard gas exposure, musturd gas, New Jersey United States, radioactive, rocket, U.S. military, waste, weapons of mass destruction It is no secret that the U.S. military has used the ocean as trashcan for munitions in the past. Peter discussed at the Old DSN how federal lawmakers were pressing the US Army to reveal everything it knows about a massive international program to dump chemical weapons off homeland and foreign shores. “The Army . . . → Read More: Munitions Dumping at Sea
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