WASHINGTON, March 1 (TNSRep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following report (No. RS22478) on Feb. 28, 2022, entitled "Navy Ship Names: Background for Congress": * * * (Continued from Part 1 of 4) Rules for Ship Types Now Being Procured or Recently Procured For ship types now being procured for the Navy, or recently procured for the Navy, naming rules (and exceptions thereto) are summarized below. The July 2012 Navy report to Congress discusses current naming rules (and exc  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 -- Rep. Trent Kelly, R-Mississippi, issued the following news release: U.S. Senators Roger Wicker, R-Miss., and Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., and U.S. Representatives Steven Palazzo, R-Miss., and Trent Kelly, R-Miss., joined lawmakers from the Maine congressional delegation in a letter urging Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro to include funding for three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers in next year's FY2023 budget. "As you work to finalize the Department of the Navy's FY 20  more

WASHINGTON, March 1 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: On October 3, 1993, during the Battle of Mogadishu, U.S. Army Master Sergeant Gary Gordon--a native of Lincoln, Maine--gave his life to save the crew of a Black Hawk helicopter that had been shot down over the city. Realizing that the injured crew could not survive an advance of enemy forces with only aerial coverage, MSG Gordon requested that his helicopter mission commander deposit him on the ground to d  more