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PublishedAugust 9, 2018
BIW gets $33.6 million to continue work on warship
The award extends maintenance and design work for littoral combat ships, a smaller cousin to the destroyers BIW has built for decades.
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PublishedJune 28, 2018
House backs Pentagon spending bill that includes raises
The legislation also includes money for 12 Navy ships, two submarines and three littoral combat ships.
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PublishedMay 28, 2018
Maine Voices: Time to reflect on importance of honoring those who died serving
We at the Maine Bureau of Veterans' Services make it our mission to support veterans any way we can.
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PublishedMay 4, 2018
Navy seeks to keep Arleigh Burke destroyers at sea longer. What that means for BIW is uncertain.
The ships, which are Bath Iron Works' main product, could sail for 45 years, and that dampens speculation that the Navy will ramp up production.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2018
Education secretary DeVos backs school choice for military children
A proposal would allow military families to use $1.3 billion in public funds to send their children to private school or pay for education services.
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2018
Maine Voices: Early childhood education is as crucial to military readiness as jets and ships
It's important to get a head start on the building of academic and 'character' skills eventually needed to enlist or qualify for any career path.
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PublishedDecember 26, 2017
Three U.S. cities sue Defense Department over failures in gun-check system
The department must relay crime data on service members to curb mass shootings like the one last month in Texas, the cities say.
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PublishedDecember 13, 2017
Charles Jenkins, U.S. sergeant who defected to North Korea in 1960s, dies
He was 24 when he drunkenly stumbled across the border. He spent the next nearly 40 years in what he described as a 'giant, demented prison.'
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PublishedNovember 21, 2017
Maine Voices: Maine Hire-a-Vet successfully connects employers to job-seeking veterans
Launched 2 years ago, program urges 100 employers to hire 100 veterans in 100 days.
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PublishedNovember 7, 2017
Robert Palmer Coles Jr. of Machias, who took decisive action at Pearl Harbor, dies at 93
Though trained as a radioman, he took up a machine gun and fired at Japanese torpedo bombers from the deck of a destroyer during the attack.
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