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News Tipoffs - Connecticut Editors Newsletter for Saturday April 05, 2025 ( 2 items )  

Navy to Commission Submarine Iowa (SSN 797)
WASHINGTON, April 4 -- The U.S. Navy issued the following news release: * * * Navy to Commission Submarine Iowa (SSN 797) Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds will deliver the principal address. Additional speakers are set to include Secretary of the Navy John Phelan; Adm. Daryl Caudle, Commander, Fleet Forces Command; the Honorable Richard Blumenthal, U.S. Senator from Connecticut; the Honorable Joe Courtney, U.S. Representative from Connecticut; and Mark Rayha, president, General Dynamics Electric Bo  more

Ties that bind: A 250-year legacy of American service
FORT BRAGG, North Carolina, April 4 -- The U.S. Army Reserve Command issued the following news: * * * Ties that bind: A 250-year legacy of American service FORT BELVOIR, Va. - In the spring of 1775, the world order was in question. After decades of onerous taxation by the British, independent-minded American colonists sought to throw off the yoke of their cross-Atlantic governors and were prepared to do so at the point of the bayonet. Such were the tinderbox conditions on the fateful morn  more