Since then, the hulking aircraft has flown missions during the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, and in Iraq and Syria against the Islamic State, participated in countless search and rescue efforts, and created an invaluable network of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance data.

Ensign Brendan W. Butler, 25, a surface warfare officer in training on board the amphibious transport dock Mesa Verde, had previously been in a relationship with the accuser, according to his civilian defense attorney, Benjamin Beliles.

The U.S. Naval Academy will ban people who are transgender from attending the school, beginning with the 2020 school year. The Defense Department confirmed that change to the Capital Gazette newspaper on Monday. The school in Annapolis, Maryland, currently accepts transgender students and retains midshipmen who transition to another gender.

The guided-missile destroyer suffered a massive hole in her starboard side, other hull damage and topside structure destruction in the June 17, 2017, collision with the ACX Crystal, a merchant vessel, off the coast of Japan that killed seven American sailors.

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