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Newsweek
a day ago
- Newsweek
Boat Crashes Into the USS Midway, Drunk Driving Suspected
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. A man suspected of drunk driving a boat into the USS Midway has been arrested for "boating under the influence," port officials said. According to the Port of San Diego Police Department, Frank D'Anna, 40, was driving a 65-foot-long motor vessel when it collided with the USS Midway Museum. The crash occurred at approximately 11:54 a.m. on July 18 and was caught on surveillance video. Newsweek has contacted the Port of San Diego and the USS Midway for comment. Guests on board the USS Midway 41 after the Fleet Week San Diego Military Advisory Council event at USS Midway Museum, San Diego, November 8, 2023. Guests on board the USS Midway 41 after the Fleet Week San Diego Military Advisory Council event at USS Midway Museum, San Diego, November 8, 2023. Lance Cpl. Hannah Hollerud/Defense Visual Information Distribution Services Why It Matters The USS Midway is one of San Diego's most recognizable landmarks and a major tourist destination attracting millions of visitors annually. No injuries were reported following the crash, but the USS Midway did sustain some damage, which will cost the Navy an estimated $100,000 in repainting and repairs, according to ABC10. What To Know A press release sent out by the Port of San Diego Public Safety said D'Anna's vessel, known as the Offshore Lifestyle, collided "head-on" with the USS Midway's port-side hull. Meaning, the left side body of the ship. The port said that the vessel was located near the Coronado Ferry Landing in San Diego after it fled the scene following the crash. There were seven individuals onboard when it was located. D'Anna has been booked into county jail for "655(B) Harbor and Navigation Code Boating Under the Influence (BUI), 656.1 Harbors and Navigation Code Hit and Run, and 655(C) Harbors and Navigation Code Operating Vessel with BAC Over .08," per the Port of San Diego Public Safety. The USS Midway is an aircraft carrier that joined the Navy's fleet in September 1945, missing World War II by one week, per the USS Midway site. It is named after the Second World War's Battle of Midway in 1942 between U.S. and Japanese naval forces in the Pacific. It was decommissioned in 1992, making it the 20th century's longest-serving aircraft carrier. It was turned into a museum in 2004. It now hosts over 700 events a year, and serves as an educational site for visitors. What People Are Saying Jagjit Bhambra, a Navy veteran speaking with ABC10, said: "I think we need to examine who was the captain of the little boat, why was he so close, how he did not notice such a massive ship in front of him." Mary Bhambra, Jagjit Bhambra's wife, told ABC10: "It's a famous ship. Maybe a fence around it or something like that, a barrier so the ship can be guarded and a lookout maybe for approaching hazards." What Happens Next If convicted of Boating Under the Influence, D'Anna could face a maximum of six months in prison and up to $1,000 in fines.
Yahoo
2 days ago
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- Yahoo
Boat crashes into USS Midway, causing $100,000 in damage to historic ship
A power boat crashed into the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage to the historic vessel turned tourist destination before its captain fled the area. San Diego authorities said the collision occurred just before 2 p.m. Friday near the Embarcadero. The boat struck the hull of the USS Midway, a decommissioned aircraft carrier that now serves as a museum, Fox 5 San Diego reported. The crash was captured on the San Diego webcam, which offers livestream views of the city's downtown from multiple vantage points. Footage shows the small, private ship coasting into the historic museum, which authorities said caused at least $100,000 in damage. Harbor Police said the captain of the private ship then fled the area, but was later found and arrested. A boat crashed into the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California, causing $100,000 in damages. (San Diego Web Cam) The unnamed captain is facing charges of hit-and-run, but is also suspected of operating a boat under the influence, authorities said. No injuries were reported in the crash. The incident remains under investigation. The USS Midway Museum, which houses an extensive collection of aircrafts that were mainly built in Southern California, remained open to the public following the incident. The ship , named after the 1942 Battle of Midway, was commissioned just after World War II, playing key roles in the Cold War and Vietnam War before later being deployed to the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Desert Storm in 1990. There, it served as the flagship for naval airforces in the Gulf and launched more than 3,000 combat missions with no losses, according to the museum's website. The ship was then decommissioned in 1992. It was the United States' longest-serving aircraft carrier, from 1945 to 1992, before it was turned into a museum in 2004. Solve the daily Crossword
Miami Herald
5 days ago
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- Miami Herald
Shelter dog to make history on ‘incredible mission' on a Navy ship in California
A black lab named Raider is on a mission. He's what you'd call a 'morale dog' from a San Diego nonprofit organization named Shelter to Soldier, where rescue dogs are trained to become emotional support animals for military veterans. And now, he's training to set sail on the U.S. Navy ship, the USS Makin Island next year, a first in the program. 'Raider is a one-year-old lab mix adopted from Labs and More Rescue currently in training with Shelter to Soldier as a shipboard Morale Dog through our Canine Ambassador program,' the Shelter to Soldier program said in a June 26 Facebook reel that highlights Raider's training. 'This initiative is designed to support the emotional wellness, morale, and mental health of sailors and marines.' The USS Makin Island is the first to partner with Shelter to Soldier, which occurred after the program's director, Nicky Moore, began to bring therapy dogs to Navy ships, NBC San Diego reported. 'Every single time it was like, 'I really wish we had a dog that stayed on board.' Like, 'Can we take this dog on deployment with us?' And so, we just kind of were like, 'Actually, yeah,'' Moore told the news outlet. And now, providing emotional support to those on board will be Raider's goal. 'Aboard the USS Makin Island, Raider will serve as a four-legged crew member, offering support through structured interaction, presence, and engagement,' Shelter to Soldier continued in the Facebook reel. 'Shelter to Soldier's Canine Ambassadors work across a range of settings to support the military and veteran community. They attend STS veteran applicant interviews, support trauma recovery therapy, participate in group sessions, and visit active-duty service members and their families, offering moments of connection and care when it's needed most.' More importantly, Raider will help 'improve mental wellness and quality of life' for those in active duty. 'Raider's role aboard the USS Makin Island helps address this crisis by fostering camaraderie within the crew, reducing operational stress, and increasing awareness for shipboard wellness and behavioral health services,' the program said. Raider's training began in April, and he's set to have his own room on the ship along with five handlers, NBC reported. 'The USS Midway Museum is honored to play a small part in this incredible mission,' The USS Midway Museum, who provided a place where Raider could train and prepare for life on the ship, commented in a Facebook post. 'Raider and his fellow Shelter to Soldier morale dogs bring comfort, connection, and strength to the sailors they serve. We're proud to help support their journey.'
Miami Herald
07-07-2025
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- Miami Herald
San Diego's USS Midway Museum debuts ‘top secret' exhibit on Navy intelligence
SAN DIEGO - The USS Midway Museum is opening the doors to a previously unseen, top-secret area of the ship where naval intelligence history was once made. Dozens of guests flocked to the flight deck of the USS Midway Museum on Friday morning, standing in front of a ribbon and balloon display that marked the grand opening of the museum's immersive new exhibit, "Top Secret: Inside the High-Stakes World of Naval Intelligence." Men in bright red sport coats, dressed in a style reminiscent of characters from the movie "Men in Black," assisted retired Rear Adm. and the USS Midway Museum's current President and CEO Terry Kraft with unveiling the once restricted area of the ship known as the Carrier Intelligence Center, or CVIC. "I took over the Midway Museum in 2023 and I thought about spaces that were important to me when I served on Midway. I did two deployments on Midway. I flew forward to combat missions from Desert Storm," Kraft said. "One of the places where it was kind of transformational for me was all the work we did here in the Carrier Intelligence Center during Operation Desert Storm. So, I wanted to open it up." The USS Midway's CVIC once served as the backbone and nerve center for naval intelligence during operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm in the early '90s. The exhibit takes guests through the day-to-day lives of the naval intelligence specialists behind Desert Storm's strategic gathering and analysis, mission planning and decision-making that supported aviators' efforts against the Saddam Hussein-led Iraqi army's invasion and occupation of Kuwait. The exhibit consists of six themed displays. Through a narrow hallway and the connecting rooms of the once high-stakes environment, bright photographs, naval artifacts and old newspaper clippings don the walls of the exhibit. Tables are scattered around each room, filled with artifacts that offer guests a more hands-on experience, as they're able to get a close-up glimpse of detailed flip-books aviators created for a quick reference during flights, toolkits where intelligence specialists stored their grease pencils and measuring tools or one of the telephones that play a recording describing the stories of intelligence officers. Guests are even allowed to step into the shoes of intelligence specialists, testing their skills in a group of tests based on visual memory, codebreaking, site assessment and close aerial looking skills, where guests learn what naval intelligence role best suits them, and participate in an immersive mission-planning activity. The exhibit's opening comes after a nearly two-year planning and working period. Initial talks to restore the CVIC were fleshed out in 2009; however, the idea didn't come into fruition until summer 2023, when discussions of restoring the space earned the formal backing of a partnership between Naval Intelligence Professionals and the USS Midway Museum, which funded the bulk of the project. Construction began in the winter of 2023 and concluded in May this year. "We worked with a great company called Art Processors, who did our another new exhibit for us last year," Kraft said. "We wanted to make this something that anybody can come down and understand the role of intel professionals, how they interface with aviators, that kind of fusion that took place and get an appreciation for really the high-stakes planning that went on down here." Kraft and the museum enlisted the help of every intelligence officer he remembered serving with on the USS Midway, as well as intelligence officers and specialists from the Midway's docents, to study and prepare for the exhibit - eventually totaling up to around 750 volunteers. Retired Commander Diana Guglielmo, an imagery analyst, helped lead the planning efforts. "I was one of their advisers, because I served on board five aircraft carriers as a senior intelligence officer," Guglielmo said. "I was the first woman to serve as the senior intelligence for the air wing, and so I basically ingested all the artifacts, and then grouped them together, and then put them into the exhibit in the right place based on what would be on a carrier." Reflecting and honoring the real stories behind the CVIC and the intelligence specialists involved was essential to the team; a space of the exhibit is dedicated to retired Capt. William Marcus "Marc" Luoma, who died in 2021. Luoma's jacket and the coffee cup he used frequently on board are even on display. As guests exit, the last section of the exhibit displays historic photos from the naval intelligence community and a message paying tribute to their "dedication and excellence" in CVIC "We hope they feel honored," Mark Berlin, the USS Midway Museum's director of operations said. "We hope that they recognize our appreciation for the hard work and dedication that they have to everything that they do. We saw that in engineering, when we had a lot of our former engineers go through this space and feel like their story is being told. We hope the same thing happens here." The team behind the exhibit hopes that even the general public will find something meaningful to take from their experience. "I hope one day, as young people come through here, men and women, they see kind of this quiet profession, and they're motivated or enthusiastic about doing this job. It's one of those parts of the Navy that we just don't talk a lot about," Guglielmo said. "In the intelligence community, we say open the green door, because all the classifieds are always hidden behind the green door, and so this will open the green door and let them see kind of what their contributions can do." _____________ Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
Yahoo
30-04-2025
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- Yahoo
50 years later: Refugee shares her story of survival as USS Midway crucial in rescuing thousands after Fall of Saigon
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — All week, people across the country and in San Diego are remembering the 50th anniversary of the Fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. The USS Midway took part in one of its most daring missions in history, Operation Frequent Wind, and became the first stop to freedom for more than 3,000 Vietnamese refugees that began April 29, 1975. USS Midway Museum commemorates 50th anniversary of Fall of Saigon The USS Midway was stationed off the coast of Vietnam during that time. 'My dad said, 'let's go, get ready,'' recalled Stephanie Dinh. Dinh fled South Vietnam on that day with her five siblings and parents. Her father was part of the South Vietnamese Army and when word broke that Saigon was about to fall to the North Communist forces, she and her family were among thousands fleeing their homeland with nothing more than the clothes on their backs. 'I had three very close friends. It's very hard as kids and you feel you want to tell them, 'I might never see you again,' said Dinh. Veteran returns to Vietnam, finds peace with former enemy She and her family escaped on a helicopter and landed on the flight deck of the USS Midway where she and other evacuees were fed and treated with medical care. 'It was complete pandemonium,' said USS Midway Museum Historian, Karl Zingheim, of the pilots that were fleeing with families crammed inside their cabins. 'None of them had been trained on shipboard operations, so how are you going to handle people you probably can't talk to on the radio. There's no air traffic control. They've got helicopters that are dangerously overloaded,' he said. The Midway crew stopped at nothing to clear the flight deck and accept as many helicopters as possible, including a pilot who crammed his family of seven into a small Cessna and showed up the following day asking the crew to clear the deck of helicopters so he could land. Full special: Vietnam – A Lost Generation Dinh recalls the crew pushing helicopters into the water with their bare hands so they could create space for him to land his family. 'I saw them pushing them over the flight deck. I saw them floating and they sink really fast. I said wow, what is this, what is going on? And I hear all this screaming and yelling on the flight deck and here comes another one after another one and then here comes a plane coming in,' Dinh said. That safe landing would become a symbol of courage and hope for so many Vietnamese families as they started a new life. 'Every time I see the ship I kind of relive that day when it was out there waiting for us,' said Dinh. 'I don't look back. This is my country. I move forward, and I repay what they have given me.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
