Kennedy was not yet born, when a countryish, 30-year-old Georgia lawyer named Carl Vinson was sworn ... From the start, Congressman Vinson was keenly interested in national defense.

[Note: The aircraft carrier is named after the late Congressman Carl Vinson (D-GA), who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over 50 years. As a member of the House Armed Services ...

You can get in touch with Ryan by emailing r.chan@newsweek.com. A satellite image taken on Monday shows the Carl Vinson transiting toward Guam in the Philippine Sea. The island is a critical ...

For Veterans Day, take a look at one of the Navy’s Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), and the sailors who keep her up and running. Jobs vary aboard the ship, commissioned ...

When you think of massive naval vehicles like aircraft carriers, you'd probably expect them to have a name reminiscent of one of our country's most decorated figures. For many of our Navy's ...

On Monday, the head of Veterans Administration dropped in on Dublin's Carl Vinson Medical Center. He was joined by Congressman Rick Allen and Congressman Austin Scott to speak with veterans and ...

The U.S. military is sending the USS Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group to the Middle East, as fighting with Houthi forces around Yemen reignites after a two-month pause. According to reporting from ...

The Nimitz-class USS... The United States Navy’s Carrier Strike Group (CSG) 1, led by its flagship, the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) took part in a trilateral maritime ...

Ryan Chan is a Newsweek reporter based in Hong Kong, where he previously had over a decade of experience at a local newspaper, covering China and current events around the world. His focus is on ...

The arrival of the USS Carl Vinson and its strike group at the South Korean port of Busan was meant to display a solid U.S.-South Korean military alliance in the face of persistent North Korean ...

Launched on March 15, 1980, the USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) joined the U.S. Navy's nuclear-powered supercarriers. She became the third and final Nimitz-class supercarrier, joining the Dwight D.