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Sam LaGrone
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Naval Reporter and Editor, USNI News
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Biography
Sam LaGrone has worked in newspapers for more than two decades and covered defense issues since 2008. Since 2009, Sam has specialized in international naval and maritime coverage -- first with Jane's Defence Weekly in its Washington, D.C. bureau and then as the founding editor of USNI News with the U.S. Naval Institute. Sam has also written for Popular Science, Wired, the San Diego Union-Tribune, Defense News, Air Force Times and The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C.
defense policy, national securityU.S. and international navies, Congress defense acquisition, China Russia
Military healthcare and military benefits.
Content
By Heather Mongilio Verified, Sam LaGrone Verified| USNI News Verified A group of 2,500 submarine workers is threatening to walk off the job over a contract dispute with General Dynamics Electric Boat, drawing in the president of one of the largest labor unions in the country to the negotiating table.
By Sam LaGrone Verified| USNI News Verified The Navy’s forward-deployed European and African sea base is back in the U.S. after almost five years and set for a maintenance period in Newport News, USNI News has learned. USS Hershel “Woody” Williams (ESB-4) returned to the East Coast on Thursday after being stationed in Souda Bay, Greece, since 2020 and is set to begin a maintenance period, a Military Sealift Command spokesperson told USNI News on Monday.
By Sam LaGrone Verified| USNI News Verified Air Force Gen. Dan Caine was sworn in on Monday as the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to press reports. Caine, 56, was confirmed by the Senate in an early Friday vote of 60 to 25. He was nominated shortly after President Donald Trump removed former chairman Gen. C.Q. Brown in February. A 1990 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, Caine served in the Air National Guard as an F-16 pilot who flew combat air patrols over Washington, D.C., after the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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USNI News
Annapolis, Maryland, United States
+1 800-395-4724