BENICIA, Calif. -- From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that ...

More than 200 people work in Southeast Texas maintaining a reserve fleet of ships so they're ready to go within five days in the event they are needed. The U.S. Maritime Administration’s Western Gulf ...

Ask Jon Atkinson, president of Pittsburgh’s local paramedic and EMT union, to describe one of the city’s ambulances to you, and he’ll paint a sorry picture. “The driver's seat is falling apart. You ...

The Department of Transportation’s Maritime Administration has signed contracts to clean and recycle three World War II-era ships from the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet, including the last two Victory ...

In February 2008, when I held a hearing on the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet at Benicia City Hall, I was stunned when representatives from the U.S. Maritime Administration refused to even attend the ...

BENICIA — From afar, the ghostly warships recall a fierce phalanx ready for battle. A closer look, though, shows the rust and rot of ships unfit for duty or even dismantling, a quandary that is ...

The U.S. Maritime Administration has announced that it has delivered on its promise to remove all ten “high priority” ships from the James Reserve fleet. John Jamian, acting Maritime administrator, ...

Ben with bought 18 classic International trucks from a rancher in a remote part of eastern Oregon, so I finally pulled my rollback out of the mothball fleet and put it to work. Mary Trump issues ...