U.S. Navy – U.S. Navy helicopters are assisting in the search for survivors from yesterday’s Gulf Air Airbus 320 crash off Bahrain.

• CNN: Flight recorder found in wreckage of Gulf Air crash

U.S. Navy – The U.S. Navy claims that although it has been asked to double the number of intelligence missions its submarines have undertaken in the last 10 years, the number of submarines in service has been cut nearly in half in the same time.

• Associated Press: U.S. wants more subs for intelligence missions