US Navy – Aboard the USS Kearsarge, passing through the Straits of Gibraltar.

• Virginian Pilot: Ships sailing toward trouble zone glad to see land near Gibraltar

US Coast Guard – The Coast Guard is sending 8 110-foot cutters to the Gulf to provide force security.

• Virginian Pilot: Coast Guard to send ships, personnel to gulf

US Navy – The USS Harry S. Truman battlegroup is exercising with Albania.

• Associated Press: U.S. Carrier in Albanian Joint Exercise

Background – NATO – Looking back at 2002 and forward to 2003 with NATO.

• Sea Power: Does NATO Still Have The Will?