Associated Press – The USS Jimmy Carter, set to join the nation’s submarine fleet Saturday, will have some special capabilities, intelligence experts say: It will be able to tap undersea cables and eavesdrop on the communications passing through them.
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Daily Archives: February 19, 2005
US Navy – Navy plans to mothball carrier JFK, not scrap it
Virginian Pilot – The Navy expects to mothball the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy after retiring it later this year, preserving vital systems so that the ship could return to the fleet if needed.
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US Marines – Does anyone see need for marines here?
Japan Times – Do the Marines really need their bases on Okinawa?
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US Marines – Fallujah the safest place in Iraq, says US
Daily Telegraph – With the Marines who are rebuilding Fallujah.
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Russian Navy – Nuclear cruiser Admiral Nakhimov being upgraded
Bellona – Reconstruction and upgrade of the nuclear-powered cruiser Admiral Nakhimov is under way at the Sevmash plant in Severodvinsk.
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History – "Sudden Death Echo"
Leatherneck – It was early in the Vietnam War, a time when Marines still wore sateen utilities, carried wooden-stocked M14 rifles and fought an enemy that could disappear into thin air and re-emerge with deadly consequences.
NOSI - Naval Open Source Intelligence™ 