Virginian Pilot – The Navy has ordered the amphibious assault ship USS Wasp to leave for the waters off Lebanon as early as Friday to support any relief efforts by the American embassy in Beirut.
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Virginian Pilot – The drudgery of ship maintenance is a part of life in the Navy, bringing months ñ or even years ñ of shore-bound duties. Being ”in the yards” can be the most dreaded period in a sailorís career.
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Virginian Pilot – The Navy on Monday began scrutinizing the destroyer Gonzalez and its crew to determine the successes and failures of a program designed to keep warships at sea longer by rotating crews.
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Virginian Pilot – The guided missile destroyer Gonzalez returned home Thursday from an 18-month deployment that involved three crews under the Navy’s Sea Swap program. The Gonzalez was part of the now-defunct Sea Swap program, which kept the destroyer overseas for a longer-than-traditional deployment while three crews rotated aboard for six-month stints.
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Virginian Pilot – The USS Saipan Expeditionary Strike Group sets sail next week.
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Time – His father tells TIME that Ariel Weinmann was just a disillusioned sailor who deserted the Navy, but the Navy has suggested he sold state secrets to a foreign power. How did a patriotic enlistee become accused of espionage?
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San Diego Union Tribune – A look at the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance project for unmanned aerial vehicles.
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St. Louis Post Dispatch – Boeing Co. unveiled a new combat plane Thursday that’s designed to jam and slam enemy radar and communications while bolstering the U.S. military’s electronic warfare plans.
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Defense Industry Daily – Problems continue with the Advanced SEAL delivery System mini-subs.
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Virginian Pilot – A retired admiral and an obscure congressman, U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett, have rekindled one of the oldest debates in the U.S. military, questioning the Navyís reliance on large aircraft carriers.
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Virginian Pilot – The USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group, currently operating in the Red Sea, was ordered today to assist in the evacuation of American citizens from Lebanon.
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CNN – The U.S. military is positioning Navy and Marine vessels in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, while the State Department charters airliners and a cruise ship to help in the evacuation of Americans trapped by the conflict in Lebanon.

Virginian Pilot – Norfolk-based ship to help evacuate Americans from Lebanon.
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Virginian Pilot – The future of the Sea Swap program in the US Navy is mixed???
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Christian Science Monitor – A deal between the US Navy and environmental groups limits active sonar use.
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Virginian Pilot – Former President George H.W. Bush came to Newport News on Saturday to see the 700-ton island placed on the carrier George H.W. Bush.
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Reuters – A federal agency on Tuesday granted the U.S. Navy permission to proceed with international naval exercises off Hawaii this week, despite the concerns of environmentalists about sonar’s effect on marine mammals.
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Associated Press – At the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, workers are preparing to transplant the nose of a retiring submarine – the USS Honolulu – onto the USS San Francisco, which was damaged when it ran into an undersea mountain in 2005.
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Washington Post – The U.S. military yesterday moved ships into position off the coast of North Korea to detect the launch of any long-range ballistic missiles and prepared its new, unproven missile-interception system to attempt a response if necessary.

Two U.S. Navy ships with sensors that could swiftly detect and track a missile’s flight were operating off the North Korean coast yesterday, a Pentagon official said. They are the USS Curtis Wilbur and the USS Fitzgerald, both Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers based at Yokosuka, Japan.
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Associated Press – As tensions with North Korea rise, three US aircraft carriers filled the skies with fighters Tuesday for one of the largest US military exercises in decades off Guam in the Pacific.
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Washington Post – The Pentagon is looking to increase the ranks of SEALs without easing their tough training.

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New York Times – Nearly a third of every 1,000-member Naval Academy class now undergoes laser eye surgery, part of a booming trend among military personnel with poor vision. Unlike in the civilian world, where eye surgery is still largely done for convenience or vanity, the procedure’s popularity in the armed forces is transforming career choices and daily life in subtle but far-reaching ways.
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Virginian Pilot – When the Navy takes possession this week of the USS Texas – second in a new class of stealthy, high-tech submarines – it will be a milestone for both buyer and seller.
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Virginian Pilot – Even as production ramps up in the Northrup Grumman Newport News shipyard, submarine activity will decline at the Norfolk naval base.
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Daily Telegraph – The European Parliament has accidentally voted through a draft law that could bankrupt the Ordnance Survey and expose secret sea-mapping data that foreign powers could use to track Royal Navy ships.
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Virginian Pilot – The Navy sank two of its retired Spruance-class destroyers in a day of surface and air warfare training about 275 miles off the North Carolina coast, sending the largest destroyers ever built to the dark ocean floor 12,000 feet below.
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