Virginian Pilot – The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy is visiting Norfolk this week before heading to Boston for its final port.
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Virginian Pilot – Despite their differences in size and weaponry, the USS Firebolt and the USS Stennis share a stated mission: Deter the Iranian Navy from hostile acts in an area vital to oil shipments by showing the Tehran regime that U.S. military strength remains formidable despite its entanglements in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Daily Telegraph – The US Navy wants to bolster security by deploying dolphins and sea lions trained to detect and intercept waterborne attackers.

Associated Press – Navy plan would put dolphins on underwater patrol.
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Virginian Pilot – A look at the work of Combined Task Force 150, operating near the Horn of Africa.
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Virginian Pilot – The Navy established its second riverine warfare squadron at a ceremony Friday morning at Little Creek Naval Amphibious Base.
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Associated Press – Free to a good home: vintage submarine, recently restored. One prior owner.
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Associated Press – The U.S. Navy has scaled back its presence off Somalia’s coast, withdrawing the Norfolk-based Eisenhower aircraft carrier after a three-week mission there.
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Virginian Pilot – The Defense Department gave the Navy permission Tuesday to keep training with sonar for another two years, a move denounced by activists who say the sound waves can harm dolphins and other marine mammals.
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Associated Press – The deployment of the USS John C. Stennis strike group to the Middle East will put two U.S. aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf region for the first time since the 2003 Iraq invasion, in a clear response to Iran’s aggressive posture in the region.
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The Day – A long-delayed decision on a replacement warhead for the missiles carried on Trident submarines may mean more work for nuclear warhead designers ó but possibly at the expense of funding for submarines.
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Virginian Pilot – Just over a year ago, the Navy Expeditionary Combat Command existed as a broad concept worked over by a dozen busy senior Navy officials. That small group has swelled to a 200-person headquarters at Little Creek Naval Amphibious base that is responsible for 32,000 sailors around the globe.
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Virginian Pilot – The Navy today set in motion a review of its worldwide submarine force because of two recent accidents involving Norfolk-based subs, one in which two crew members were killed and another in which a sub and tanker collided.
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Virginian Pilot – The submarine USS Newport News was submerged when a Japanese oil tanker passed overhead at a high speed, creating a sucking effect that made the sub rise and hit the ship, the US Navy says.
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Associated Press – The Norfolk-based aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower will join a task force off the coast of Somalia, where U.S. forces attacked suspected al-Qaida fighters today. The carrier joins the cruisers Bunker Hill, Anzio and amphibious landing ship Ashland in security operations in the Indian Ocean.
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Virginian Pilot – A Norfolk-based nuclear submarine and Japanese merchant ship collided in the Arabian Sea late Monday, but there were no injuries on either vessel, the U.S. Navy and Japanese officials said.
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Los Angeles Times – Jean-Michel Cousteau asks the US Navy to help save the whales. An interesting example of lawfare???
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Virginian Pilot – The new head of CENTCOM is an admiral.
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BBC – US naval forces have deployed off the Somali coast to prevent leaders of defeated Islamist militias escaping.
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Armed Forces Journal – A look at what is mean by the new term “1,000 ship navy?”
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Armed Forces Journal – The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) was born of controversy and is likely to remain one of the most hotly debated ships in the Navy inventory.
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New York Times – The United States and Britain will begin moving additional warships and strike aircraft into the Persian Gulf region in a display of military resolve toward Iran that will come as the United Nations continues to debate possible sanctions against the country, Pentagon and military officials said Wednesday.
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Associated Press – The Pentagon is considering sending a second aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf.

The Guardian – US considers naval build-up as warning to Iran.
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Virginian Pilot – A spy is born???
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San Diego Union Tribune – The USNS Mercy’s hugely popular humanitarian missions to Asia in the past two years may have saved the San Diego-based hospital ship and its East Coast sister vessel, the Comfort, from a trip to the scrap yard.
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Defense and the National Interest – William Lind comments on the recently reported Chinese submarine tracking of US aircraft carriers.
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