Virginian Pilot – The USS Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group deploys.
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Associated Press – With an eye to developing faster ships, the U.S. Navy has teamed up with a New York company and the University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering to develop an electronics system that will sharply reduce the size and weight of a warship’s motors.
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Washington Times – Italy’s new center-left government will accelerate planned closure of a U.S. nuclear submarine base on the northern coast of the island of Sardinia amid fears nearby residents suffer higher-than-average cancer rates.
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Virginian Pilot – The USS George Washington is ending her deployment to the Caribbean Sea.
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Asahi Shimbun – A look at the US Navy’s role in Japan.

Ashai Simbun – Yokosuka lets U.S. Navy put its best ships forward.
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San Diego Union Tribune – The Pacific fleet of the U.S. Navy aims to step up the number of submarines and aircraft carriers in Asian waters to patrol the region and ensure security, its commander said on Friday.
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Washington Times – The tiny Balkan republic of Montenegro will offer the United States or Russia the use of a base on its Aegean coast if it wins independence from Serbia in a referendum Sunday, diplomats say.
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Virginian Pilot – Atlantic Fleet ships are headed to ports both east and south beginning today as the Navy gears up for multi national operations in the Mediterranean and Caribbean.
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Associated Press – Many fishermen are worried construction of a practice range where sailors would learn to find and track submarines with sonar will destroy the coral bottom that attracts fish of all kinds, and they’re concerned the sonar itself could drive away those fish that remain.
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Virginian Pilot – The service’s first coastal warfare squadron on the East Coast sets out from its Virginia Beach base next week. The boats can deploy at a momentís notice to patrol the world for signs of terrorism.
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Virginian Pilot – After an unusually high number of suicides among submariners last year and apparently two more this year, Navy officials are looking at what more they can do to prevent tragedies.
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Virginian Pilot – On Tuesday, the USS Enterprise and its six-ship strike group leave Norfolk for the Middle East and to support the global war on terrorism.
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Washington Post – Federal marine specialists have concluded that Navy sonar was the most likely cause of the unusual stranding of melon-headed whales in a Hawaiian bay in 2004.
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Virginian Pilot – Brown-water veterans are lending their expertise to the US Navy’s new brown-water force.
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GovExec – To counter China’s rapidly strengthening submarine fleet, the United States should spur a revolution in undersea warfare by focusing greater attention and resources on developing advanced unmanned underwater vehicles
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Virginian Pilot – The Fleet Response Plan in action???
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Associated Press – Aboard the USS Washington in the Carrbbean Sea.
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Virginian Pilot – The USS Nassau Expeditionary Strike Group prepares to return home.
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Virginian Pilot – The Navyís river combat force, based at Little Creek, is starting from scratch, since inland patrolling was last done in Vietnam. This time, 200 sailors will be watching the waterways of Baghdad.
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WLUC TV6 – It’s been more than a year since the Navy turned off its ELF (Extremely Low Frequency) submarine communication system in Humboldt Township, but the future of the facility is still uncertain.
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Virginian Pilot – The former ballistic missile submarine USS Florida is about to head back into service after an extensive conversion.
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Virginian Pilot – The crew of the Little Creek-based dock landing ship Oak Hill has helped an Indian-flagged vessel believed to have been looted and then set adrift by pirates off the coast of Somalia.
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Naval War College Review – The SSGN cruise-missile submarine, when it enters service, will be the nationís only asset that can deliver significant and immediate deep strikes without reliance upon land-based aircraft. To do that in the political and operational circumstances likely to arise, it will have to be able to work for several masters at the same time. How could this be done given todayís command and control constraints?
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Washington Post – Federal ocean scientists said yesterday they were unable to determine whether Navy sonar caused a mass stranding of whales on the North Carolina shore last year.
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Virginian Pilot – The US Navy will send The USS George Washington carrier strike group, with four ships, a 60-plane air wing and 6,500 sailors, to Caribbean and South American waters for a major training exercise – UNITAS.
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