San Diego Union Tribune – The USS Ronald Reagan heads out for a routine six-month deployment to the western Pacific.
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Daily Press – A look at the life of a Hospital Corpsman.
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Virginian Pilot – A look at the new Secretary of the Navy.
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Virginian Pilot – Navy Secretary Gordon England – who has also been serving as the acting deputy defense secretary – gave up his Navy post today, clearing the way for a new naval leader. The move will allow Donald Winter to be sworn in as Navy secretary next week.
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Virginian Pilot – Just like their names ñ Whirlwind, Squall, Hurricane and Thunderbolt ñ the Navyís fleet of patrol coastal ships has had a storm-tossed history. After operating the 13 sleek, compact craft for the first six years of their lives, the Navy decided in 1998 the gas guzzlers were too expensive to maintain and began getting rid of them. The service volunteered to give five to the Coast Guard and sell others to allied navies???Now the Navy is taking them all back.
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Knight Ridder – The last two U.S. battleships, the USS Iowa and the USS Wisconsin, have been decommissioned and reactivated several times in their 60-year history. Now they are facing their final deactivation and could be turned into museums.
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Virginian Pilot – The aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy apparently will remain in service until at least next fall as Congress continues a full year of debate over the shipís future and the size of the nationís carrier fleet.
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Virginian Pilot – Some Navy reservists are finding a desert deployment harder than they imagined.
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Associated Press – The Navy’s F-14 Tomcat, a Cold War-era fighter jet emblazoned in the public’s imagination as Tom Cruise’s sleek ride in the movie “Top Gun,” is beginning its final weeks of combat sorties over Iraq before being retired from the U.S. arsenal.
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Virginian Pilot – Through most of his eight overseas deployments during 30 years in the Corps, no one was much interested in what Michael R. Regner, or any other Marine, wanted in the way of creature comforts aboard their amphibious ships???However, the Navy asked for their opinions before building its newest amphib, the San Antonio.
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Virginian Pilot – As the Navy assumes a greater role in the Iraq war ñ mostly in support positions to ease an overburdened Army ñ sailors are thrown in the middle of the Kuwaiti and Iraqi deserts.
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Virginian Pilot – Aboard the Navy coastal patrol boat USS Firebolt.
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Virginian Pilot – A new proposal to revive Navy shipbuilding and add more than 30 vessels to todayís fleet of about 280 depends on the serviceís ability to control construction costs and keep other expenses ñ including the war on terror ñ from eating into shipbuilding budgets.
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Copley News Service – In another move away from its Cold War concentration on deep-ocean operations, the Navy is forming a command that will focus on missions on land and in the shallow waters of ports and rivers, which could be more relevant in fighting terrorism???The new Navy Expeditionary Combat Command will have a certain back-to-the-future look, with units designed to operate in the rivers and coastal waters much like the “brown water” Navy missions in Vietnam and in the Civil War. It will consist of about 40,000 sailors trained for a physical, up-close style of conflict more from the 18th century than today’s stand-off, high-tech naval combat.
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New York Times – The Navy wants to increase its fleet to 313 ships by 2020, reversing years of decline in naval shipbuilding and adding dozens of warships designed to defeat emerging adversaries.
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Virginian Pilot – With the F-14 mechanics aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Persian Gulf.
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Virginian Pilot – A look at the work of the members of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 4.
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Richmond Times Dispatch – The problems are so great with the Advanced SEAL Delivery System, the Special Operations Command announced yesterday that it is stopping further tests on the prototype, delaying the next two and re-examining the program.
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San Diego Union Tribune – The USS Dolphin returns to sea after its near-death experience in 2002.
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New York Times – The United States intends to close one of its two foreign naval bases that service nuclear submarines. The 33-year-old naval base at La Maddalena, off the coast of Sardinia, will close because of “military reshuffling.”
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Virginian Pilot – Welcome to the world of landing signal officers aboard a Navy aircraft carrier. Itís about as far as you can get from toiling in an office cubicle.
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Reuters – The Pentagon will order an initial eight highly-automated DD(X) destroyers being developed by Northrop Grumman Corp. and General Dynamics as the centerpiece of the U.S. Navy’s 21st century fleet.
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Sea Power – Naval News from Capitol Hill

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Virginian Pilot – The Navy has decided to send the Norfolk-based aircraft carrier George Washington to Japan to replace the aging carrier Kitty Hawk when it is retired from service in 2008
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Sea Power – Industry experts believe the nation is vulnerable to a sneak attack from the sea, and the idea is gaining traction in Washington.

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