Virginian Pilot – The USS Harry S. Truman heads to the Gulf Coast, to serve as a helicopter carrier.
Associated Press – More Navy Ships Headed to the Gulf Coast and Pentagon Resources Pouring Into Gulf Area.
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Virginian Pilot – The USS Harry S. Truman heads to the Gulf Coast, to serve as a helicopter carrier.
Associated Press – More Navy Ships Headed to the Gulf Coast and Pentagon Resources Pouring Into Gulf Area.
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Virginian Pilot – The USS Iwo Jima, the USS Tortuga, the USS Shreveport and the USS Grapple head towards the Gulf Coast.
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CNN – The Pentagon was mobilizing troops and resources Tuesday as part of a massive relief effort in the Gulf Coast areas devastated by Hurricane Katrina???The USS Bataan is in action, and other amphibious ships and the hospital ship USNS Comfort are on their way???
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Virginian Pilot – The Norfolk-based amphibious assault ship Bataan, already in the Gulf of Mexico for training, may be called on to provide humanitarian aid to refuges of Hurricane Katrinaís destruction.
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The Guardian – Japan and the US are planning to build a giant floating runway off the coast of western Japan in a bid to reduce noise pollution by US military aircraft.
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Naval War College Review – Many who were not submariners thought that the U.S. submarine force had lost its raison d’Ítre when the Cold War ended, which was not the case. The following will show, therefore, that there has always been a next “most important mission” for these warships.
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Sea Power – Naval news from around the industry.
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Sea Power – An interview with Rear Admiral Michael L. Holmes, Commander, Patrol & Reconnaissance Group who is juggling new missions and demands with smaller, more dispersed maritime patrol and reconnaissance forces.
Sea Power – Marine, Navy officers dominate in Joint Chiefs, Unified Commands.
BBC – Three missiles have been fired from the Jordanian port of Aqaba, missing the USS Ashland but hitting Israel.
Virginian Pilot – Missiles fired at local Navy ships in Jordan.
Washington Post – U.S. Ship Attacked in Jordan Port.
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Associated Press – An update on the DD(X) project.
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Sea Power – Joint Forces Command data access system enables tactical commanders to ëGoogleí for fresh intelligence.
Sea Power – The Navy and Marine Corps are integrating tactical air resources to get air power to the right places faster and more efficiently.
Naval War College Review – The United States has entered, and is already responding to, a new and highly uncertain era regarding the purposes, means, and possibilities of acquiring and maintaining bases for the support of operations abroad. History has much to say here, but the answers, choices, and trade-offs will depend most of all on scenariosówhat the nation believes could happen.
Associated Press – The USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier battle group, a contingent of Marines and dozens of Air Force fighter jets have conducted their biggest inter-service exercises of the year off the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.
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Mainichi Daily News – Japanese citizens do not want the conventionally powered aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk replaced by a nuclear powered one.
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Associated Press – The front-line fighter jet of the Navy and Marines has suffered a series of recent accidents blamed on brake failure, exposing a problem that has spurred urgent warnings from commanders
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Reuters – Budget analysts told U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday the cost of building the new DD(X) destroyer could be too high even by the standards of Pentagon officials.
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Naval War College Review – How well should hospital ships be protected?
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Naval War College Review – Today’s decisions about strategy and force planning fundamentally influence future strategy and force posture. A proposed “Strategy and Force Planning Framework” may help planners and strategists ask the right questions, appreciate complex dynamics, and address in a comprehensive way the important factors present in strategic decision making.
Virginian Pilot – More than 15,000 service members and 20 ships from four countries are participating in a week long joint task force exercise, called “Operation Brewing Storm,” which will end Friday off the Virginia coast.
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New York Times – Admiral Vern Clark is stepping down next week as the longest-serving chief of naval operations in a half-century, having spent five years revamping the fleet and trimming Navy budgets in an unusual sacrifice to help pay the Army’s bills in Iraq.
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Sea Power – Naval news from the Hill.
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Sea Power – It is one of several concepts that will lead to a vastly expanded array of missions for the Navyís growing fleet of underwater vehicles.
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