Virginian Pilot – The USS Mount Whitney takes over as command ship of the 6th Fleet.
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Category Archives: USNavy
US Navy – Bush Is Told of Carrier's Value
Associated Press – More about the politics of decommissioning the USS John F. Kennedy.
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US Navy – Submarine Crash Shows Navy Had Gaps in Mapping System
New York Times – A look at some of the problems with the US Navy’s charts.
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US Navy – Indonesia denies U.S. pilots use of airspace; carrier leaves
Associated Press – The aircraft carrier leading the U.S. military’s tsunami relief effort – the USS Abraham Lincoln – steamed out of Indonesian waters yesterday after the country declined to let the ship’s fighter pilots use its airspace for training missions – part of a broad effort by Indonesia to reassert control over its territory.
More from the Washington Post – Indonesia Sets Limits On Foreign Relief Role.
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US Navy – 'Pipe Dream' Becomes Reality as Sub Training Enters Information Age
SeaPower – A look at how submarine training is entering the 21st century.
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US Navy – E-Mail Shows Toll of Crash on Submarine and Sailors
New York Times – The nuclear submarine that ran aground Saturday in the South Pacific hit so “incredibly hard” that about 60 of its 137 crew members were injured and the sailor who died was thrown 20 feet by the impact, according to internal Navy e-mail messages sent by a top admiral.
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US Navy – One ship, two cities: A sea of trouble
Virginian Pilot – The carrier John F. Kennedy could be retired to cut costs under a proposed Department of Defense budget. That could spell the end for Mayport Naval Station in Jacksonville, Fla., where the ship is based.
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US Navy – U.S. submarine hit undersea mountain
CNN – The U.S. Navy submarine accident that killed one sailor and injured 24 others occurred when the vessel — traveling at high speed — hit an undersea mountain head-on.
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US Navy – Battle begins over carrier Kennedy
Virginian Pilot – Key members of Virginia’s congressional delegation, including the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, lined up Wednesday to thwart Pentagon plans to retire one of the Navy’s 12 aircraft carriers.
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US Navy – Indonesia delays US navy aid mission
Financial Times – A US plan to use navy landing craft to deploy about 1,000 marines on the tsunami-stricken west coast of Indonesia’s Aceh province has been delayed because of Indonesian concern that it might resemble an invasion, senior US military officials have said.
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US Navy – US nuclear submarine runs aground
BBC – The US nuclear submarine USS San Francisco has run aground south of the Pacific island of Guam, injuring several sailors on board.
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US Navy – Sailor Serves on Ship That Rescued Her
Associated Press – What goes around comes around aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln???
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US Navy – USS Stennis to arrive at new homeport in Bremerton
Associated Press – The USS John C Stennis has a new homeport.
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US Navy – Navy has new pier, protections in works in Norfolk
Virginian Pilot – The Navy has proposed building a 1,600-foot, two-tiered pier for its aircraft carriers, advancing a double-decker design it first built for smaller ships about four years ago at the Norfolk Naval Station.
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US Navy – US Sends Hospital Ship to Treat Tsunami Victims
Voice of America – The U.S. military has dispatched the Navy hospital ship Mercy to the tsunami region in Southeast Asia, and is prepared to also send modular hospitals by air that could arrive within hours.
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US Navy – Navy looks to consolidate its operations
Virginian Pilot – The Navy will enter a new round of military base closings this spring looking for ways to consolidate its operations and co-locate more facilities with the Army, Air Force and Marine Corps, the service’s top admiral asserted Tuesday.
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US Navy – Pentagon sees need for more tsunami help
Associated Press – The latest from the Indian Ocean.
Aboard the USS Bonhomme Richard: Associated Press – US sends in marines to show how much it cares
Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln: Associated Press – Top Guns’ take rear seat to helicopter pilots and Christian Science Monitor – View from US chopper
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US Navy -Local Navy unit coordinates aid mission
Virginian Pilot – What the Navy Environmental Health Center is doing to aid the tsunami victims.
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US Navy – USNS Mercy Leaves for Southeast Asia
KFMB – USNS Mercy sails for the Indian Ocean.
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US Navy – Naval base is spared damage by tsunamis
Associated Press – Why Diego Garcia was spared by the tsunamis.
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US Navy – Building a fleet for coastal rescue
Boston Globe – An interesting call for the creation of a new class of “littoral humanitarian assistance ships.”
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US Navy – U.S. helicopters speed aid to Indonesia
Associated Press – Aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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Associated Press – U.S. Helicopters Rescue Tsunami Survivors
Associated Press – U.S. Military Contributes to Tsunami Aid
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US Navy – U.S. military on relief mission
Associated Press – A summary of US aid to tsunami victims, to date.
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US Navy – U.S. Begins Aid Delivery in Sumatra
Washington Post – Seahawk helicopters from the USS Abraham Lincoln have begun delivering aid to survivors in Indonesia.
More from the Associated Press who has a reporter aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
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US Navy – U.S. forces increase disaster aid to S. Asia disaster aid to S. Asia
Honolulu Star Bulletin – The ships from the Maritime Prepositioning Squadrons on Diego Garcia and Guam are being activated for use in the Indian Ocean disaster relief efforts.
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