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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US Navy – Pentagon Said to Offer Cuts in the Billions
New York Times – The Pentagon plans to retire one of the Navy’s 12 aircraft carriers – the USS John F. Kennedy, buy fewer amphibious landing ships for the Marine Corps and delay the development of a costly Army combat system of high-tech arms as part of $60 billion in proposed cuts over the next six years, Congressional and military officials said Wednesday.
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US Navy – San Diego-based Navy ships on way to help tsunami victims
San Diego Union Tribune – The USS Bon Homme Richard and Expeditionary Strike Group 5 as well as the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Battlegroup are on their way to the Indian Ocean to aid in disaster relief.
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US Navy – United Defense's Mk110 Gun To Arm LCS and New Destroyer
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US Navy – Navy providing some help to countries hit by tidal wave — may provide more
Associated Press – The US Navy says all of its ships and other assets survived south Asia’s killer tsunami with no significant damage.The closest US base to the affected area is on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. The base emerged unscathed.
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US Navy – Navy Relieves 80 Commanders Over 5 Years
Associated Press – The Navy has relieved at least 80 commanding officers for performance problems since 1999, a number that includes a recent spike attributed to inappropriate personal behavior by about two dozen officers, Navy officials said Wednesday.
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US Navy – Navy Leaders Push Simulator-Based Training
SeaPower – As a solution to the inter-locking challenges of maintaining a high readiness rate while have less access to real world training opportunities, Navy officials said, are the rapidly improving high-tech simulators that provide realistic training in individual, team and even battle-group skills, tactics and decision-making ó at greatly reduced costs.
US Navy – Destroyer Williams joins fleet, bearing latest technology
Virginian Pilot – Aboard the destroyer USS James E. Williams, which has a robotic mine-hunting system that uses a small, unmanned submersible, like a tiny submarine, to scan the water for floating bombs.
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US Navy – For four subs, it's goodbye ballistic missiles, hello SEALs
Virginian Pilot – Aboard the USS Georgia, which is about to be converted from ballistic missile submarine to special operations submarine.
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US Navy – Over Iraq, Pilots Fly Into Action When Troops Call for Help
Washington Post – A look at the close air support assets available to US forces on the ground in Iraq.
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