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• Question!

  
  instapinch.com — Authority: 127
  To all you retired Navy dudes…. Is there any reason to keep uniforms?  Any of them?  I’ll take the mess dress down and see if anyone wants them in the unit – they are only 3-4 years old (unlike the nicely jaundiced choker whites which date from the mid-80’s). I can’t think of any reason to keep them – ...
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• Indian Navy keen to buy newer generation aircraft

  
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  By Gulshan R. LuthraNew Delhi, Nov 22 (IANS) The Indian Navy has floated a Request for Information (RFI) for a newer generation of aircraft which can operate from the two indigenous aircraft carriers it will commission over the next 10 years.The Ministry of Defence and industry sources indicate that the RFI, issued ...
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• Should the US Navy Donate One of Its Old Aircraft Carriers For Pacific Ocean Cleanup?

  
  EbioAnt — Authority: 144
  By Lance Winslow Did you know we have floating garbage islands in all the oceans of the world? This is human trash which has been washed out to sea, or dumped by ships and it floats around in circles in the ocean. Often, it never reaches the shore because the ocean circulation just goes round, and round. Indeed, ...
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• For Conservative Movie Lovers: John Ford, John Wayne, and ‘They Were Expendable’ Part 6

  
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  The casting of Robert Montgomery (1904–1981) in They Were Expendable was uncommonly appropriate. The suave, handsome actor made his name in debonair romantic comedies throughout the 1930s, but like John Ford he didn’t wait until America was dragged into war before enlisting. In 1940, fired up by the ...
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• This Week In The Pentagon

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 518
  An interview with the new commander of USSOUTHCOM and the Navy’s continuing efforts to stop piracy of the coast of Somalia.
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• What a GREAT Story!

  
  instapinch.com — Authority: 127
  What is that old saying?  The best revenge is living well?  Navy Commander Hung B. Le, who as a 5 year old in 1975 spent 2 days with his family bobbing about in the South China Sea after they fled South Vietnam ahead of communist forces bent on the “peaceful reunification” process.  Picked up by the USS ...
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• First “naval” JSF lands at NAS Patuxent River

  
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  During my visit to the USS Nimitz in the Indian Ocean last month, I had the opportunity to see the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornets in action. The Super Hornet is a 4.5+ generation naval multirole aircraft that was delivered to the US Navy in 1999 to replace the F-14, the S-3 and, in the long term, the F/A-18C and D ...
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• Navy Announces Draft Environmental Impact Statement For Military Relocations To Guam

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 518
  The Navy announced today the availability of the draft environmental impact statement/overseas environmental impact statement (EIS/OEIS) for the military buildup on Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI).  The draft EIS/OEIS analyzes the impacts of the following proposed actions: ...
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• F-35 Program Has Issues DCMA Says

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 442
  The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) has become the aviation program in the Obama defense budget. This multi-variant, multi-service aircraft will be the only new tactical aircraft built in the United States for several years now that the F-22 Raptor was canceled in the 2010 budget. In fact Secretary of Defense ...
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• US Navy looks to climate change and the melting Arctic

  
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  If there is one issue that is guaranteed to get everyone all stirred up (and no I’m not referring to Apple vs Microsoft) whenever it is mentioned it is talk about climate change. There are those that believe that the whole climate change discussion is nothing more than hot air but it appears that the U.S. Navy ...
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• Collision Report On The U.S.S. Hartford And The U.S.S. New Orleans Is In

  
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  The USS Hartford pulls into a dock in Bahrain on March 21 after hitting another U.S. warship. Cmdr. Jane Campbell / U.S. Navy via AP file Navy: ‘Ineffective’ Leadership In Sub Collision -- MSNBC/AP Report on March accident cites crew sleeping on watch, others studying GROTON, Conn. - The crew aboard a ...
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• In rarity, 2 warships visit Seal Beach at once

  
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  The bow of the USS Curts (38) is visible just ahead of the stern of the USS Gary (51). Image by Gary Robbins, The Register The Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station has such a small, shallow bay, it very rarely hosts more than one warship at a time. But the base is on double duty at the moment, serving two Perry-class ...
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• Somali Pirates Attack U.S Merchant Ship Again!

  
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  The U.S merchant ship, Maersk Alabama was again attacked today by Somali pirates, who hit the vessel with automatic weapons, but their assault was thwarted by a group of private security force that was on board and was responsible for the ship’s security. The Maersk Alabama was being monitored by a U.S surveillance ...
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• The Maersk Alabama takes notes from Charlie the Unicorn

  
  HotMES — Authority: 557
  At this point, maybe the pirates should take note and stop attacking this ship : The Maersk Alabama, the American-flagged ship captured briefly by pirates in April, came under fire again early Tuesday morning off Somalia’s coast, but evaded the attackers. Four men in a skiff sped within 300 yards of the ...
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• AgustaWestland North America Awarded U.S. Navy Contract — Press Release

  
  Defense Procurement News — Authority: 442
  AgustaWestland North America Awarded U.S. Navy Contract RESTON, Va., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire/ — AgustaWestland North America (AWNA) is pleased to announce that it was recently awarded a $17.35M U.S. Navy contract to provide depot level maintenance on three Egyptian Mk-2 variant H-3 helicopters. The contract provides ...
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• Tomahawk Test Demonstrates Time-Critical Use

  
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  WASHINGTON: A U.S. Navy Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile was launched during an operational test Nov. 5 which demonstrated the effectiveness of the missiles new anti-jam GPS system and successful use against time-critical targets. The Tomahawk Block IV was launched from the USS Princeton (CG-59), a Ticonderoga-class ...
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• Crowder at Gitmo

  
  Truth, Lies and In Between — Authority: 138
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• Earth calling Mars!

  
  Whopper's Bunker — Authority: 120
  The fine fellows at Letters of Note recently uncovered a document from 1924 which highlights just how far back the possibility of alien life has been taken seriously by governments and the military. Some 70 years before the fomation of UNETIDA, SECDEF Curtis Dwight Wilbur sent a telegram instructing all Naval stations ...
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• Lockheed Martin F-35B prepares for vertical takeoff and landings

  
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  The first aircraft in history to combine stealth with short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) capability and supersonic speed has been delivered to the Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., where it will conduct its first hovers and vertical landings. The Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II STOVL stealth fighter will ...
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• US Navy Wants You to Hang Obama

  
  Bear Creek Ledger — Authority: 497
  Hang him from your ‘Holiday’ tree that is. The Obama’s put out the request for tree ornaments to not include or reference that dreaded and banned word – CHRISTMAS. I do think that request was rescinded, it doesn’t matter. The original request shows where their beliefs and heads are and it’s not [...]
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