SAN DIEGO – Navy officials on Monday identified as a sailor the body of a man found Saturday afternoon off a Hawaii beach a day after reports that a man in a life raft was stuck in heavy surf. Electrician’s Mate 1st Class (SS) Robert L. Mudd, 29, was a crewmember assigned to...
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Northrop Grumman announced Monday that it will not bid on the KC-??X tanker and will not file a protest that might delay the program any further, which paves the way for Boeing to supply the new aircraft more than eight years after the company's original effort to do so.
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The U.S. military is testing samples of soil, water and air from hundreds of sites in Haiti to determine if troops could have been exposed to hazardous substances during earthquake relief efforts. Troops in the Haitian capital have been working in an environmental nightmare since the Jan. 13 earthquake.
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The former cruiser commanding officer who was fired in January after a years-long pattern of “cruelty and maltreatment” toward her crew is to report this week to a new job at Naval Surface Warfare Center Dahlgren, Va., Navy Times has learned. Capt. Holly Graf, fired from the cruiser Cowpens on Jan. 13 in...
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NORMAN, Okla. — CIA Director Leon Panetta says America’s counterterrorism operations are putting senior al-Qaida leaders under tremendous pressure. Panetta made the comments Monday during a foreign policy conference at the University of Oklahoma. Panetta says al-Qaida is an adaptive, resilient group of terrorists whose top goal is to attack the United States....
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WASHINGTON — White House aides are increasingly convinced that accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will never face trial in a civilian court and are trying to cut a deal that would still transfer Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects to the U.S., where many would face criminal charges, a senior administration official said Monday....
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is entering an emotionally charged dispute between the grieving father of a Marine who died in Iraq and the anti-gay protesters who picket military funerals with inflammatory messages like “Thank God for dead soldiers.” The court agreed Monday to consider whether the protesters’ message, no matter how provocative...
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NASIRIYAH, Iraq — American bomb disposal experts in Iraq say few people — even in armed forces — long knew what they did. But not anymore. Now, the military’s explosive experts are basking in their job’s newfound fame after the Iraq war drama “The Hurt Locker” took home the best picture prize at...
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NASA visits school
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Dog mushing
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Roller derby
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Tri-Service Luncheon
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Managing medication
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New "green" BX opening
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The commanding officer of the Georgia-based Naval Supply Corps School, Capt. John Titus, was nowhere near the bar in Norfolk, Va., on a night in September when, investigators say, some of the school’s instructors and students were involved in a booze-fueled dance party that lasted well past the students’ midnight curfew. But the...
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Vice Adm. P. Stephen Stanley has been nominated for reappointment to the rank of vice admiral and assignment as principal deputy director of cost assessment and program evaluation, Office of the Secretary of Defense, according to a Defense Department news release. Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the nomination Thursday. Stanley is director, force...
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Elders in a former Taliban stronghold berated and challenged Afghanistan's president Sunday, delivering a litany of complaints about government corruption and NATO's military operations on the Afghan leader's first visit to Marjah.
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