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From his office window at Newport, R.I., Capt. Michael Langston could see the Narragansett River.

The Navy is commissioning its newest battleship with a bow forged from steel that once held up the World Trade Center.

More than 30 years ago, Hung Ba Le fled Vietnam onboard a trawler crammed with hundreds of refugees.

Lt. Bret T. Miller, 30, whose family still lives in East Troy, is a graduate of East Troy High School.

The floor of VFW Post 291 has been scuffed by the shoes and boots of veterans who fought in wars going back nearly a century, to World War I. The setting is a comfort for Willis Cochran, who served in the Navy during the Vietnam War.

ST LOUIS: The last T-45C Goshawk was delivered to the U.S. Navy During a ceremony at the Boeing production facilities in St.

Two NATO soldiers are missing in western Afghanistan from a routine resupply mission, the alliance said Friday.

A fire aboard a Navy ship can quickly become a deadly cauldron. The grim reminders of this would be the deadly fires that took place aboard the USS Forrestal in 1967 or the USS Enterprise in 1969.

By Kitsap Sun staff Originally published 05:59 p.m., November 5, 2009 Updated 07:44 p.m., November 5, 2009 BREMERTON - About 500 gallons of jet fuel from the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln spilled into Sinclair Inlet on Thursday, but officials from the Navy and the state Department of Ecology said the spill was quickly contained.

The National Nuclear Regulator has granted a nuclear vessel licence for a US nuclear powered submarine, the USS San Juan, to visit Simonstown Naval Base.

Posted on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 5:11 p.m. People gather to honor and say a final farewell to a soldier killed while serving in Afghanistan People gather to honor and say a final farewell to a soldier killed while serving in Afghanistan Evangelical march in Brazil draws 1.5 million Monday, November 02, 2009 at 3:11 PM Evangelical march in ...

NASA Ames Director Pete Worden, Mayor Margaret Abe-Koga and Ames historian Jack Boyd all spoke during a ceremony Monday evening in celebration of NASA Ames' 70th anniversary.

A panel at the University of Michigan Law School is probing the future of U.S. security as the clock ticks down for the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

U.S. Air Marshal 'raped Navy woman after Heathrow drinking binge' By Emily Andrews Last updated at 7:16 PM on 02nd November 2009 A US Air Marshal responsible for protecting air passengers in the wake of 9/11 raped a young woman at a Heathrow hotel, a court heard today.

In the largest naval seizure of it kind, Israeli Navy commandoes captured a ship loaded with "hundreds of tons" of weapons headed for Syria, Israeli military officials said Wednesday.

A ship long enough to hold two football fields has made its way to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in anticipation of a mission that will see it transporting a deactivated research submarine to a Navy facility in Washington State.

New York Tabletop and gift retailer Michael C. Fina will create the china service for the new U.S. Navy ship, USS NEW YORK .

Harvard Historian Paul Kenned, in his 'The Rise and Fall of Navies,' wrote, 'Those faster-growing economies can afford both guns and butter.' China's tremendous economic growth has been accompanied by a quantum leap in China's naval build-up. Today, more than 1,000 Chinese commercial ships and oil tankers are sailing through troubled waters every ...

Originally published October 31, 2009 at 3:03 p.m., updated October 31, 2009 at 3:03 p.m. Lt.

BREMERTON, Wash -- The FBI and U.S. Navy are investigating a break in at the Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor that occurred Monday morning.