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4 hrs ago | Kansas City Star

Planes ready to leave Brunswick, Maine Navy base

The rumble of Navy patrol aircraft flying overhead will soon be a thing of the past as the remaining P-3 Orions depart from Brunswick Naval Air Station.While much of the nation prepares for Thanksgiving, air crews from VP-26 are prepping to ship out for a six-month deployment to El Salvador, Italy and the Horn of Africa.

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8 hrs ago | Corpus Christi Caller

USS City of Corpus Christi leaving Guam for Pearl Harbor

Madeleine Bordallo. The 6,900-ton submarine was named after Corpus Christi in January 1983.

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Related Topix: US News, US House of Representatives, Madeleine Bordallo, Democrat, Corpus Christi, TX, Corpus Christi Metro, US Military, US Navy

13 hrs ago | India News

First Indian Navy women aviators take charge

Kochi : The Indian Navy created history on Friday by inducting two women aviators or combatants into its combat arm, which is happening for the first time in the Indian Armed Forces.

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17 hrs ago | Bearsden Today

Largest submarine joins Navy The largest attack submarine in the Royal Navy arrives at its base.

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Thu Nov 19, 2009

Las Vegas Sun

Military experiment seeks to predict PTSD

Two days before shipping off to war, Marine Pfc. Jesse Sheets sat inside a trailer in the Mojave Desert, his gaze fixed on a computer that flashed a rhythmic pulse of contrasting images.

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Related Topix: Terrorism, Life, Veteran Affairs, US Military, US Marine Corps, California

Connecticut's WB 20

Merchant sea captain held by pirates, Navy rescue crew reunited in Virginia

A merchant sea captain who was captured and held by Somali pirates in April reunited Thursday with the U.S. Navy crew and captain who were part of his daring rescue, thanking them for saving him.

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KSWO

Gates names West, Clark to lead Fort Hood review

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is putting former Army Secretary Togo West and former Navy chief Vernon Clark in charge of a broad Pentagon review of the circumstances surrounding the Fort Hood shootings.

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Bury Free Press

Pathologist reported over Navy death findings

A pathologist will be reported to two medical authorities after the "woefully low" standard of his report left a Somerset coroner unable to rely on its findings.

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KTXA-TV Fort Worth

AG Holder: Don't Fear Trial Of 9/11 'Coward'

AG Holder: Don't Fear Trial Of 9/11 'Coward' Share + Nov 18, 2009 8:53 am US/Central AG Holder: Don't Fear Trial Of 9/11 'Coward' Attorney General Says Fears Of NYC Trial 'Misplaced' - Big Apple Can Handle Khalid Sheikh Mohammed NEW YORK 1 of 3 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is seen in an undated 2001 file photo, left; and he appears in detention in this ...

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Wed Nov 18, 2009

Corpus Christi Caller

Missing Navy plane found

28, was found Sunday about 1.5 miles off Matagorda Island. The cause of the crash still is being investigated.

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WAFB-TV Baton Rouge

Ex-crewmen: Company wouldn't rename targeted ship

The company that owns the Maersk Alabama, a freighter targeted by pirates twice in seven months, did not heed a request to rename, repaint or reroute the ship after the first attack off the coast of Africa in the spring, former crew members say.

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Wicklow People

09:22 Inquest for blast death soldier

An inquest is due to be held into the death of a soldier killed in a roadside bomb blast in Afghanistan.

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Kansas City Star

Navy report: Lax behavior contributed to collision

U.S. military investigators who examined a collision earlier this year between two Navy vessels in the Persian Gulf say the accident was preventable and that some submarine crew members habitually fell asleep and spent too much time away from their stations.A Connecticut newspaper, The Day of New London, reported the findings after obtaining a ...

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KXAM-TV Austin

Pirates again attack Maersk Alabama

The EU's anti-piracy force says that Somali pirates have again attacked the Maersk Alabama, the U.S.-flagged ship hijacked last spring.

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WPDE

Federal judge: Construction on port can continue

A federal judge has rejected an environmental group's request to stop a port expansion project in South Carolina.

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Tue Nov 17, 2009

Connecticut Post

Ill congressman defends 'savage religion' comment

An Illinois congressman says his comment that suspected terrorists detained at Guantanamo Bay follow a "savage religion" has been misinterpreted.

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WVEC-TV Norfolk

Navy sets new bird study at NC landing field site

The Navy is conducting another bird study at a proposed North Carolina site for a practice landing field for jets fighters.

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Reno Gazette-Journal

Locklear gives needed boost to 'Melrose'

TONIGHT'S MUST-SEE: 'Melrose Place,' 9 p.m., CW. Here's the boost this show has needed: Amanda Woodward , a fierce force in the original 'Melrose,' is back.

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ScrippsNews

Freed hostage recounts 311 horrible days he spent as captive in Baghdad

Freed hostage recounts 311 horrible days he spent as captive in Baghdad Submitted by SHNS on Mon, 11/16/2009 - 15:31 "I hoped they wouldn't decide to just cut off my head and videotape the occasion for mass distribution to the international media -- an opportunity for them to declare victory for al-Qaeda in Iraq," he writes in the first chapter of ...

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Department of Defense News

Nellis Plans for F-35's Opportunities, Challenges

With the new F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter aircraft's arrival just four years away, officials at the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center here are looking forward to joint training opportunities while recognizing the challenges of providing realistic training on such a technologically advanced aircraft.

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