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  1. The case for Caddell: Veteran Bee County Sheriff's Dept. investigator joins DA's staffRead the original story

    Oct 28, 2009 | The Bee-Picayune, Beeville, Texas

    ... for Sheriff R.L. "Bob" Horn while he was stationed at NAS Chase Field in the early 1980s. Not long before retiring in Adak, Alaska, Caddell contacted Horn and as soon as he left the Navy he went to work in Beeville as a full-time deputy. Two years ...

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  2. I am really glad to know about this. Regards, GoldRead the original story

    Oct 28, 2009 | The Progress Newspaper, Three Rivers, Texas

    ... for Sheriff R.L. "Bob" Horn while he was stationed at NAS Chase Field in the early 1980s. Not long before retiring in Adak, Alaska, Caddell contacted Horn and as soon as he left the Navy he went to work in Beeville as a full-time deputy. Two years ...

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  3. The case for Caddell: Veteran Bee County Sheriff's Dept. investigator joins DA's staffRead the original story

    Oct 26, 2009 | The Progress Newspaper, Three Rivers, Texas

    ... for Sheriff R.L. "Bob" Horn while he was stationed at NAS Chase Field in the early 1980s. Not long before retiring in Adak, Alaska, Caddell contacted Horn and as soon as he left the Navy he went to work in Beeville as a full-time deputy. Two years ...

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  4. Homer's Best Bets

    Oct 7, 2009 | Homer News

    ... on the Spit. This might be the last horrible day we'll have." Of course not. We're Alaskans. Situation normal from Adak to Anaktuvik is chance of snow, lows in the ohmigod it can't be this cold, and snow turning to icebergs breaking off your roof ...

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  5. Tsunami Advisory for CoastRead the original story

    Sep 29, 2009 | KOGO-AM San Diego

    ... a tsunami which could cause damage to coastal regions in a warning or advisory. The waves are expected to first reach Adak, Alaska at 7:25 PM AKDT on September 29. Estimated tsunami arrival times and maps along with safety rules and other ...

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  6. USS Sumner County crew has reunion in GallatinFor 29 years the name...Read the original story

    Sep 18, 2009 | The News-Examiner

    ... gatherings, crewmembers recall specific stories that stand out in their memories. Those stories include a cruise to Adak, Alaska, near the Aleutian Islands, when the ship's hull cracked, and also surviving Typhoon Ida in 1958 during a deployment to ...

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  7. Can you beat this combination?Read the original story

    Sep 2, 2009 | Homer News

    ... state helping refuges with projects ranging from festivals to rat prevention to running the remote refuge station at Adak. Brenda Dolma, a retired teacher, found new ways to share her education and art skills and knowledge with children in a fishing ...

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  8. Rat Island rid of namesake pestRead the original story

    Aug 25, 2009 | Juneau Empire

    ... inhabited it centuries ago. The 10.7-square-mile island is 1,300 miles west of Anchorage and about 200 miles west of Adak, the nearest island inhabited by humans. Rats infested some coastal areas of Alaska when military vessels visited in World War ...

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  9. Rat Island rid of namesake pestRead the original story

    Aug 24, 2009 | Juneau Empire

    ... inhabited it centuries ago. The 10.7-square-mile island is 1,300 miles west of Anchorage and about 200 miles west of Adak, the nearest island inhabited by humans. Rats infested some coastal areas of Alaska when military vessels visited in World War ...

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  10. Nikolski's school might close

    Aug 19, 2009 | KIAL FM / Channel 8 TV

    ... as it has been by the school district." If the count stays low, the students will eventually be considered part of the Adak school for funding purposes. "You go basically go to about $6,000 per student funding and with that you have to purchase ...

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  11. How Things Work: Phased-Array RadarRead the original story w/Photo

    Jul 30, 2009 | Air & Space

    ... or a knuckleball. This summer it will leave Pearl Harbor , where it is being painted, and voyage to its home port of Adak, Alaska , for the first time. After being integrated into the battle management systems of long-range interceptor missiles ...

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  12. Aleutian areas to get siren system

    Jul 29, 2009 | Juneau Empire

    ... The project is being paid for with a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The communities of Adak, Atka, King Cove, Nikolski and St. Paul are to receive the new warning system. Installation already has been completed in ...

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    Related Topix: Tsunami, Natural Disasters, King Cove, AK, Nikolski, AK, Atka, AK, St. Paul, AK

  13. Aleutian, Pribilof communities to get sirensRead the original story

    Jul 25, 2009 | Anchorage Daily News

    ... The project is being paid for with a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The communities of Adak, Atka, King Cove, Nikolski and St. Paul are to receive the new warning system. Installation already has been completed in ...

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    Related Topix: Tsunami, Natural Disasters, King Cove, AK, Atka, AK, St. Paul, AK, Nikolski, AK

  14. Aleutian communities to get siren system

    Jul 24, 2009 | Alaska Journal of Commerce

    ... The project is being paid for with a grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The communities of Adak, Atka, King Cove, Nikolski and St. Paul are to receive the new warning system. Installation already has been completed in ...

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    Related Topix: Tsunami, Natural Disasters, King Cove, AK, Atka, AK, Nikolski, AK, St. Paul, AK

  15. VP-1 welcomes aircrewman from 1950sRead the original story w/Photo

    Jul 23, 2009 | Northwest Navigator

    ... support over the area, working shipping lanes to keep ships out during the tests. He also deployed to Kodiak and Adak, Alaska. For Honer, it was a wonderful chance to reconnect with a part of his past and to catch a glimpse of where the future has ...

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  16. Digital Elevation Model of Adak, Alaska, NOAA National Data Centers, NGDC

    Jul 12, 2009 | GISCafe

    (NOAA), has developed a bathymetrica 'topographic digital elevation model (DEM) of Adak, Alaska (Fig. 1) for the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) NOAA Center for Tsunami Research (HUhttp://nctr.pmel.noaa.gov/UH). The 1 arc-secondF 1 F ...

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  17. Catch a halibut, then cook it up

    Jul 8, 2009 | Homer News

    ... fish, it truly is one of the tastiest. A friend of Japanese descent we knew while the Other Fisherman was stationed on Adak in the Navy many years ago taught me how to prepare the best fried halibut. The secret is to roll it in panko breading (rice ...

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  18. FromnessRead the original story w/Photo

    Jul 1, 2009 | San Diego Reader

    ... and Corpus Christi, Texas (where Heather was born), grade school in San Diego (where Jenny and I were born) and Adak, Alaska, junior high and high school in Newport, Rhode Island, and then back in San Diego, where she and the rest of us graduated ...

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  19. Giant wave hits Semester at Sea shipRead the original story

    Jan 28, 2005 | The Pitt News

    ... wave would look like." The Coast Guard reported Explorer was holding its position approximately 650 miles south of Adak, Alaska until the storm passed yesterday afternoon. From there, it is sailing to Hawaii where damage to the vessel can be ...

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  20. Rats gone from Rat Island; birds found deadRead the original story

    Jun 25, 2009 | Homer News

    ... where such a program would be useful, although some islands are too big to ever get a grip on, including Unalaska and Adak. "With this program we are looking at stepping up to progressively larger islands with an eye to eventually get to Kiska," ...

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