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Vice Adm. John Stufflebeem seemed to have it all. He rose from deck seaman to a Naval Academy football star whose punting prowess earned him the nickname “Boomer” and a part-time practice gig with the Detroit Lions.
  • 3 commanding officers fired in one week
    One Japan-based carrier air wing skipper and two Hampton Roads, Va.-area commanding officers were fired the week of May 4 due to “loss of confidence” in their ability to command.
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 9:39:37 EDT
  • Weak! No carrier-robot in next Transformers
    Sailors and Navy devotees upset that the sea service got almost no screen time in Michael Bay’s 2007 blockbuster “Transformers” — which spotlighted the rest of the military...
    Posted Saturday May 10, 2008 11:44:06 EDT
  • Sadr City cease-fire signed, impact unclear
    BAGHDAD — Iraq’s main Shiite political bloc and supporters of firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr signed a fragile cease-fire in Baghdad’s Sadr City on Monday, hoping to end seven...
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 16:13:03 EDT
  • Maine senators try to save third DDG 1000
    Anxious that their home-state shipyard could lose billions of federal dollars if it doesn’t build an advanced new Navy destroyer, Maine’s two senators are going to bat in Congress for the...
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 16:11:23 EDT
  • As ice melts, N. Command eyes Arctic patrols
    WASHINGTON — As the Arctic ice cap shrinks, the Defense Department is eyeing the expanding navigable waters as possible entry points for security threats that must be monitored more closely,...
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 17:04:29 EDT
  • Japanese court rejects anti-carrier lawsuit
    TOKYO — A Japanese court rejected a lawsuit Monday demanding a halt to harbor work to accommodate a U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that is set to be based south of Tokyo starting in...
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 9:28:17 EDT
  • C-130, 50 airmen first in to Myanmar
    An. Air Force quick-response task force delivered its first C-130 cargo jet full of supplies Monday to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar, where up to 2 million face disease and starvation.
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 17:27:19 EDT
  • Firm looks to improve on pilot piddle pack
    MILTON, Vt. — It’s a dilemma as old as manned flight: When you gotta go, how do you go?
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 10:31:51 EDT
  • Anti-stress dolls cheer deployed troops
    CAYCE, S.C. — A South Carolina grandmother has become a sensation among stressed-out U.S. military men and women around the globe by sending the most incongruous of gifts: pliable, google-eye...
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 10:12:58 EDT
  • Coast Guard ends search for missing couple
    SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard has called off a search at sea for an Oceanside couple who went missing this week.
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 6:53:34 EDT
  • Cruiser to visit Maine tourist town in June
    WASHINGTON — A Navy cruiser will call in Boothbay Harbor during the coastal resort town’s Windjammer Days Festival next month.
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 8:26:38 EDT
  • Report: Al-Qaida calls for attacks at sea
    An article posted on an Islamist Web site in April urged Muslim fighters to begin attacking warships and merchant traffic in the strategic choke points around the Arabian Peninsula, according to a...
    Posted Sunday May 11, 2008 9:36:06 EDT
  • Air Force pays $5M for childbirth malpractice
    The Air Force has paid a civilian employee $5 million for severe brain damage suffered by his baby during childbirth at the U.S. Naval Hospital in Okinawa, Japan.
    Posted Friday May 9, 2008 16:58:49 EDT
  • 3 flag officer assignments announced
    Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead announced three flag officer assignments Thursday.
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 10:42:48 EDT
  • Care costs rise as veteran population declines
    WASHINGTON — Increasing numbers of U.S. troops have left the military with damaged bodies and minds, an ever-larger pool of disabled veterans that will cost the country billions of dollars for...
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 10:43:51 EDT
  • Naval Academy sports complex dedicated
    ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The Naval Academy has dedicated its new field house in honor of the first black man to graduate from the school.
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 10:43:20 EDT
  • A backbone to her soldier, her family
    Renee Garcia knew she was representing thousands of other military moms as she accepted Operation Homefront’s inaugural Military Motherhood Award.
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 6:28:51 EDT
  • Military considering new cremation policies
    WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is recommending changes in the handling of troops’ remains, after it was revealed that a crematorium contracted by the military handles both human and animal...
    Posted Sunday May 11, 2008 16:22:54 EDT
  • Frigate Ingraham returns
    EVERETT, Wash. — An Everett-based Navy ship, the frigate Ingraham, is returning to its home port. The homecoming Friday ends a deployment that began in November and took the ship to the Western...
    Posted Sunday May 11, 2008 16:46:03 EDT
  • 31st MEU arrives in Thailand for Cobra Gold
    Marines and sailors with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit arrived off the coast of southern Thailand on Thursday to participate in Cobra Gold 2008, a multinational exercise focusing on regional...
    Posted Monday May 12, 2008 8:09:32 EDT

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