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Trial of yeoman accused of arson set to start next week
The court-martial trial is scheduled to run four days.
By Courtney Mabeus
Engineer claims he was fired for concerns about subs
At issue our the hulls of Virginia-class submarines and whether they're shedding an outer skin made up of sonar-absorbing material that makes them stealthy.
Before there was our Navy, a forest grew
And Virginia's 'Founding Forest' is coming back, one fire at a time.
By Peter Coutu, The Virginian-Pilot
The Navy’s new plan to fix Ford’s elevator failures
With only two of Ford’s 11 elevators operating — and no firm schedule for delivering the remaining nine — the Navy brought a “team of experts” from both the government and private industry on board the Ford to fix the snafus, according to a top Pentagon official.
By Mark D. Faram