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PACIFIC OCEAN (March 12, 2010) Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Recruit Chanda Axton fires a salute battery during a live fire exercise aboard the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). Nimitz and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11 are in transit back to the United States after an eight-month deployment to the Arabian Sea...
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SOUTH CHINA SEA (March 10, 2010) Aviation Boatswain's Mate (Handling) Airman Kashonda Leycock signals for helicopter pilots to exit their aircraft aboard the forward-deployed amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2). (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Greg Johnson/Released) Search: All Any...
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A Marine and a sailor were sitting in a bar one day arguing over which was the superior service. After a swig of beer the Marine says, 'Well, we had Iwo Jima .' Arching his eyebrows, the sailor replies, 'We had the Battle of Midway.' 'Not entirely true', responded the Marine. 'Some of those pilots were Marines; in...
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who ' belittled' them Standing on the bridge of her warship with the ocean before her and a crew of men awaiting her command, the future looked fantastic for Captain Holly Graf, the first American to take charge of a US Navy cruiser. She came from a respected naval family - her father was also a captain and her...
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WHAT PERSUADED YOU TO JOIN THE SERVICE? I was 14 years old and working at the local drugstore as the delivery boy and soda jerk when I heard over the radio of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. I was angry as hell, even at age 14, and wanted to join the service and get back at the Japs for killing all our men at...
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"Gringos dropping from the sky?" ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 10, 2010) Argentina navy officers and pilots conduct low approach fly-bys over the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson is off the coast of Argentina in support of Southern Seas 2010, a U.S. Southern Command-directed operation that provides U.S....
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The USS Constitution will continue firing its cannons twice a day across Boston Harbor as it has done for more than 200 years despite the objections of well-heeled neighbors. Timothy Cooper, the commanding officer of the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, told the Boston Herald that he has decided to...
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Astronaut legends Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Gene Cernan, visited USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, March 9 and 10, as part of the "Legends of Aerospace" Tour sponsored by Morale Entertainment. Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the moon, July 20, Cernan, the last man on the moon, and Lovell, commander of Apollo 13,...
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ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 3, 2010) An F/A-18 Super Hornet performs maneuvers during a flight demonstration aboard the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70). Carl Vinson is underway supporting Southern Seas 2010. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Adrian White/Released)

"just need an aspirin~already got a Purple Heart" the United States Postal Service deserves a standing ovation for something that's going to happen this month: Bill Mauldin is getting his own postage stamp. Mauldin died at age 81 in the early days of 2003. The end of his life had been rugged. He had been scalded in a...
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Why I'm Thankful for George W. Bush By Ken Russell On October 23, 1983 the Marine Corps Battalion Landing Team (BLT) building located at the Beirut International Airport was blown up. Two hundred twenty Marines, 18 Sailors and 3 Soldiers were killed in a split second by a suicide bomber. I wasn't there at the time. I...
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RED SEA (March 2, 2010) Aviation Ordnanceman 3rd Class Jonathan Flemming checks the ordnance mounted to an AV-8B Harrier on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship USS Nassau (LHA 4). Nassau, the command platform for the Nassau Amphibious Ready Group, and Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (24th...
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A Navy captain turned the Pacific into the world's strangest drag strip -- ordering two warships to stage a bizarre race that one sailor said nearly ended in tragedy, a high-ranking military official told The Post yesterday. "Multiple witnesses interviewed by the [inspector general] and the commanding officers of both ...
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Holly Graf has defended her swearing. Photo: AP WASHINGTON: The US Navy has fired a foul-mouthed captain for subjecting her crew to ''cruelty and maltreatment'' aboard a warship in the Pacific. Captain Holly Graf, the commander of the USS Cowpens, a guided-missile cruiser, was relieved of duty in January after an...
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FARM KID IN THE ARMY Dear Ma and Pa, I am well. Hope you are. Tell Brother Walt and Brother Elmer the Army beats working for old man Minch by a mile. Tell them to join up quick before all of the places are filled. I was restless at first because you get to stay in bed till nearly 6 a.m. But I am getting so I like to...
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firsthand account by the pilot of aircraft #13 on the Doolittle Raid off the Hornet in 1942. Take the time and enjoy a bit of history: My name is Edgar McElroy. My friends call me "Mac". I was born and raised in Ennis , Texas the youngest of five children, son of Harry and Jennie McElroy. Folks say that I was the...
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Hundreds of U.S. Marines landed on the remote island of Iwo Jima on Tuesday to prepare for the 65th anniversary of one of World War II's bloodiest and most iconic battles. The Marines flew in trucks, water and food from Washington to support Wednesday's commemorations of the 1945 battle that was a turning point in the ...
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SOUTH CHINA SEA (Feb. 28, 2010) Marines assigned to Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (31st MEU), train on the BGM-71 tube-launched, optically tracked, wire-guided missile weapons system aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49). Harpers...
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SEA OF JAPAN (March 3, 2010) An F/A-18C Hornet assigned to the Warhawks of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 97 launches from the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz (CVN 68). The Nimitz and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 11 are deployed to the western Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class...
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In Alan Cooper’s The Inmates Are Running the Asylum, he poses a question: What do you get when you cross a warship with a computer? In the example he provides, the USS Yorktown was conducting fleet maneuvers in the Atlantic; a Navy technician was calibrating an on-board fuel valve and entered a zero into one of the...
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