Courts-Martial Cast Spotlight on Abuse

Three courts-martial over sex-related crimes at the Naval Academy — including rape charges against the football team's star quarterback — are set for this summer, as the school remains under pressure to reduce sexual assaults.

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Navy and Whale Advocates Settle Sonar Suit

The Navy said it will use active sonar during warfare exercises off Hawaii as early as this weekend, after reaching an agreement with environmentalists who claimed it poses a threat to whales and other sea life.

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Navy Data Again Found on Public Web Site

For the second time in two weeks, Social Security numbers and other personal information of Navy personnel have been discovered on an Internet site, triggering an investigation.

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Admiral Seeks Agreement Over Whales, Sonar

The Navy asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to block a court order that prevents it from using active sonar during its war-game exercises off Hawaii, an environmental group said.

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Navy, Environmentalists Battle Over Whales

While the Navy was staging war games and hunting down "enemy" submarines with sonar off the island of Kauai two summers ago, more than 150 lost and disoriented whales were swimming chaotically in the shallows of Hanalei Bay.

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Whale Concerns Halt Use of Navy Sonar

A federal judge on Monday temporarily barred the Navy from using a high-intensity sonar that could harm marine mammals during war games that began last week in the Pacific Ocean.

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Sonar Exercise Set Despite Whale Lawsuit

The Defense Department granted the Navy a national security exemption Friday to use sonar during maritime exercises off both coasts for the next six months, letting the service sidestep a lawsuit that sought to protect whales near Hawaii from the noise.

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Groups Sue to Stop Navy From Using Sonar

Environmental groups sued the federal government Wednesday to prevent the Navy from using active sonar during drills off Hawaii next month, saying the sound could harm whales and other marine mammals.

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Navy to Use Sonar That May Affect Whales

Federal regulators granted the Navy a permit Tuesday to use sonar in a maritime exercise despite environmentalists' concerns it could disturb or even kill whales and dolphins.

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Sailors' Data on Internet Tied to Katrina

The Navy says that some of the sailors and families whose personal data was discovered last week on a civilian Web site had been affected by Hurricane Katrina.

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Fighter Jets Collide; 1 Pilot Dies, 1 Hurt

Two Navy fighter jets collided Monday over a military base, killing one pilot and injuring another, authorities said.

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Sailors' Personal Data Posted on the Web

The Navy has begun a criminal investigation after Social Security numbers and other personal data for 28,000 sailors and family members were found on a civilian Web site.

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Scientists Work on Cooled Electronics

Researchers are trying to develop cryogenically cooled electronics that will greatly reduce the size of the electric generators the Navy's warships need to power radar, propulsion, weapons systems and other electronics.

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Piece of Navy Jet Washes Up in Ireland

A tail section from a U.S. Navy fighter jet that crashed 3 1/2 years ago off Key West, Fla., has turned up 4,900 miles away on a beach in Ireland.

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Sailors Getting Soldiers' Training in S.C.

Navy sailors are trading their sea legs for dry land combat skills to help them survive in war zones, and the training is coming from an unusual place — the Army.

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8 Sailors Charged in Marriage Scheme

Eight sailors were charged Tuesday with arranging sham marriages to Polish and Romanian women to help the women obtain U.S. citizenship and to collect bigger military housing allowances for themselves.

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Navy Says Sikorsky Strike Depleting Parts

A five-week-old strike at Sikorsky Aircraft is causing "rapidly dwindling" supplies of spare parts for a military helicopter used in Iraq and around the world, a U.S. Navy spokesman said.

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Navy Ship Collides With Tanker in Gulf

A U.S. Navy destroyer collided with an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf off Iraq, slightly injuring four people, the Navy said Sunday.

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Navy Agrees to Extend EDS Contract

The Navy said Friday it has extended by three years a multi-billion-dollar contract under which Electronic Data Systems Corp. is building a communications network for the Navy and Marine Corps.

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Man Gets 4 Years for 1968 Navy Killing

A former Navy seaman who killed a shipmate nearly 40 years ago after getting caught stealing from the ship's safe was sentenced Friday to four years in prison.

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Navy Jet Crashes in Oregon; Four Eject

A Navy jet crashed in the remote northeastern corner of Oregon during a routine training mission Friday. All four crew members ejected safely, officials said.

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Navy Commissions Anti-Terror Force Unit

Six years after suicide bombers in an explosives-laden boat blew a hole in the USS Cole in Yemen, the Navy on Thursday commissioned its first active-duty unit with the job of thwarting a repeat of the attack that killed 17 sailors.

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US Army 'to end Halliburton deal'

Last Updated: Wednesday, 12 July 2006, 16:57 GMT 17:57 UK E-mail this to a friend Printable version US Army 'to end Halliburton deal' US soldier on patrol in Iraq Halliburton ensures US soldiers are fed and sheltered Halliburton shares have fallen almost 1% on reports the …

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BetaNews | Navy Investigating Personal Data Leak

Navy at a loss to explain how loss of personal data occurred.

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Aircraft Carrying Russian Navy Chief Crashes in Crimea

A pair of air crashes in Russia. Not necessarily related to each other or to other current events but given the current geopolitical climate worth exploring more closely. Has someone made a move against Russia? If so, we may want to look for retaliation . . .

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Nation States 4.3; Syria no arms deals

Russian officials publicly denied that any arms shipments to Syria have been made. "We have no arms deals, have no evidence there are complete agreements or deals on this,"

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Citizens Celebrate Birthday of John Paul Jones.

John Paul Jones; Father of the American Navy. Now that's something to be proud of!

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U.S. Increasing Operations in Gulf of Guinea

A Pentagon scribe tries to spin a growing U.S. military presence off the coast of Africa.

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Navy in Hot Water for Undersea Trainings - The NewStandard

by NewStandard Staff July 5 – Environmentalists this week attacked the US Navy over the environmental impact of its underwater training exercises in the waters off Washington State and Hawaii.

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Sri Lankan Navy Shells Packed Church

PESALI, June 23 (UPI) — Sri Lankan navy personnel fired on a Roman Catholic church packed with frightened Tamils, killing six and injuring dozens, church leaders say.

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Look Out, Pyongyang? Rail Gun in the Works

"One of the big selling points of the Navy's new destroyer is that it can rain a whole lot of hell -- 20 rocket-propelled artillery shells, in less than a minute -- on targets up to 63 nautical miles away.

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The War Against the Maritime Power

If the United States and Russia are fighting a low intensity war then it begs the question: what are the elements of the Russian strategy to defeat the United States? Russian strategy against the United States would focus on four goals:

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Honoring Sacagawea: Billings woman to attend ship christening ceremony named for her famous relative

Native Women of yesterday and today honored.

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Shackles removed from confined Marines, sailor

Military officials on Friday said they have decided to remove shackles put on seven confined Marines and one sailor whenever they’re outside their individual cells at the Camp Pendleton brig, a Marine Corps spokesman said.

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The War Against the Continental Power

I've long suspected that the War on Terror is far more than what appears on the surface.

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American troops in shackles

Did you know there are seven young Marines and a Navy corpsman sitting in a military brig right now in leg and wrist shackles -- despite the fact that they've not been charged with any crime?

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San Antonio Tests Osprey Flight Operations Capabilities

USS San Antonio, At Sea - The U.S.

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Male stripper stabbed at bachelorette party - CNN Video

Only in Bakersfield, really. A male stripper, also a former Navy, paid for by one of the party goers' husband, got stabbed to death. Not even out of a jealousy rage.

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Is Russia building a naval base in Syria?

Russia is dredging the Syrian port of Tartus, where a Russian Navy maintenance station is located, according to Kommersant, a Russian business journal.

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Sinking of the Oriskany to form artifical reef

Larry Wheeler writes: A U.S. Navy warship whose service stretched from the Korean to the Vietnam wars surrendered to the sea Wednesday after explosive charges sent the vessel to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Navy chaplain at center of prayer controversy to be court-martialed

Klingenschmitt, an evangelical Episcopal priest assigned to the chaplain's office at Norfolk Naval Station, has protested what he says is his right to lead evangelical Episcopal prayers, rather than nonsectarian prayers, when speaking to sailors of all faiths.

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Navy Sinks Aircraft Carrier to Create Reef - Yahoo! News

Navy divers detonated explosives Wednesday aboard the USS Oriskany, sending the retired aircraft carrier on a 212-foot plunge to bottom of the Gulf of Mexico to create the world's largest intentional reef.

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New charges expected in China sanctioned defense data theft ring

Espionage is to be expected here: China may be a critical trade partner, a country to be courted when needed, but it is not a friend and indeed a rival that seeks to undermine the US and steal from it, as this incident shows.

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China seeks good-looking sailors

Officials say anyone joining the service in 2006 must be good-looking, tall and polite.

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$500 million Northrop Grumman aid in bill is passed in Senate

So, all those donations do pay off after all. Northrop Grumman will get $500 million in government relief due to damages caused by Hurricane Katrina.

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I was just hunting UFOs, says Pentagon's UK hacker

To the United States, he is a seriously dangerous man who put the nation's security at risk by committing "the biggest military computer hack of all time." But Briton Gary McKinnon says he is just an ordinary computer nerd who wanted to find out whether aliens and UFOs exist.

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Scientists get a taste for superhuman senses

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