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MSN MoneyCentral - Navy’s satisfaction. In particular, the QTA reviewed and assessed the following major DDG 1000 design and development categories: System Integration, Ship Detail Design, Mission System Equipment Development, Mission System Design and System
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Cubic Gets $32.8 Million Navy Contract
MSN MoneyCentral - SAN DIEGO (AP) - Cubic Corp., which makes simulators for military training and fare-collection systems for mass transit, said Thursday its defense division received a five-year, $32.8 million contract from the Naval Air Systems Command to provide
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‘Super’ Typhoon Slams Tiny Wake Island
FOX News - Super Typhoon Ioke, a Category 5 storm and the strongest to hit the Pacific in more than a decade, slammed into tiny Wake Island Thursday, threatening to submerge the U.S. territory, U.S. Navy weather forecasters said. The storm, packing sustained
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Joseph Stiles Jr., 80, Was Veteran, Avid Gardener
Vineyard Gazette - Joseph served his country in the Navy during World War II. He was stationed on the Vineyard, where he met and married Mary Cecilio. Being an avid gardener, Joseph worked many years for Morrice Florist, Rod’s and Woodlawn Garden Center. He was a
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Other conduct called improper and outrageous, but not illegal
Charleston Gazette - Mustang Survival, Wirt County s largest private employer, plans to hire 45 people by the end of the year after securing a federal contract to make anti-gravity suits for U.S. Navy and Air Force fighter pilots, the company announced Wednesday.
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Air Force Times - Funeral services for retired Army Maj. Gen. Kathryn Frost, 57, former commander of the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, will be held Sept. 15 at the chapel at Fort Myer, Va. She will be buried with full military honors at Arlington National
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IA, IP in Ad Diwaniyah Repel Attack
Black Anthem - Blackanthem Military News, DIWANIYAH, Iraq — Iraqi Army and police forces successfully fended off an attack by a large group of terrorists in the Al Eufrat, Al Jumhuri and Al Nahda districts of Ad Diwaniyah after a 12-hour battle today that ended at
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Israeli reservists call for resignation of Olmert
Lexington Herald-Leader - Olmert, Peretz, Halutz, go home,” say the signs, calling for the resignation of the prime minister along with Defense Minister Amir Peretz and the army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz, because of their handling of Israel’s recent war against
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Mahdi army: no mercy, no trial
Seattle Times - Iraqi militiamen of the Mahdi army, loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, carry mock coffins symbolizing comrades killed during fighting with the U.S. in a parade this month in the Sadr City neighborhood of Baghdad to mark the second anniversary of
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Chappaqua Army reservist, 55, prepares for tour in Iraq
journalnews.com - Lt. Col. Kerry MacNeal has a ready response when his wife, Linda, questions the sacrifices he makes for his Army Reserve service. “Are we enjoying peace and prosperity in this country?” he asks. And now that he is headed to Iraq for the first time
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Kennedy letter helps troops get flight home
WNYT - That’s when Kennedy got involved, sending a letter to the Secretary of the Army asking that the Army fly the soldiers back to New England. Kennedy was told Sunday that a plane had been secured. The senator says putting the soldiers on a bus was not an
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Marion graduate tours with Army band
Courier Gazette - Army Sgt. 1st Class Allen Bishop is a member of the U.S. Army Field Band, the official Army’s touring musical organization, headquartered at Fort George G. Meade in Maryland. Bishop has been touring the U.S. on its summer concert performances. The
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34 killed in clashes between Shiite militia and Iraqi army
KBCI 2 Boise - DIWANIYAH, Iraq At least 34 people have been killed and at least 70 injured in clashes between the Iraqi army and a powerful Shiite militia. Officials say the battles in the southern town of Diwaniyah (dee-wah-NEE’-yah) started last night when
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Think Tanks Say Two Choppers Would Reinforce Corps’ Battered Fleet, But Money Is Issue Sikorsky Aircraft helicopters made for the U.S. Navy and Canada could reinforce a battered and shrinking U.S. Marine Corps helicopter fleet, according to a pair of Washington-area think tanks - if only the Marines could afford them.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to . . . the Navy 
THE extraordinary courage of the Few, the Battle of Britain fighter pilots who protected the country from the might of the Luftwaffe, and stopped a full-scale invasion by Germany, remains one of the great stories of the Second World War.
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Veteran’s close call in 1971 changes life 
The journey that brought Charlie Morris to a volunteer job at a concession stand at Firestone Country Club this week began on a Navy helicopter in Vietnam on Jan. 9, 1971.
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