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How budget cuts could affect you
Government agencies are already taking steps to comply with automatic spending cuts that took effect March 1. Some examples: ___ AIRCRAFT CARRIER One of the Navy's premiere warships, the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman, sits pierside in...Tags: Immigration, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, U.S. Department of Defense, Air Transportation Industry, Medicare
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USS Harry S. Truman makes news -- in Russia
Americans aren't the only ones interested in what happens to Norfolk-based aircraft carriers. The Voice of Russia has noted how budget cuts have cancelled the combat deployment of the USS Harry S. Truman. It quotes a story from The Telegraph and notes...Tags: Barack Obama, Russia, Harry S. Truman, U.S. Department of Defense, Military Equipment
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Rep. Randy Forbes visiting shipyards in Hampton Roads
Eyeing budget problems galore, Rep. Randy Forbes, R-Chesapeake, is visiting six shipyards in Hampton Roads today and Friday to gauge how deep cuts in defense spending will hurt business. He'll stop at Newport News Shipbuilding and five shipyards in...
Tags: Norfolk (Norfolk, Virginia), BAE Systems Plc., Hampton Roads, Shipbuilding, Newport News Shipbuilding
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Column: Some questions for Hagel
Senate hearings on the nomination of Chuck Hagel to be defense secretary will be a distinctive Washington entertainment, a donnybrook without drama. He should be confirmed: Presidents are due substantial deference in selecting Cabinet members because they...Tags: Terrorism, Unrest, Conflicts and War, U.S. Congress, U.S. Department of Defense, Israel
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Shipyard, Huntington Ingalls executive shake-ups
Newport News Shipbuilding and its parent company, Huntington Ingalls Industries, have announced several executive moves in the last two months. * Tuesday (Jan. 8), HII announces Chris Miner has been promoted to vice president of Newport News...Tags: Huntington Ingalls Industries, Hampton Roads, Shipbuilding, Newport News Shipbuilding, Accounting and Auditing
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Fusing the Ford
Daily Press photographer Rob Ostermaier spent some time chronicling a day in the life of a late-shift welder at Newport News Shipbuilding. The shipyard's welders ensure the structural integrity of the nation's aircraft carriers and submarines. The...
Tags: Newport News (Newport News, Virginia), Shipbuilding, Gerald Ford, Manufacturing and Engineering
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China's media criticize Clinton's visit to Cook Islands
World NowChina's official media have stepped up criticism of Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton's impending visit to a remote island chain in the South Pacific, complaining that American saber-rattling is disturbing a tranquil region.... -
Report: Man sentenced for selling sub-standard military parts to U.S. Navy
We wanted to post this story from From Kathy Lynn Gray of The Columbus Dispatch about the sentencing of a man who sold the Navy bad military parts. They were used for nuclear equipment as well as F/A-18 jet fighters, which are quite common over the...Tags: Punishment, High Blood Pressure, Crime, Law and Justice, Ronald Reagan, U.S. Navy
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Navy air forces get new commander
CORONADO, Calif. -- The Navy has a new leader of its air arm, following a change-of-command ceremony at the North Island Naval Air Station on Thursday. Vice Adm. David Buss relieved Vice Adm. Allen Myers, who is moving to the Pentagon to be deputy...
Tags: David Petraeus, Dwight D. Eisenhower, United States Naval Academy, The Pentagon, Washington, DC
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USS Sampson returns from deployment
SAN DIEGO -- The guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson is scheduled to return to its homeport of San Diego Friday as the guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay prepares to depart for the Persian Gulf Saturday amid tensions with Iran over its nuclear...
Tags: Missile Systems, Petroleum Industry, Iran's Nuclear Program, Iran, U.S. Navy
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Dealing with Waste Aboard an Aircraft Carrier
FOX40 NewsAn aircraft carrier like the USS John C. Stennis is massive, but any space on the ship is critical. Cmdr. Steven Johnson is an Auxiliary Officer aboard the Stennis and said when there are 6,000 people on a ship that’s a thousand feet long, they...
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