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A foundation set up to celebrate Navy aviation's 100th anniversary has disavowed an official history on its Web site, after former combat pilots complained of inaccuracies and political correctness.
The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff has arrived in the Middle East for talks with military and civilian leaders in a region where popular uprisings and political turmoil have captured world attention for weeks.
The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said Thursday that the Pentagon is developing new battle plans for Asia that include adding Marines to better-coordinated naval and air forces in the region where China is expanding its military might.
Before Monday's White House announcement of $78 billion in defense cuts, Americans leaned toward saying the government is spending too much on national defense rather than too little.
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates is appealing to new, fiscally minded conservatives in Congress to help him kill plans to build an alternate engine for the Joint Strike Fighter.
The daughter and several descendants of the Navy's first aviator visited Naval Air Station, North Island, for the base's open house and the Centennial of Naval Aviation's Parade of Flight.
In a masterful bit of choreography, exactly 189 aircraft were brought together in cloudless skies above San Diego Bay Saturday to celebrate a century of naval aviation in the city where it was born.
The Navy celebrates its centennial of flying today. But looking ahead to the next 100 years, or even the next decade, Navy aviation may be a tailless airplane, flown by a nonpilot with enlisted stripes on his sleeve.
The Navy will hold a decommissioning ceremony for Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Memphis (SSN 691) aboard Naval Submarine Base (NSB) New London, Conn., April 1.