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The Choctaw County, the second of the Navy's new joint high-speed vessels designed for rapid intratheater transport of troops and equipment, was christened Saturday in Mobile, Alabama.
Objections by Sudan's government have held up the security mission of an elite Marine team that the U.S. planned to send to Khartoum, a U.S. official said Saturday.
All six Chinese surveillance ships have left Japanese-controlled waters after briefly conducting a patrol mission near a group of disputed islands, Japan's coast guard says.
Adm. Bill Gortney relieved Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., as USFF commander in a traditional ceremony Friday on board the USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75) in Norfolk.
The Navy's newest littoral combat ship, Fort Worth (LCS-3), sailed from Naval Station Mayport, Fla., Sept. 13, on the final leg of its maiden voyage to its commissioning in Galveston, Texas.
Rep. Duncan Hunter says the Navy should consider building fewer littoral combat ships and use the savings for amphibious warships to support Marine Corps operations.
Defense Secretary Leon Panetta will soon be traveling to China and Japan, amid escalating tensions in the region including tussles over several disputed islands in the East China Sea.