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    Rethink the ‘J’ in JPME
      Perhaps more than “jointness,” the Navy needs warfighters who understand the service beyond their own designator.  Not to...
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    The Marine Corps Needs Organic Air Defense
    The Army’s multimission launcher (part of the indirect-fire protection program) will provide 360-degree protection and engage threats arriving...
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    Surface Warfare Officers Need Mariner Credentials
    The crew of MV Sunshine State takes the ship to sea from Pascagoula, Mississippi. The U.S. Navy would benefit from formally adopting civilian...
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    Oceans: Russia Developing New Arctic LNG Marine Routes
    The Christophe de Margerie-class ships are highly capable icebreaking LNG carriers designed to break five feet of ice while sailing continuously. (...
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    More Comment & Discussion from January
    Realistic Trauma Training Hones Surgical Teams (See J. Malone, et al., pp. 54–57, December 2018) Captain Malone and his coauthors skirt...
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    Northrop Awarded $27.6M Contract to Build First Two SEWIP Block III Ship Sets

    ARLINGTON, Va. — Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract to bring a modern electronic...

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    Aegis Combat System Baseline 10 Set to IOC in 2023

    ARLINGTON, Va.— Lockheed Martin’s latest Aegis combat weapon system upgrade – Baseline 10 – will...

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    As Navy Moves Beyond Relearning the Basics to Focusing on Lethality, So Too Do Navy Trainers

    ARLINGTON, Va. – In 2018, the Navy stressed the basics of training, crew qualifications and...

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    DIA Chinese Military Power Report

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    4,500 Marines, F-35 Squadron on Standby in Middle East as U.S. Mulls Syria Exit

    Two Navy amphibious ready groups and about 4,500 shipboard Marines are on standby in the Middle...

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    Naval History contributors range from professional historians to veterans to history buffs. But, for the magazine’s staff...

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    As I Recall — ‘The Defining Moment in My Life’

    Admiral Smith spent part of his youth on a farm in Alabama. While a freshman at the University of Alabama, he decided to apply for the U.S....

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    Decatur and the Prisoners

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    Frederick Leiner’s “Killing the Prisoners” from the...

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    Armaments & Innovations—The 74—the Perfect Age-of-Sail Ship

    In the spring of 1747, France sent a convoy of 30 merchantmen to bring reinforcements and supplies to its beleaguered troops in North America. The...

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    Female Navy Recruits Get First 'Dixie Cup' Hats at Boot Camp
    The Navy's Recruit Training Command at Great Lakes Illinois marked another milestone in efforts to make uniforms more gender-specific Monday when fema...
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    China aims to prepare military for battle by ending paid contract work
    China has ordered its armed forces to end all paid outside work within three years as part of a push to make the world's largest standing military mor...
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    Navy: 8 Sailors Aboard Carrier USS Eisenhower Hurt During Landing
    Eight sailors were injured aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower during an aircraft landing off Virginia's coast, the Navy said....
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    U.S., South Korea stage assault drill; North threatens to wipe out enemies
    U.S. and South Korean troops staged a big amphibious landing exercise on Saturday, storming simulated North Korean beach defenses. ...
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    Marine Corps Wants Funding to Improve Security at Recruiting Centers
    Ten months after a gunman opened fire in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Corps is still working to bolster the security of its recruiting officers....
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    The Knowing Sea: The Dawn of Smart and Ubiquitous SDR

    Software-defined radio (SDR), or virtual radio, is creating an unprecedented, “knowing sea” and will profoundly challenge the Navy’s ability to...

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    On Midrats 13 January 2019 – Episode 471: Over the horizon, under the radar, & in your MEZ: ASCM & ASBM

    Please join us at 5pm (EST) on 13 January 2019 for Midrats Episode 471: Over the horizon, under the radar, & in your MEZ: ASCM & ASBM This...

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    Assessing the Sea of Azov Littoral Battlespace

    On 25 November 2018, three Ukrainian naval vessels (two gunboats and a tug) were making their way from Odessa in the Black Sea to Mariupol in the...

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    SPECIAL EDITION: Coast Guard Survival Guide for the Government Shutdown

    <sits down at computer, takes deep breath, and prays he can get through this with a straight face> On 9 January, The Washington Post...

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    Questionable Influence

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    USS Houston (CL-81) Plans 43rd Reunion

      The 43rd Annual Reunion of the USS Houston (CL-81) will be held September 11th – 15th, 2019, at the Hilton Garden Inn Louisville...

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    Angels of the Oriskany – Fire!

    I sent my father’s cousin Dale Barck a postcard during a port call to Hong Kong in 1997, he replied sending me letters filled with sea stories...

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    Heroes in Camouflage

    We are very familiar with the names of famous naval leaders and heroes of World War I. But there are hundreds of other individuals whose efforts...

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    World War One – USS Olympia’s Sailors

    On 6 April 1917, the USS Olympia (C-6) was in transit, sailing from St. Thomas, Virgin Islands to Hampton Roads, Virginia. A gale was blowing from...

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    U.S. Navy’s All-Time Top Fighter Ace

    This oral history contains the candid recollections of the U.S. Navy’s all-time top fighter ace, Captain David McCampbell. He earned the...

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