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    A Christmas Eve Mass for the Living (See C. Fuss, pp. 68–69, December 2018)
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    The Cyber Issue! This month’s focus is on cyber warfare, and many of the feature articles are fruits of the Naval Institute’s Cyber Essay...
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    Leadership Forum: Correct the Navy's Character Problem
    The Navy should strengthen the character side of the Navy Leadership Development Framework to eradicate “goal sickness” and address long...
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    “A good teacher, like a good entertainer, first must hold his audience’s attention, then he can teach his lesson.” John Henrik...
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    World Naval Developments: F-35B Expands Definition of 'Aircraft Carriers'
    The helicopter-carrying Japanese destroyers Izumo (DDH-183), shown, and Kaga (DDH-184) will undergo modifications to allow them to carry F-35B...
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    WEST: Marines Expanding Sea Control Laboratory to Test Command and Control Concepts, Gear

    SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Marines are expanding its shore-based, sea control test lab to help...

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    Navy Eyes New Ship Repair Contracting to Boost On-Time Delivery; Public Yards’ Performance Improving

    SAN DIEGO – Just 30 percent of the Navy’s destroyers come out of maintenance availabilities on...

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    Navy Rolls Out NavalX Agility Office to Connect Innovators With Support, Tools

    SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy rolled out a Naval Expeditions (NavalX) Agility Office that will...

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    CEO: Steady Flow of Navy Contracts Will Keep HII Building for Years

    With a two-aircraft carrier buy approved, contracts for two National Security Cutters and a...

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    WEST: New Rules Are Giving Surface Commanders More Latitude in How They Train

    SAN DIEGO, Calif. – The Navy is giving more power to surface ship commanders to shape the...

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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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    Salty Goes to Admiral’s Mast

    Salty Goes to Admiral’s Mast By The Salty Millennial The following is an excerpt from the non-judicial punishment proceedings of The Salty...

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    Cheer Up!: Naval Education is More Than a Classroom

    This week, Secretary of the Navy Richard Spencer announced the results of the Education for Seapower (E4S) Study, which conducted a “clean sheet”...

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    Do We Need a Flag Officer Public Affairs Stand Down?

    It has been 18-months since the center point of the tragic 2017 in WESTPAC that begat the 100% avoidable death of 17 of our Sailors. Both legally...

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    A Tale of Two Ceremonies

    3 May 2017 It was the best of crimes, it was the worst of crimes (sorry, I couldn’t resist!). Actually, it wasn’t a crime at all, at least...

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    In Search of an Onus, The Forest and Trees Have Blame to Spare

    Last week saw the publication of two long-form pieces by the website ProPublica on the 2017 collisions at sea involving the USS Fitzgerald (DDG-62...

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    CAC-7: Skeet for the Fleet

    I am only 20 years old and the Soviets are going to shoot me down? That is NOT what I had in mind when our crew took off this morning! Like all...

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    A Step Forward

    On 15 March 1947, one month to the day before Jackie Robinson became the first black player in baseball’s major leagues, John Wesley Lee Jr....

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    The Loss of the USS Macon, 12 February 1935

      Following graduation from the Naval Academy in 1924, Harold B. Miller spent two years in the crew of the battleship USS California (BB-44)...

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    What to do when your commander burns his own perfectly good fleet?

    If you ever find yourself in command of an invading army, and surrounded by a numerically superior enemy hell-bent on your destruction, it is...

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    From Vindictive to Dainty: The Extremes of Royal Navy Ship Names

    The Royal Navy is steeped in tradition and history. Its mighty fleets were the envy of the world and enabled the British to run a global empire...

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    Recent Honorary and Memorial Gifts Gifts of support to the Naval Institute have been made in the name of the following: In honor of: A. Denis Clift, by Keith Hahn Jennifer Grove, by Robert Rose, DDS LCDR Robert B. Leet, USNR (Ret.), by Tracy Jaquier...
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