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USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker: Jan. 14, 2019

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Handling the San Antonio-Class LPD

By Lieutenant Michael Murphy and Captain Brent DeVore, U.S. Navy
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The Marine Corps Needs Organic Air Defense

By Lieutenant John Miller, U.S. Navy
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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...

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...

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...

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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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...

Aegis Combat System Baseline 10 Set to IOC in 2023

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

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...

DIA Chinese Military Power Report

The following is the Defense Intelligence Agency report, China Military Power that was published...

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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Navy Divers Recover Oil from German Shipwreck

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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...

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...

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...

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....

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. ...

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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Fighting the Future AirSea Battle

Establishing air-support operations centers at sea is the key to defeating potential dynamic maritime threats.Uproar 11, a flight of two F/A-18E Super...

Expanding the Non-Kinetic Warfare Arsenal

To meet the challenges and threats of the information age, the Navy is realizing that cyberspace means a lot more than just the Internet.The definitio...

Oceans - Race to the Bottom of the Sea—Seven Miles Deep

In 2010 three groups announced plans to develop and send a manned submersible to the deepest place in the World Ocean, the almost seven-miles-down &ld...

The Transformation (Again!) of the Surface Navy

In the 1980s, the Tomahawk cruise missile expanded the surface Navy’s role; in the 2000s, new technologies continue to enhance surface warfare&r...

Maximizing Minimum Manning

The Navy can get more from less. Using fewer but better-prepared engineers will cut costs and improve readiness. The key is in the training.Few days p...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

Questionable Influence

On 14 December 2018 the Washington Post reported that former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus had been selected for commission as a...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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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Proceedings Magazine - June 2017 Vol. 143/6/1,372

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...