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    Explosive Ordnance Disposal Unit 11 Sailors and NASA personnel during an underway recovery test with the USS John P. Murtha (LPD-26). This...
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      Episode 48: November 2, 2018
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    The Navy Needs a New Engine of Innovation
    The Chief of Naval Operations’ Strategic Studies Group lost its edge, but the service needs another innovation cell like the ones behind...
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    The November Proceedings is our annual Marine Corps-focused issue, corresponding with the Corps’ birthday. I recently had two wonderful...
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    U.S. Underwater Mapping Firm Finds Wreckage of Missing Argentine Sub

    After a year-long search, the wreckage of the missing Argentine submarine ARA San Juan (S-42)...

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    Littoral Combat Ship Sioux City Set to Commission on Saturday at the Naval Academy

    The future USS Sioux City (LCS -11) is moored at U.S. Naval Academy for a commissioning...

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    DoD Official: U.S. Needs to Develop New Counters to Future Hypersonic Missiles

    Existing radars don’t provide the almost-split-second warning needed to keep Guam, carrier...

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    VIDEO: Reagan, Stennis Carrier Strike Groups Conduct Dual Operations In Philippine Sea

    The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group and the John C. Stennis Carrier Strike Group are...

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    Carrier Eisenhower Leaves Repair Yard to Finish Maintenance at Naval Station Norfolk

    Aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69) has departed Norfolk Naval Shipyard and is...

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    As I Recall

    Vice Admiral Bernard L. Austin (1902–79) had a distinguished naval career that included service in World War II, the Korean War, and the...

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    Bluejacket's Manual — The Bullseye: 'Navigating' within a Ship

    Just as a town or city has a system using street signs and addresses to help you find your way around, so does a Navy ship. Each space in a Navy...

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    Pacific ‘Gem’s’ Rescue Role

    Commander Thomas “Duke” Wayne, U.S. Naval Reserve (Retired)

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    Museum Report: The Torpedo Bay Navy Museum

    The Royal New Zealand Navy’s Torpedo Bay Navy Museum, on a bluff overlooking Waitemata Harbour at the east end of King Edward Parade in...

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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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    On Midrats 18 November 2018 – Episode 463: Audience, Approach, and Obstacles in Military Communications

    Please join us at 5pm EST on 18 November 2018 for Midrats Episode 463: Audience, Approach, and Obstacles in Military Communications How can our...

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    Challenging Navy Culture to Leverage Untapped Human Capital

    A couple of months ago, I fired off a satirical response to what I perceived as unhelpful generational criticism. When the editors at the Naval...

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    For the want of a drydock

    “For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of...

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    What Makes a Good Peace Settlement?

    One of the joys of serving on the Naval War College faculty is the opportunity to bolt from the ivory tower from time to time and interact with a...

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    Commitment to Allies and Partners Is America’s Greatest Legacy

    There are few obligations that I perform more freely than honoring the lives we lost during the Great War. For me, it’s deeply personal. Both of...

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    Scuttlebutt: Thanksgiving 1943

    The Naval Institute Archive was recently the recipient of a lucky find by Bill Foley of Boston who came upon some USS Hermitage (AP-54) papers...

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    USS Lakatoi – A Short, but Heroic Life

    If there were a contest to find the U.S. Navy ship with the shortest career from commissioning to sinking, USS Lakatoi, with just six days, would...

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    This Day in History: The Trent Affair

    November 8 marks the anniversary of the Trent Affair of 1861. During the opening months of the Civil War, the U.S. Navy stopped the British mail...

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    Damage Control on the USS Houston (CL-81)

    In this selection, future RADM George H. Miller recounts the torpedoing of the USS Houston (CL-81) in October of 1944, off the coast of Formosa,...

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    100 Years Ago In USN LTA

    The following is reprinted with permissions from The Noon Balloon. The late LTAS guru Dr. Dale Topping lamented that in any given book or...

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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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