Topic: Navy

The Navy Will Give You $119 a Day After a Fighter Jet Destroys Your Home

Reuters

Devin Smith, who lived in the Virginia Beach apartment complex which was totaled by a fighter jet crash, told Reddit that she's only getting $89 per day for lodging.

By Adam Martin

Jan 3, 2012

Iran Threatens U.S. Aircraft Carrier After it Leaves

Iran's vague threat against a U.S. aircraft carrier seems pretty empty, coming as it does after the ship already left the Persian Gulf, but it's the most aggressive language yet from the increasingly isolated republic.

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By Adam Clark Estes

Dec 14, 2011

China's First Aircraft Carrier as Seen From Space

A commercial satellite company has released this photo of the Varyag, the thousand-foot-long, 55,000-ton beast of a boat that the Chinese military is cruising around the Yellow Sea in a second round of sea tests this month. 

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By Elspeth Reeve

Oct 31, 2011

The Time Cain's Spokesman Was Accusing Sexual Harassment

"I've been abused worse than the detainees have been abused," J.D. Gordon, then the Navy's spokesman at Guantanamo Bay told The Washington Post in 2009, lamenting the lack of a media uproar over his accusations that a Miami Herald reporter was sexually harassing him. 

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By Adam Martin

Aug 10, 2011

China's First Aircraft Carrier Heads Out to Sea

The Chinese navy's newest flag ship has started its first round of sea trials

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By Elspeth Reeve

May 13, 2011

Navy SEALs Have Turned into Celebrities, Sex Symbols

Virginia Beach, home to the SEALs, has become a stalking ground for admirers

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By Adam Martin

May 11, 2011

Navy Grapples with Gay Marriage Ceremony Policy

An order allowing chaplains to perform same-sex unions was issued then rescinded

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By Heather Horn

Apr 11, 2011

British Seaman Accused of Murder, Also Raps as 'Reggie Moondogg'

Is there a connection? At least one politician thinks so

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