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Vacuum Cleaner Caused $440 Million In Damage To Nuclear Navy Submarine

by National Confidential | 08 June 2012 | 5:37 pm EST

Topics Accident, Navy, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, USS Miami

A vacuum cleaner is to blame for $440 million worth of damage caused to the Navy submarine USS Miami.

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2 Die In Navy Jet Crash

by National Confidential | 06 April 2011 | 9:53 pm EST

Topics Jet, Lemoore, Military, Navy

Two crew members died when a Navy jet crashed in Lemoore, California.

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Owen Honors Fired By Navy For Lewd Videos

by National Confidential | 04 January 2011 | 3:08 pm EST

Topics Military, Navy, News, Owen Honors

NAVY PRESS RELEASE: Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., Commander, United States Fleet Forces Command (USFFC), has permanently relieved Capt. Owen Honors of his duties as commanding officer of USS Enterprise (CVN 65) for demonstrating poor judgment while serving as executive officer of that ship. “The responsibility of the commanding officer for his or her command [...]

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Navy Captain Owen Honors To Be Temporarily Relieved Of Command Over Lewd Videos

by National Confidential | 03 January 2011 | 8:57 pm EST

Topics Military, Navy, News, Owen Honors

NBC and ABC News are reporting Monday night that Navy Capt. Owen Honors will be temporarily relieved of command of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise. Videos just coming to light show the crew of the Navy aircraft carrier got an eyeful on shipboard TV: Gay slurs, suggestive shower scenes and mimicked masturbation in clips made [...]

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Navy Railgun Breaks Records

by National Confidential | 12 December 2010 | 10:56 pm EST

Topics Gun, Military, Navy, Science

Navy scientists set a world record Friday during a test of an electromagnetic railgun, a tractor-trailer sized weapon that sends a 20-pound projectile rocketing through the air at seven times the speed of sound. The futuristic gun was tested twice at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Va., and the first shot generated 33 [...]

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Lakehurst Naval Air Facility Open After Lockdown

by National Confidential | 21 June 2010 | 11:50 am EST

Topics Lakehurst Naval Air Facility, Military, Navy, News

“Officials have lifted a lockdown at a navy base in Lakehurst, N.J. Senior Airman David Carbajal, a spokesman, said there were several ‘incidents’ Monday but he was not able to provide more information.” [Link]

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Navy Bans Smoking On Submarines

by National Confidential | 20 June 2010 | 9:03 pm EST

Topics Military, Navy, News, Smoking

Navy Submarine picture “The Navy is cognizant that military service is stressful, especially in long and lonely deployments under the sea. Everybody is aware that smoking is a legal, if harmful, stress reliever. So the Navy banned smoking aboard submarines not with the stated purpose of curing the smokers, but of protecting nonsmoking submarine crew [...]

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