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Bin Laden death: Security fears for US Navy Seal team

The US is to tighten security around the elite military unit that killed Osama Bin Laden, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has said.

US Navy Authorizes Chaplains to Perform Same-Sex ‘Marriages’ in Naval Chapels

Anticipating the elimination of the military ban on homosexuality, the Office of the Chief of Navy Chaplains has decided that same-sex couples in the Navy will be able to get married in Navy chapels, and that Navy chaplains will be allowed to perform the ceremonies -- if homosexual marriage is legal in the state where the unions are to be performed.

U.S. Warship Tracking Yacht Hijacked by Somali Pirates

KEVIN DOLAK, LUIS MARTINEZ and JEREMY HUBBARD ABC News 02/20/2011
U.S. Warship Tracking Yacht Hijacked by Somali Pirates

The U.S. Navy is actively tracking the yacht with four Americans on board that was hijacked by pirates and was reported to be headed for the Somali coast.

US Navy spent $450,000 of taxpayer money on Super Bowl flyover... when the stadium roof was shut

The U.S. Navy has been criticised for spending almost half a million dollars of taxpayers' money on a flyover at the Super Bowl - while the stadium roof was closed.

New videos emerge by fired US Navy carrier commander

STEVE SZKOTAK The Washington Post 01/05/2011
New videos emerge by fired US Navy carrier commander

More bawdy shipboard videos made by a Navy officer surfaced Wednesday, a day after he was fired from command of his aircraft carrier.

Navy Captain Owen Honors to be 'relieved of command' over sexually-explicit video [VIDEO]

The Navy captain accused of making raunchy videos -- in an apparent effort to entertain his sailors -- will lose his post, defense officials said Tuesday.

US Navy opens investigation into raunchy videos

The Navy has opened an investigation into how a series of raunchy videos, full of sexual innuendo and anti-gay remarks, were produced and shown to the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise while on deployment supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

US Navy's sci-fi railgun breaks record for most powerful gun on the planet (VIDEO)

Say hello to the Navy's little friend. 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.

Controversy flares over US warship named for Murtha

Philip Ewing Navy Times 04/27/2010
U.S. Navy Successfully Uses Laser to Shoot Down Drones [VIDEO]

The U.S. Navy has used a a laser weapon to shoot down four unmanned aerial vehicles in a test that rings up memories of Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" missile defense shield in the 1980s.

Controversy flares over US warship named for Murtha

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi praised the Navy’s decision to name an amphibious warship after Rep. John Murtha, but the formal announcement Friday added fuel to an already smoldering backlash online.


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