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Marine commended for rescuing man from burning home
Yuma Marine Cpl. Vincent P. Saldaña was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal on Wednesday for rescuing a man from a burning home in Au ...
Tuition program now offering loans only
As a safeguard against the buckling U.S. economy, the Navy-Marine Corps Relief Society recently changed its overseas Spouse Tuition Assistance Program ...
Iraqis taking a larger role in securing warrants
BAGHDAD — A never-ending stream of people flows from one unadorned room to the other in the investigators’ wing of the old Ministry of Defense compoun ...

Navy News
Navy to commission aircraft carrier
The Navy's newest nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George H. W. Bush will be commissioned Jan. 10, 2009, during a ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk, V ...
Navy's Blue Angels announce 2009 schedule
The Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, The Blue Angels, has announced its show schedule for the 2009 season.
Following winter training, the team b ...
Navy Signs Third Virginia-Class Construction Contract: Meets Cost-Reduction Goal
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy signed a five-year, $14 billion Multi-Year Procurement (MYP) contract for eight Virginia-class submarines Dec. 22.
The co ...

Navy photograph by Clifford L.H. Davis
A NATO E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System ai ... Full story

Defense Department News
DOD contracts
MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY CONTRACT AWARD
Boeing’s Integrated Defense Systems, Huntsville, Alabama, is being awarded $397,900,000 (not-to-exceed ceilin ...
Armed Forces Inaugural Committee moves into high gear
Exactly three weeks before Inauguration Day, the buzz of activity at the Armed Forces Inaugural Committee here is a notable exception to the tradition ...

Community News
Autobee-Bigalk earns NMRS Meritorious Award
Brenda Autobee-Bigalk was presented the Navy Marine Corps Relief Society Civilian Meritorious Award by Mike Hire, NMRS regional director at WACOM’s No ...
Rocketeer News Briefs 12/18/2008
Microsoft policy signed
The Microsoft Home Use Program policy has been in the works for sometime now and it has finally been signed and made available ...
Modern make-over for recruitment billboards
Two newly redesigned billboards were placed on state highways 14 and 395 recently to promote the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division’s recruitme ...