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Clinton says allies can help turn Afghan tide 
Some two dozen countries will send an estimated 7,000 more troops to Afghanistan next year, the chief of NATO said Friday as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told her allied counterparts that an infusion of forces is crucial to turning the tide in the long war.
By Robert Burns , December 04, 2009
Navy Secretary Mabus to appear on 'NCIS' episode
CBS says the real-life Navy secretary, Ray Mabus, will try a different role when he appears on the network's hit drama "NCIS."
By Associated Press , November 10, 2009
Local school district plans Veterans Day celebration
North Dakota’s May-Port CG School District is hosting its seventh-annual Veterans Day Commemoration on Tuesday, an event open to the public that honors local veterans and military service.
November 07, 2009
Ship built with World Trade Center steel comes to NYC
The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, arrived in its namesake city today with a 21-gun salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack.
By Deepti Hajela , November 02, 2009
Military plane, helicopter collide off Southern California coast
UPDATED 10:54 A.M.The U.S. Coast Guard and Navy were searching early this morning for as many as nine people off the Southern California coast following a collision between a Coast Guard plane and a Marine Corps helicopter, officials said.
By Gillian Flaccus , October 30, 2009
Captain in Somali pirate drama considers career change
Capt. Richard Phillips has a book deal, and a movie could be in the works. He's been to the White House to meet the president, to the Queen Mary ocean liner for a vacation and back to his modest 1830s Vermont farmhouse. He gives motivational speeches on the lecture circuit.
By John Curran , October 21, 2009
Marine who built Guantanamo prison: U.S. lost 'moral high ground'
The Marine commander who built the Guantanamo Bay prison said Thursday the U.S. lost the "moral high ground" with its brutal treatment of prisoners, and the facility should be closed as quickly as possible.
By Associated Press , September 25, 2009
Missing Navy pilot killed in '91 found buried in Iraq desert
Navy pilot Michael "Scott" Speicher was called the first casualty of the 1991 Gulf War. But his true status was a mystery, and the Pentagon didn't know whether he was dead or missing - until this weekend.
By Pamela Hess and Pauline Jelinek , August 03, 2009
Pacific state Palau to take Uighur detainees
The tropical Pacific island nation of Palau announced Wednesday it will accept up to 17 Chinese Muslims who have languished in legal limbo at Guantanamo Bay despite a Pentagon determination that they are not "enemy combatants."
By Ray Lilley , June 10, 2009
Lawyer: USS Cole families each to get $200,000
John Clodfelter won't see a dime of the $13.4 million from Sudan that a federal judge granted to relatives of 17 sailors killed in the terrorist attack on the USS Cole, including Clodfelter's son.
But the Mechanicsville, Va., man is still thankful for a resolution to the lawsuit he and other family members of the attack's victims filed six years ago against the troubled African nation.
By Larry O'Dell , April 22, 2009
Somali pirate suspect arrives in NYC
A Somali teenager arrived to face what are believed to be the first piracy charges in the United States in more than a century, smiling but saying nothing as he was led into a federal building under heavy guard.
By Virginia Byrne , April 21, 2009
U.S. captain freed by Navy snipers arrives in Kenya
The American sea captain held hostage for five days by Somali pirates reached land today, with the U.S. destroyer that rescued him docking to the strains of "Sweet Home Alabama" hours after his crew reunited with their families back home.
By Elizabeth A. Kennedy , April 16, 2009
U.S. crew who thwarted pirates return to U.S
A rainy morning outside the nation's capital couldn't dampen the spirits of the crew of the Maersk Alabama, who returned to the U.S. a week after their ordeal off the coast of Somalia.
By Ann Sanner , April 16, 2009
U.S. food aid ship escapes Somali pirate attack
Somali pirates fired grenades and automatic weapons at an American freighter loaded with food aid but the ship managed to escape the attack and was heading today to Kenya under U.S. Navy escort, officials said. Brigands seized four vessels and over 75 hostages off the Horn of Africa since Sunday's dramatic rescue of an American freighter captain.
By Elizabeth A. Kennedy , April 15, 2009
Obama pledges to fight piracy
Pirates vow revenge against 'No. 1 enemy' U.S.President Barack Obama promised today to work with other nations "to halt the rise of piracy," while Somali pirates vowed revenge for the deaths of three colleagues shot by snipers during the daring high-seas rescue of an American sea captain.
By Associated Press , April 13, 2009
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