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As the hunt for the missing Malaysian Air jumbo jet gained momentum Sunday in the South China Sea and Malaysian intelligence agencies were investigating potential terrorism, hopes were all but gone for the 239 passengers and crew.

Marine Capt. Reid Nannen has been identified by numerous non-military websites as the pilot killed in a March 1 crash east of Fallon.

A Texas judge will decide whether to let jurors hear the tape of a man accused of killing famed Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle admit to the shooting.

U.S. sailors from the USS Bataan, responding Saturday to a distress call from a Turkish-flagged container vessel that had run aground in the Aegean Sea and was listing, recovered two mariners, the Navy said in a news release.

The incident took place when the pressure of the hydraulic tank of the Arihant class submarine was being tested and the tank's lid fell on the workers of L & T at Building-5 of the shipbuilding centre, Defence Research Development Organization chief Avinash Chander told PTI .

Vietnamese air force planes on Saturday spotted two large oil slicks close to where a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 went missing earlier in the day, the first sign that the aircraft carrying 239 people had crashed.

Though it's not often so called, Route 6, the highway that arches up from Route 1 at Adelup over Nimitz Hill until it intersects again with Marine Corps Drive at Guam Veterans Cemetery, has a name.

The U.S. Navy had secret orders this week to be "prepared to act" to stop a cargo ship carrying Iranian arms destined for Gaza, CNN has learned.

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Chief Engineman Patricia Cooper, a student in the Riverine Combat Skills course, patrols the training grounds during a field training exercise in Camp Lejeune, N.C. The Navy announced Friday that 13 women have been identified to join its Coastal Riverine Force, a group of sailors trained to fight in shallow water and rivers from small boats.

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Researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have coined the term 'Iraq-Afghanistan war lung injury' to describe respiratory symptoms developed by some veterans - and they have duplicated the problem in mice, using dust from Camp Victory in Baghdad.

An Indian naval officer was killed and "some" dock workers were injured on Friday in a gas leak aboard a yet-to-be commissioned naval ship, the defence ministry said.

Speaker after speaker spoke critically of the U.S. Navy's plan to train and test weapons along the North Coast, and expressed concerns over potential environmental impacts during a public meeting at the Red Lion Hotel in Eureka on Thursday.

Enter Google, which, by leasing the space through its subsidiary, will put Hangar One to new use with a commitment to protect that building, rehabilitate Hangars 2 and 3, and create a public use/educational facility.

The U.S. Navy plans to add 22 Boeing electronic attack jets to a list of "unfunded" priorities requested by Congress, but the document must still be vetted by senior Pentagon officials, who have underscored their commitment to Lockheed Martin Corp's next-generation F-35 fighter jet, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The Philippines is to upgrade a navy base facing disputed South China Sea waters to serve the extra ships being acquired to protect its territory, the military said Thursday.

The US Navy has confirmed that a guided missile destroyer, the USS Truxton, is heading to the Black Sea, for what the US military said is a "routine" deployment, decided long before the crisis in Ukraine, which has divided world powers.

President Barack Obama says a referendum for Ukraine's Crimea region to separate and become part of Russia would violate international law.

The U.S. guided-missile destroyer Truxtun is bound for the Black Sea for military exercises with Bulgarian and Romanian naval forces.