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MARINES
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MARINES
7/29/2011 By Sgt. Kuande Hall
Headquarters Marine Corps
Commandant of the Marine Corps Gen. James Amos addresses members of the media at the Short Take Off Verticle Landing Joint Strike Fighter demonstration on Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., July 29, 2011. Amos said he was "absolutely confident" the STOVL JSF probation period will end soon and that the jet was vital to the Marine Corps' mission.
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Official Website of the UNITED STATES NAVY
Tarawa ESG Receives Espionage Awareness Training
Story Number: NNS071124-01
Release Date: 11/24/2007 7:29:00 PM
By Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Carlos Cepeda, USS Tarawa Public Affairs
USS TARAWA, At Sea (NNS) -- Navy Counter Intelligence Service (NCIS) conducted a counterintelligence and espionage lecture on board amphibious assault ship USS Tarawa (LHA 1) Nov. 19.
"NCIS provides counter intelligence and espionage awareness to all Navy and Marine Corps members," said Chris Follis, NCIS special agent float. "The training gives a brief overview of what NCIS does and then goes into case studies explaining what counter intelligence and espionage are."
The reporting requirements are one of the most important parts in the brief, added Follis. They provide service members with information on what to watch out for and who to report it to when visiting a foreign port or at home.
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Official Website of the UNITED STATES NAVY
SECNAV Names New Zumwalt-Class Destroyer USS Michael Monsoor
Story Number: NNS081030-08 Release Date: 10/30/2008 9:49:00 AM
From the Department of Defense
WASHINGTON (NNS) -- Secretary of the Navy, Donald C. Winter announced Oct. 29 at a Navy SEAL Warrior Fund Benefit Gala at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, the name of the newest Zumwalt-class Destroyer will be USS Michael Monsoor.
Designated as DDG 1001, the name honors Petty Officer 2nd Class Michael Monsoor, a Navy SEAL who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his heroic actions in Ramadi, Iraq, Sept. 29, 2006.
Winter discussed the qualities, values and dedication to duty that Navy SEALs exemplify, including the extraordinary acts of Michael Monsoor.
"Tonight I would like to single out one of those heroes from the community of Navy SEALs," Winter said.
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NVR
Naval Vessel Register
SAIPAN (LHA 2)
AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT SHIP (GENERAL PURPOSE)
Class: LHA 1
Status: The Navy awarded a contract for the dismantling of this ship
Award Date: 11/15/1969
Keel Date: 07/21/1972
Launch Date: 07/18/1974
Commission Date: 10/15/1977
Decommission Date: 04/25/2007
Stricken Date: 04/25/2007
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The Seattle Times
Sunday, November 17, 1996
Boeing Jet Makes The Cut -- Pentagon Picks Firm And Lockheed Martin To Create Prototypes Of 21St-Century Fighter
By Polly Lane, Stanley Holmes
Seattle Times Business Reporters: Seattle Times News Services
The Pentagon yesterday chose Boeing as a finalist in the competition to develop the major jet fighter of the 21st century, positioning the Seattle-based company to potentially become the world's dominant builder of military as well as civilian jets.
Boeing and Lockheed Martin each won contracts to build prototypes of the new fighter, called the Joint Strike Fighter, or JSF, versions of which will serve three branches of the U.S. armed forces and the British Royal Navy.
RED STORM RISING [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Tom Clancy
PRINTING HISTORY
G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover edition / August 1986
Berkley mass-market edition / August 1987
Page 284
SCOTLAND
"The kid's doing all right," the major said. He was in an awkward position - an American officer in a NATO communications post run by Brit intelligence types who were evenly split on Edward's reliability.
"I'd say he's doing bloody marvelously," nodded the senior Brit. He'd lost an eye, quite some time ago by the look of it, but was still one tough-looking bastard, the major thought. "Notice how he discriminates between what his observations and opinions are."
"Weather forecaster," snorted another. "We must get some professionals in there. How quickly can we whistle some up?"
"Perhaps by tomorrow. The Navy wants to put them in by submarine, though, and I agree. A bit dicey for a parachute infiltration, you know. Iceland's covered with rocks, the place is made to break ankles and legs. Then there's the Soviet fighters. No hurry on putting troops there, is it? We've got to reduce their air assets first and generally make life as difficult for them as we can."
"That starts tonight," the major said. "Nordic Hammer Phase Two will hit around the local sunset time."
"Hope it works better than Phase One did, old boy."
STORNOWAY, SCOTLAND
"So how are things going up here?" Toland asked his Royal Air Force counterpart. Right before boarding the flight he'd sent the telegram to Marty: I'M ALL RIGHT. ON THE BEACH FOR A WHILE. LOVE. He hoped that would reassure her. Probably the news of the carrier battle was already in the papers.
"Could be better. We've lost eight Tornados trying to assist the Norwegians. We're about down to a bare minimum for local defense, and Ivan's begun to attack our northern radar installations. Sorry about what happened to your aircraft carrier, but I must say we're very happy indeed to have you chaps with us for a bit."
Nimitz's interceptors and radar birds were split among three RAF bases. The maintenance crews were still arriving by transport aircraft, and some hitch had developed with the missiles, but the F-14s each carried a full load for one engagement, and they could use RAF Sparrows to reload. Operating off a land base, the fighter could carry a larger load of fuel and ordnance, packing a heavier punch than off a ship. The fighter crews were in a foul humor. Having used their aircraft and precious missiles to kill drones, they had returned to the formation to see the fearful results of the mistake. The total loss of life was still uncertain, but scarcely two hundred men had escaped from Saipan, and only a thousand from Foch. In terms of casualties this had been the bloodiest defeat in the history of the United States Navy, with thousands of men gone and not a single kill to offset the losses. Only the French had scored against the Backfires, succeeding with twenty-year-old Crusaders where the vaunted Tomcats had failed.
Toland sat in on their first briefing, conducted by the RAF. The fighter pilots were absolutely silent. He had trouble gauging their mood. No jokes. No whispered remarks. No smiles. They knew that the error had not been theirs, that it was not their fault at all, but that didn't seem to matter. They were shaken by what had happened to their ship.
As was he. Toland's mind kept coming back to the image of the four-inch-thick flight deck steel bent into the sky like cellophane, a blackened cavern below it where the hangar deck used to be. The rows of bags - crewmen who had died aboard the world's most powerful warship ...
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1888
August 7 – The body of Martha Tabram is found, a possible murder victim of Jack the Ripper.
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BBC
Last Updated: Friday, 26 November, 2004, 05:29 GMT
Why are we obsessed with Jack the Ripper?
By Finlo Rohrer
BBC News
A shadowy figure clad in a top hat and cape, carrying a shiny leather bag through the London fog, the popular image of Jack the Ripper continues to be iconic 116 years after he terrorised the East End.
This week, press reports of tests on a watch led to the finger again being pointed at James Maybrick, a 19th Century Liverpool cotton merchant.
It is a criminal case where a year rarely goes by without a new development or conspiracy theory, but those investigating admit it will almost certainly never be solved.
So why do legions of Jack the Ripper enthusiasts, known as Ripperologists, remain obsessed by the identity of the killer who mutilated prostitutes in the area around Whitechapel?
WHITECHAPEL MURDERS
3 April 1888 - Emma Elizabeth Smith
7 August 1888 - Martha Tabram
31 August 1888 - Mary Ann Nichols*
8 September 1888 - Annie Chapman*
30 September 1888 - Elizabeth Stride*
30 September 1888 - Catherine Eddowes*
9 November 1888 - Mary Jane Kelly*
20 December 1888 - Rose Mylett
17 July 1889 - Alice McKenzie
10 September 1889 - Unknown woman
13 February 1891 - Frances Coles
* Usually identified as the Ripper murders
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Martha Tabram
Martha Tabram (10 May 1849 – 7 August 1888) was a London prostitute, who may be a possible early victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer known as "Jack the Ripper".
The police did not connect the murder with Smith's, but they did connect it with the later five murders. Later students of the Ripper murders have largely excluded Tabram from the list of Ripper victims, chiefly because her throat was not cut in the manner of later victims, nor was she eviscerated. This view was advanced by Sir Melville Macnaghten, Assistant Chief Constable of the Metropolitan Police Service Criminal Investigation Department, who implied that Tabram was murdered by an unidentified soldier or soldiers in an 1894 memorandum on the murders. Dr Killeen, who performed the post mortem on Tabram, strengthened this belief with his opinion that two weapons were used—one of Tabram's wounds, which penetrated the chest bone, was inflicted with a weapon longer and stouter than the others, a dagger or possibly a bayonet, while the others were from a slimmer knife.
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United States Marine Corps
History Division
Commandants of the U.S. Marine Corps
35. James F. Amos
State of Birth: ID
Dates: B. 12 Nov 1946
Period Served: 22 Oct 2010 - present
Initial Rank as CMC: General
Final Rank: General
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United States Marine Corps
History Division
GENERAL
JAMES F. AMOS, USMC
35th Commandant
22 October 2010 - Present
General James F. Amos, USMC, is the 35th and current Commandant of the Marine Corps.
RED STORM RISING [ RACKETEER INFLUENCED AND CORRUPT ORGANIZATIONS US Title 18 ]
Tom Clancy
PRINTING HISTORY
G.P. Putnam's Sons hardcover edition / August 1986
Berkley mass-market edition / August 1987
Page 284
SCOTLAND
"The kid's doing all right," the major said. He was in an awkward position - an American officer in a NATO communications post run by Brit intelligence types who were evenly split on Edward's reliability.
"I'd say he's doing bloody marvelously," nodded the senior Brit. He'd lost an eye, quite some time ago by the look of it, but was still one tough-looking bastard, the major thought. "Notice how he discriminates between what his observations and opinions are."
"Weather forecaster," snorted another. "We must get some professionals in there. How quickly can we whistle some up?"
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The Untouchables
:22:47
- What do you want?
- I'd like to talk to you.
:22:53
Come in.
:22:58
I need a small group of men,
handpicked, starting with you.
:23:01
Ness! I am just a poor beat cop.
:23:06
- Now, how can I help you?
- Just work with me.
:23:11
- But why should I, though?
- Because you're a good cop.
:23:16
- How do you know that?
- You told me.
:23:19
If I'm such a good cop...
:23:23
How come I'm walkin' the beat,
then, at my age?
:23:26
Do you want to tell me?
:23:28
Well, maybe I'm that
Whore with a Heart of Gold.
:23:31
Or The One Good Cop in the Bad Town?
