Word: fleetly
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America's posties will soon be getting new wheels. The U.S. Postal Service disclosed last week that it will buy a fleet of modernistic aluminum vans from Bethpage, N.Y.-based Grumman to replace the familiar red-white-and-blue AM General Jeeps and trucks that deliver mail on U.S. streets. The $1.1 billion contract, the largest vehicle purchase in Postal Service history, calls for 99,150 new vans to hit the road between...
Pentagon sources said the U.S. 6th Fleet remained "at a high state of readiness," steaming in the central Mediterranean north of the Libyan coast. But the sources added that the fleet, led by two aircraft carriers, had not received any orders to prepare for combat...
When the Sixth Fleet struck at Libyan air-defense batteries and patrol boats a fortnight ago without suffering a single casualty, America's top military brass celebrated more than just a victory over Muammar Gaddafi. The Pentagon offered the Navy's demonstration of high-tech firepower as a telling retort to an increasingly restive band of congressional critics who accuse the military of building "gold-plated" weapons that will turn out to be duds in combat. Like Libya's radar transmitters, the Pentagon's detractors were silenced, but only for the moment...
Navy brass point out that the $75 billion array of carrier groups looked pretty intimidating to Gaddafi, who dared not send his 535-plane air force aloft to challenge the Sixth Fleet. But questions about both the cost and effectiveness of the operation are sure to be part of the continuing debate over how to allocate military resources and structure the Pentagon bureaucracy for the defense the U.S. will need in the decade to come...
...Sixth Fleet now has the carrier America under way in the northern Mediterranean off the coast of Italy. The carrier Coral Sea, which had been expecting to sail for home shortly, was in port yesterday in Malaga, Spain, but sources said it might get under way as early as today...