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Scott Waddle's future will not be determined in a courtroom. According to Pentagon reports, Pacific Fleet commander-in-chief Admiral Thomas Fargo has recommended that Waddle, the beleaguered captain of the ill-fated USS Greeneville, not face a court-martial...
...boosting defense spending 18% this year. But many officers still feel that China has grown too chummy with the U.S. They resent the U.S. surveillance flights along the Chinese coastline--something the U.S. would never tolerate on its borders--and they resent the fact that the U.S. Pacific Fleet in Japan could defeat China's entire navy. "The military likes to have an enemy, and that's how it sees the U.S.," says a former Chinese official who had close contacts with the army. "It will insist that Jiang hang tough...
...Minn.; Copenhagen; and Helsinki. The goal was to slash CO2 emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2010. Portland's strategy involved a six-point program that included synchronizing traffic lights, planting 75,000 acres of trees (which absorb carbon dioxide) and buying low-CO2 vehicles for the city's fleet...
Visibly angered by the Chinese attack on an unarmed civilian airliner, the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, Admiral Felix Stump, told a news conference he had instructed his search mission to be quick on the trigger. Three days after the DC-4 downing, U.S. Skyraiders patrolling near Hainan shot out of the sky two LA-7s that showed signs of hostile behavior. Radio Beijing announced that two American fighters had made piratical attacks on two Polish merchant ships and one Chinese escort vessel, but failed to mention...
Several senior officers on the submarine testified that they thought Waddle was going through the emergency-ascent routine too quickly but did not want to challenge him with civilians present in the control room. During the inquiry, Rear Admiral Albert Konetzni, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet submarine force, looked over at Waddle in the courtroom and said, "He is like my brother, if not my son. I'd like to go over there and punch him for not taking more time." But Waddle rigorously defended the procedures onboard the Greeneville, denying that he had cut corners on safety...