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Then, after lobbying by Harvard and U.S. Rep. James P. Moran (D-Va.), the Navy decided to begin the study. That study recommended the Naval Air Systems Command and Naval Sea Systems Command be moved out of the 12-story Harvard owned buildings just across the river from Washington...
...gold class rings they earned when they graduated from one of America's military academies. For generations the ring signified that the wearer was a cut above. No longer: the ring knockers are losing their grip on the armed forces. When Admiral Jeremy Boorda becomes chief of naval operations this month, five of the six Joint Chiefs of Staff will be nonacademy men who have come up through the enlisted ranks or from officer- training programs...
Such meager representation among the topmost brass is just one sign of the steady decline of influence among America's military academies. They have come under siege by critics who believe they cost too much and should be radically changed. The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, which is struggling to recover from a major cheating scandal, will host a discussion this month aptly titled "Service Academies: Leadership Crucibles or Magnificent Anachronisms?" All the academies are suffering from declining enrollment and struggling to develop a curriculum suitable to the post-cold war era. By doing so, however, they risk losing...
Many buyers look to current and former military and KGB officers, trapped in a system that can no longer afford to pay or house them adequately. At least one admiral has intentionally scuttled submarines in order to sell them for scrap. Ranking officers of the Russian fleet at Liepaja naval base in Latvia temporarily immobilized ships last year, when they sold the base's stores of fuel to international traders...
More than a year after the U.S. Naval Academy learned of widespread cheating on a December 1992 exam, a Navy panel recommended expelling 29 midshipmen and disciplining 42 others. The final decision will be up to the Secretary of the Navy...