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...CLOSET, YOU'RE OUT OF THE service. For 50 years, that has been the firm rule of the U.S. military. But the day after Veterans Day, following a bitter court battle, Petty Officer Keith Meinhold managed to regain his Navy job at Moffett Field Naval Air Station in Mountain View, California. The 12-year veteran had been discharged in August after announcing he was gay on national TV. When U.S. District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. ordered the Navy to take Meinhold back the first time, the Navy balked. But after Hatter reaffirmed his order, Acting Secretary of the Navy...
Pearl Harbor made history as the target of the 1941 Japanese air attack. But the 91-year-old naval base earned a more dubious distinction last month when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) added the site to its list of the nation's most dangerously polluted places. Among the hazards scattered across 12,264 acres: unlined landfills, pesticide-disposal pits, chromic acid- disposal areas, heavy-metal contamination and waste-oil leakage...
...shells; officials are torn between footing a $6 billion cleanup bill and simply padlocking the place and throwing away the key. In June a midnight blast equal to 4,700 lbs. of TNT rocked the sleepy Washington suburb of White Oak, Maryland, whose residents had long since forgotten the naval chemical-ordnance bunker in their midst. Says Ralph De Gennaro, senior specialist with Friends of the Earth: "Every day we learn more about the Pentagon's environmental pollution. The public still has only a piece of the puzzle...
Paint-stripping and engine-maintenance operations present a more formidable challenge. At the Naval Air Engineering Center in Lakehurst, New Jersey, a plume of water contaminated by TCE solvent is leaking into the aquifer that supplies water to the southern part of the state. Investigations at the Norfolk Naval Base complex in Virginia are only partly completed, but it already appears that the Navy's biggest single installation may turn out to be its biggest contamination problem...
Despite being seeded only sixth in the eight team championship, to be held this weekend at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md., Freed and the Crimson are confident they can pull out a victory...