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SPARED. ELLSWORTH AIR FORCE BASE in South Dakota; the NAVAL SUBMARINE BASE NEW LONDON in Groton, Conn.; and Maine's PORTSMOUTH NAVAL SHIPYARD; by the independent base-closing commission, which voted to keep them open in a rejection of the Pentagon's cost-saving plans; in Arlington, Va. At the same time, the panel voted to close the historic but aging Walter Reed Army Medical Center, which has treated Presidents, foreign leaders and military men and women for a century. The recommendations must still be approved by President Bush and Congress...
...pacific standard time (PST), they found vulnerabilities at the U.S. Army Information Systems Engineering Command at Fort Huachuca, Arizona. At 1:19 am PST, they found the same hole in computers at the military's Defense Information Systems Agency in Arlington, Virginia. At 3:25 am, they hit the Naval Ocean Systems Center, a defense department installation in San Diego, California. At 4:46 am PST, they struck the United States Army Space and Strategic Defense installation in Huntsville, Alabama. As with prior attacks, the targeted networks were unclassified systems; the military's classified networks are not connected directly...
...closing a military base is about the worst thing you can do to a community. Ever since Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld listed the 180 or so installations he wants shut down next, local anger and fear have simmered. Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman denounced the proposed mothballing of the naval submarine base at Groton as "cruel and unusual punishment," and state officials have churned out stacks of reports disputing the $1.6 billion the Pentagon claims it will save from the move. At Maine's Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, thousands of workers shouting "Take us off the list!" have demonstrated before visiting members...
CHARLIE BROWN, U.S. Navy spokesman, after terrorists fired a rocket at a U.S. naval vessel in the Red Sea port of Aqaba, missing the ship but killing a Jordanian soldier...
...Later, when Kennedy rejoined his crewmates on Olasana, he carved a message into a green coconut husk: nauro isl native knows posit he can pilot 11 alive need small boat kennedy. The skipper asked the two islanders to take the note to a naval base at Rendova Harbor, 60 km away. The pair sought out another scout, with whom they took the message to Australian Coastwatcher Reg Evans. Based on Kolombangara, Evans had been on watch the night PT 109 went up in flames. The U.S. authorities had all but given up hope of finding the missing...