Word: oceana
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ship's superstructure. Fortunately, the errant missile was not armed with its customary exploding warhead and missed the ship's cargo of 26,000 bbl. of oil. The 9-ft. projectile was apparently launched during training maneuvers by an F-14 fighter from the Naval Air Station at Oceana, Va. While the Navy insists it had announced over marine radio that it would be conducting exercises in the area, a spokesman for Sun, the ship's owner, said the captain heard no warning...
...indeed top gun of a sort. John Lehman, 43, is not only a Naval Reserve commander who just completed one of his two regulation training weeks a year, he is also Secretary of the Navy. But as the Reserve bomber-navigator on an A- 6 attack plane at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va., Lehman took the right-hand, nonpilot seat on training missions. He also spent time at "deck-plate level," getting a feel for the concerns of ordinary seamen and petty officers. The Secretary acts on the gripes too. After a training week earlier this year...
...photographs he was able to obtain with his "secret" security clearance. Michael, who helped out at his father's detective agencies before joining the Navy, has been involved in the family spy business at least since 1983, after he had finished boot camp and was assigned to the Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach. When Michael mentioned to his father that he had seen some classified material, say prosecutors, the elder Walker replied that there was money to be made if he could deliver it. Says FBI Spokesman Bill Baker: "We don't see ideological motives...
...profoundly disturbing because it dares to question the ultimate reality of this love. Michael Radford, director of the new film adaptation of 1984, recognizes and emphasizes Orwell's emotional message over the oft-discussed socio-political implications of Big Brother. On the printed page, Orwell's Oceana can be a bit dry and scholarly; on film it is nothing short of terrifying...
...high school. The couple and their two daughters, Tina, 7, by Terry's previous marriage, and Morgan, 2, moved to Virginia Beach, Va., two years ago, when Goodman was assigned to Attack Squadron 85 at Oceana Naval Air Station. Last September the squadron was posted to the Mediterranean aboard the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy...