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...shipping industry may still be debating whether to provide weapons to the crews of merchant ships plying the pirate-infested waters of the Indian Ocean, but the U.S. military has no such dilemma about how to protect its cargo. As it prepares to ship a lot of firepower halfway across the world, it is taking steps to make sure a specially-designated container ship doesn?t fall into the wrong hands...
...Marine Corps is moving 24,000 tons of inventory to the secretive U.S. naval station on the atoll of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, southeast of Somalia. A large container ship will transport 1,628 TEUs - 20-foot shipping containers - in temperature and humidity controlled conditions as part of the long-established Afloat Prepositioning Force, a strategy for storing the tools of war, known as "prepo." The ship will simply sit at anchor in the atoll's blue lagoon and wait, in case there is a major conflict in the area requiring U.S. involvement. This particular project...
...moment, you think of your life at Harvard as an ocean voyage...
...These guys have been through a hell of a situation, and their boss is still floating in the middle of the ocean," said Mark Zimmer, the public diplomacy officer of the U.S. embassy in Kenya for Somalia. It is not known when the crew will return home, but some officials say they may remain on the Alabama for at least another day as they are debriefed by the FBI and U.S. military officials...
...lyrics could be ignored on their last album—or allowed to fade into the mix as a sort of campy soundtrack-to-a-soundtrack—the Thermals have made them the centerpiece here; something vaguely about reflections of life after metamorphosis and death in the ocean, but honestly who cares? Much of the guitar work seems warmed-over from their last record—and the one before that, and the one before that. While innovation was never the band’s strong suit, some thematic variation would be appreciated.But like every seasoned pop band...