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...perhaps the most important distinction of the Coast Guard is that it trusts itself. On the morning of 9/11, Allen, then commander of the Atlantic Area, was getting a physical in Portsmouth, Va. By the time he got back to the office, shortly after the second plane had hit the Twin Towers, a captain in New York had already closed his port. Another captain closed waterways around Baltimore and Washington. They didn't need to ask Allen for permission, and he, in turn, didn't need to ask his commandant for permission to position three large cutters in New York...
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...
...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 of a commission reviewing Rumsfeld's recommendation to do away with the facility. Faced with the shuttering of his state's second largest employer, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota Senator John Thune wants...
Minnesota’s Krissy Wendell was honored with the 2005 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award—given to the top player in women’s college hockey—presented in Portsmouth, N.H. on March 26. Wendell became the eighth recipient of the award and the first player from a western school to bring home the trophy. Wendell is second in the nation in points (102), goals (42), and assists...
Minnesota’s Krissy Wendell was honored with the 2005 Patty Kazmaier Memorial Award—given to the top player in women’s college hockey—presented in Portsmouth, N.H. on Saturday night. Wendell became the eighth recipient of the award and the first player from a western school to bring home the trophy. Wendell is second in the nation in points (102), goals (42), and assists...