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...snatch-and-grab" mission--tossing their target into a helicopter and getting out fast--or a "blow-and-go," in which case the captive would be killed. Sources tell TIME that the Pentagon and State Department had made plans last week to fly FBI agents to a Navy warship in the region, ready to arrest bin Laden or any other al-Qaeda operatives caught alive. The FBI blocked the plan, claiming it didn't have agents to spare for arrests that might never happen...
...what Navy Captain Ronald H. Henderson ’76 would say is the defining moment of his professional life is what he is doing right now—commanding the USS Juneau, an amphibious warship with a crew...
...what Navy Captain Ronald H. Henderson ’76 would say is the defining moment of his professional life is what he is doing right now—commanding the USS Juneau, an amphibious warship with a crew...
...Commanding Officer, I have the opportunity to improve their lives and enhance their professionalism. I also carry a solemn responsibility for their lives and their safety,” Henderson writes. “These are the demands placed in the hands of the Captain of a warship at sea; ultimate and inescapable responsibility for the mission, safety, health and lives of the crew he commands...
...women following the Tailhook convention of Navy aviators in 1991 where dozens of women were sexually assaulted by drunken pilots. Since then, the Navy has pushed hard to put women aboard nearly all of its vessels except for submarines. Last year, the first female skipper took a U.S. Navy warship on a real-world mission to the Persian Gulf. But suggestions that precious Navy funds are going toward more frequent doctors' visits by female sailors will raise anew questions about the wisdom of putting women aboard ships, some Navy officers fear...