Navy Area is the number one priority of the Navy and Marine Corps among the different Theater Missile Defense systems.

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Unfortunately, these strong arguments for proceeding with the Navy Area system were not persuasive to the small group of civilian officials led by Under Secretary of Defense E.

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" He declared that "a robust, sea-based, lower-tier theater ballistic missile defense capability, found in the Navy Area Missile Defense Program, is critical to reducing operational risk to the warfighter.

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The U.S. Navy has several ships in the area monitoring the situation.

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Three U.S. Navy ships could reach the affected area within four days, but the Burmese government has not granted permission for the U.S. military to enter Burma.

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Scattered throughout Pensacola, Florida, there are little villages of white FEMA trailers, in the parking lot of an old home supply store, near the Navy base and planted in an open swamp area on the west side of town.

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Two sailors reported that Dorner, a former Navy lieutenant, approached them at the San Diego-area Point Loma Naval Base, and local police allege he attempted to steal a boat.

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Two sailors also reported Dorner, a former Navy lieutenant, approached them at the San Diego-area Point Loma Naval Base, and local police allege he attempted to steal a boat.

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At the time of his killing, the Mexican army, navy, and federal and state police were patrolling the area to beef up security for the Mexican Open professional tennis tournament.

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In 1993 information came out that the Navy had known there were enemy submarines in that particular area of the Pacific but had failed to inform the captain and had not provided an escort.

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The ship carried a Navy mobile security team that is authorized to respond to perceived threats, as do all military-contracted ships in the 5th Fleet's area of command in the waters surrounding the turbulent Middle East and East Africa, the Navy said.

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Clearly, the Farley did not belong to the Navy or to the park, and yet its crew was acting as if it had authority to police the area.

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