Topic - Navy

• Inside Politics

  A Utah man police say threatened to assassinate Gov. Gary R. Herbert is facing multiple felony charges.

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  Navy names ship after Gabrielle Giffords

  The Navy on Friday announced it would name a combat ship after former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who resigned from Congress last month to recover from a grievous gunshot wound she suffered in January 2011.

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  Rick Sowell still living the dream of being Navy's coach

  Just days after Rick Sowell accepted the Navy lacrosse coaching vacancy, he ventured over to the program's hall of fame in the Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium with assistant coach Ryan Wellner and longtime Navy assistant Mark Goers.

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  HUNTER: Sinking Navy in sea of red ink

  Rep. Duncan D. Hunter, California Republican, is a member of the House Armed Services Committee and the first Marine combat veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars elected to Congress.

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  Pentagon to move women closer to front lines

  The Pentagon announced Thursday that it is keeping its longtime ban on women serving as infantry, armor and special operations warriors in ground combat units, but it will open 14,000 support positions for them in units closer to the front lines.

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  Sources: Pentagon rules shifting on women in combat

  Pentagon rules are catching up a bit with reality after a decade when women in the U.S. military have served, fought and died on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.

• Publisher John Sargent Sr. dies in NYC at age 87

  John Turner Sargent Sr., a publisher, editor and socialite who as CEO of Doubleday worked with authors from Dwight Eisenhower to Stephen King and helped recruit his friend Jacqueline Kennedy as an editor, died Sunday at age 87.

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  Fleets fade away with Pentagon budget cuts

  America's aging tactical Air Force — the jets that protect ground troops and strike hard-to-reach targets — is shrinking just as the Pentagon is cutting even more planes to achieve nearly a half-trillion dollars in spending cuts.

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  LYONS: Year of the dragon

  On Jan. 5, President Obama unveiled a new defense strategy in general terms, de-emphasizing nation-building land wars such as those in Iraq and Afghanistan in favor of a strategic shift that focuses on East Asia and the Western Pacific. This budget-driven strategy has shortcomings and will result in increased risk for our nation.

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  GORDON: Obama's deadly new PR firm

  The dramatic rescue of an American aid worker and her Danish colleague in Somalia by Navy commandos was a terrific encore to the killing of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan nine months ago. However, all the White House-driven publicity for both events has helped turn the once-secret SEAL Team 6 into a household term, with likely negative consequences.

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  FEULNER: Mauling the military

  "Freedom isn't free." We usually hear this on occasions such as Memorial Day and Veterans Day. It's meant to remind us of the brave American troops who put their lives on the line daily to protect our liberty and preserve our security.

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  Ed DeChellis grasping for answers to Navy's 14-game slide

  Navy forward Worth Smith barely practiced entering Saturday's game against Bucknell, consigned to the sideline while wearing a walking boot to deal with a stress reaction in his right foot.

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  BOOK REVIEW: 'Hedy's Folly'

  As you pick up a copy of "Hedy's Folly," with its eye-popping jacket of an incandescent Hedy Lamarr seductively wrapped around a gilded torpedo, you begin to wonder just what exactly you are getting into. The subtitle, "The Life and Breakthrough Inventions of the Most Beautiful Woman in the World," gives you a clue.

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  Navy SEAL raid in Somalia shows campaign ahead

  The Navy SEAL operation that freed two Western hostages in Somalia is representative of the Obama administration's pledge to build a smaller, more agile military force that can carry out surgical counterterrorist strikes to cripple an enemy.

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  Panetta says 2013 defense budget to cut land forces

  Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta on Thursday presented the first act in shrinking the war-on-terrorism military over the next five years, saying his 2013 budget will cut land forces by 92,000, ask Congress to close bases and slow production of the F-35 stealth fighter.

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