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From Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/5th Fleet Public Affairs



USS BOXER, At Sea (NNS) -- U.S. Navy ships and aircraft are searching for a Sailor from USS Boxer (LHD 4) who went missing while the ship was conducting maritime security operations in the Gulf of Aden today.



The Sailor did not report to watch and after a search of the ship, man overboard was called away.



Helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft from Boxer, fixed-wing aircraft from USS…

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The Navy on Wednesday identified the two sailors killed Monday in a rollover accident at Camp Pendleton: Petty Officer Third Class Daniel M. Shirar and Constructionman Mychael A. Flint.



Shirar, 27, of Baytown, Texas, and Flint, 21, of Fort Ann, N.Y., died when the water truck they were riding in overturned during an exercise at the Marine Corps base north of Oceanside.



Flint was an equipment operator assigned to the Amphibious Construction Battalion One homeported in… Continue

Eight warships are headed to Japan to render disaster relief in the wake of a catastrophic magnitude 8.9 earthquake that left hundreds dead Friday. The quake unleashed a tsunami that is tearing across the Pacific. It unmoored two subs and is forcing other ships to get underway or ease their lines as the surge waters arrive, according to updates posted on official Navy Facebook pages across the region…

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WOODBURY, Tenn. - A military mom said she would do anything to answer her son's phone call from overseas, no matter what the cost.



Some seven months ago, Lance Corporal Mark Rhyne left the little town of Woodbury, for the remote deserts of Afghanistan.



"I told my son the day he deployed as he was about to get on that bus, 'I will stand in your steed while you are gone, I will stand,'" his mother Teresa Danford said.



On Monday, while working inside the Crane…

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