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45 Muslim doctors planned US terror raids By John Steel, Crime Correspondent Last Updated: 2:25am BST 05/07/2007 A group of 45 Muslim doctors threatened to use car bombs and rocket grenades in terrorist attacks in the United States during discussions on an extremist internet chat site. Police found details of the discussions on a site run by one of a three-strong "cyber-terrorist" gang. They were discovered at the home of Younis Tsouli, 23, Woolwich Crown Court in south-east London heard. One message read: "We are 45 doctors and we are determined to undertake jihad and take the battle inside America....

Commander says JFK should be retired ASAP By JACK DORSEY, The Virginian-Pilot © February 24, 2006 Last updated: 12:04 PM NORFOLK ­- The Florida-based aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy should be retired "as rapidly as possible," said Adm. John B. Nathman, the fleet commander here. That could happen as early as March, with the following three to four months needed to physically place it in retirement, freeing the 2,200 sailors aboard for reassignment, he said. "It is the right thing to do for the men and women on that ship," Nathman said. "It is actually the right thing to do...

ABOARD USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (NNS) -- The aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) pulled into Boston Harbor May 19 for a four-day goodwill visit. The port call marked the carrier’s first in five years and afforded the residents of Boston the opportunity to get a closer look at the national strategic asset. “It’s great to be back,” said Kennedy’s Commanding Officer Capt. Dennis FitzPatrick. “Our namesake says it all: This is Boston’s aircraft carrier.” In addition to ship’s company and Sailors from Carrier Air Wing 17, Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) are taking part...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) The U.S. Congress passed a measure Tuesday effectively requiring the Defense Department to keep the two remaining conventional aircraft carriers -- the USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy -- as candidates for deployment in Japan unless the Japanese government agrees to host a nuclear-powered carrier. The measure is included in an $82 billion supplementary spending bill for fiscal 2005 approved by the Senate on Tuesday and passed by the House of Representatives last week. The extra budget, mainly for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, will be finalized with the signature of President George W. Bush. With...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Navy officials plan to decommission the last two conventionally powered aircraft carriers left in the fleet, but they are leaving the door open to bring one back if needed to assuage Japanese political concerns. Navy Secretary Gordon England told reporters Monday the 38-year-old USS John F. Kennedy will be decommissioned next year but will remain ready to be recalled to active duty if necessary. “We’re going to mothball the Kennedy,” England said, but he added, “if you need the Kennedy to go to Japan we can always make the Kennedy available.” Still, he insisted, “the Kennedy is...

Navy defends decision to retire carrier From CongressDaily Pressed by Senate appropriators, the top Navy officials Wednesday strongly defended their decision to retire the Mayport, Fla.-based aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy and warned that if forced to retain the ship they would have to take money from more important programs. Navy Secretary Gordon England went on to predict that the active carrier force could drop below 11 ships without regard to what decision was made on the Kennedy. "It's not clear to me that it always stay at 11," England told the Senate Defense Appropriations subcommittee. "As capabilities increase,...

ARLINGTON, Va. — The Navy will cut one of its 12 aircraft carriers, jettison more than 13,000 sailors from its active rolls and slow down the purchase of new ships and aircraft, according to the Navy’s portion of the 2006 defense budget proposal. The good news, say service officials, is that with the extra $6.4 billion they’re getting over the $119 billion approved last year, they’ll be able to provide new special pay and bonus money, more housing allowances, stipends for living overseas as well as increases to fleet maintenance and training. The proposal calls for increasing sailors’ base pay...

Navy considers retiring JFK and moving another carrier from Norfolk By DALE EISMAN, The Virginian-Pilot © February 7, 2005 Last updated: 11:34 AM WASHINGTON -- The Navy wants to retire the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy this year, months earlier than had been expected, and is seriously contemplating the transfer of another flattop from Norfolk to the Kennedy's home in Mayport, Fla., according to budget documents released this morning. The Bush administration's 2006 budget proposal would eliminate the Kennedy and provide $10 million for an environmental impact study on the basing of a nuclear-powered carrier in Mayport, a Jacksonville suburb,...

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No one on the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy will be court-martialed or receive non-judicial punishment as the result of a July 22 collision with a dhow in the Persian Gulf, Navy officials announced Wednesday. A statement released by Commander, Naval Air Force Pacific public affairs noted that Kennedy’s commanding officer, Capt. Stephen G. Squires, and the ship’s navigator were detached for cause, which is “considered an adverse administrative action.” Squires was relieved of command Aug. 27 by Vice Adm. David C. Nichols, commander of 5th Fleet in Bahrain, on Aug. 27. The name of the ship’s navigator was not...

The Navy relieved the commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy on Friday, saying it had lost confidence in his ability to command. CAPT Stephen G. Squires, who took command of the warship April 8, will become the 11th commanding officer fired this year (and the 28th in the past 19 months), and the first carrier skipper to be relieved since September 2002. The Navy recently launched a high-level inquest into the raft of CO firings. Squires’ sacking followed a review of an investigation examining the July 22 collision between the carrier and a civilian boat in...

USS John F. Kennedy Commanding Officer Relieved Story Number: NNS040826-06 Release Date: 8/26/2004 3:21:00 PM From Coalition Forces Maritime Component Commander/Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/Commander, U.S. 5th Fleet Public AffairsMANAMA, Bahrain (NNS) -- Commander, U.S. 5th Fleet has directed that the commanding officer of USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) be relieved Aug. 27, as a result of a collision that occurred between a dhow and Kennedy during the night of July 22. Capt. John W. Miller, former commanding officer of USS Constellation (CV 64), will replace Capt. Stephen G. Squires in command. Squires will be temporarily reassigned...

JACKSONVILLE, FL -- The crew of the USS John F. Kennedy rescued six people from a sinking Iranian cargo dhow over the weekend. "We thought we were dead. We made smoke so people could see us. Three boats passed us before the helicopter cam to get us," said Mortata G. Asfendeary through a translator. A distress signal was initially received by USS Mobile Bay (CG 53), which was operating with Expeditionary Strike Group Three (ESG 3) in the North Arabian Sea. The Mobile Bay relayed the message to the John F. Kennedy. The Kennedy dispatched two HH-60 helicopters from HS-15...

USS JFK Rescues Iranian Mariners in Arabian Gulf Story Number: NNS040814-01 Release Date: 8/14/2004 1:59:00 PM From Commander, Joint Forces Maritime Component Commander/Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/Commander, U.S. 5th Fleet Public Affairs ABOARD USS JOHN F. KENNEDY (NNS) -- USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) rescued six mariners from an Iranian cargo dhow Aug. 14, after learning that the vessel was taking on water. The distress signal was initially received by USS Mobile Bay (CG 53), which was operating with Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 3 in the Arabian Gulf. Because the vessel was more than 200 nautical miles away,...

Carrier’s run-in with dhow raises red flags Officials seek answers after ship struck, sank small boat BY MATTHEW DOLAN THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT     How could a small boat designed for fishing in the Persian Gulf get so close to a multibilliondollar American carrier equipped with state-ofthe-art radar and armed with its own air force?     That’s the question Navy investigators are still asking after the carrier John F. Kennedy struck and sank the mysterious boat in the Persian Gulf on July 22.     No survivors or remains from the small boat, known as a dhow, have been recovered. The crew of the Mayport, Fla.-based...

Navy Investigates Warship Collision Associated Press WASHINGTON - The Navy is investigating how a small wooden boat was able to approach and ram into an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf last month, military officials said. The collision appears to be accidental, Navy official says, but has renewed fears of suicide attacks against U.S. warships. Nearly four years ago, a deadly terrorist strike against a Navy destroyer in Yemen led to significant changes in the way the service deals with civilian craft. On the night of July 22, a dhow smashed into the starboard hull of the USS John F....

Oceana-based jets bomb insurgent targets in Iraq, Navy says By MATTHEW DOLAN, The Virginian-Pilot © July 22, 2004 Last updated: 7:46 PM Virginia Beach-based fighter jets destroyed two enemy positions in Iraq this week, the Navy announced Wednesday. The bombing runs against insurgent strongholds on Tuesday marked the John F. Kennedy’s first active engagement of enemy targets since the Mayport, Fla.-based aircraft carrier arrived in the Persian Gulf. The two fighter jets are part of Carrier Air Wing 17 , based at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach and deployed on the Kennedy. An F-14 Tomcat from the VF-103...

USS Truman: Out for fun and games? FILE UNDER: 'NO WAY TO DELAY THAT TROUBLE COMING EVERY DAY'USS Harry S. Truman, USS Enterprise Leave Norfolk to Test Navy's Deployment Capabilities (AP) - The USS Harry S. Truman sailed Wednesday- and the USS Enterprise left Thursday - in a test of the Navy's ability to have seven of its 12 carriers away from port simultaneously, a major shift from the way carriers have traditionally been used. The two Norfolk-based carriers are participating in the exercise, dubbed "Summer Pulse 04." "Summer Pulse 04" continues through August, with seven carriers conducting joint exercises...

  040317-N-6528K-089 Pensacola, Fla. (Mar. 17, 2004 – USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) arrives at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., for a four-day port visit after completing a Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMTUEX) in the Gulf of Mexico. COMPTUEX is an intermediate level exercise designed to forge the strike group into a cohesive fighting team and is a critical step in pre-deployment training. During COMPTUEX, more than a dozen ships, and Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17) embarked on Kennedy, conducted war game exercises using training ranges along the East Coast of the U.S. and the Gulf of Mexico....

Department of the Navy This to certify that The Secretary of the Navy Has Awarded the NAVY AND MARINE CORPS COMMENDATION MEDAL to Jeffrey Clark US NAVY for Meritorious service as ship's nurse while to USS John F Kennedy (CV 67) from March 2002 to March 2004. Lieutenant Clark consistently performed his demanding duties in an exemplary and highly professional manner. He was instrumental in providing outstanding emergency care in an austure and remote environment aboard John F Kennedy during Operation Enduring Freedom. His outstanding treatment of Man-Down situations including the life-saving treatment of a coaltion sailor who required multiple...