Large Oceana Has Large Impact: Denizens of the Navy's Master Jet Base 'Live in the Economy' of Area
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By By Ray McAllister, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  Jun. 8--BY RAY McALLISTER Times-Dispatch Staff Writer   In 1940, the U.S. government bought 329 acres in Virginia Beach and three years later used the land to open a small auxiliary air field for Norfolk's military complex.
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By Timothy R. Gaffney, Dayton Daily News, Ohio  Sep. 9--An Air Force contract worth $627.8 million should generate local  high-tech jobs and shows what was at stake in last year's military  base-closing process, a Dayton Development Coalition executive said Friday.
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RAMSTEIN, GERMANY . Air Force Capt. Kieran Keelty wiped tears from his face as he spoke of the remains of U.S. troops that pass almost daily through his workplace, Ramstein Air Base.
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By Rick Alm, The Kansas City Star, Mo.  Feb. 1--When the 147-acre Marine Corps Support Activity base at the former Richards-Gebaur Airport closes in 2011, 27 acres could be set aside for the homeless.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 23  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today the Navy released a flawed environmental impact statement supporting its decision to build a landing field near Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in eastern North Carolina.
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By Frantom, Todd  Spruce-covered mountains located on 5,000 largely forested acres provide radio-transmitting capabilities the Pacific submarine fleet. This "state-of-the-art" site has been one of the Navy's top secrets since the 1950s.
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By Kate Wiltrout, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 24--NORFOLK -- After almost two years and $3.5 million in additional research, the Navy said Friday it stands by its decision to put a jet practice field in Washington County, N.C.
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When you hear the phrases &quot;strong military&quot; or &quot;military-industrial complex,&quot; one country comes right to mind.
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Marked by a rich military history and a poor economy, U.S. territory pays high cost in war.
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The critical base of the ocean food web is shrinking as the world's seas warm, new NASA satellite data show. The discovery has scientists worried about how much food will grow in the future for the world's marine life.
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Study illustrates extent to which overfishing, air pollution and commercial shipping impact oceans.
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Recent developments in the southern Philippines offer a degree of hope to Pentagon planners.
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By Jesse Leavenworth, The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Jun. 13--A true vision from the U.S. military: American forces identify an enemy stronghold. Instead of conventional weapons, they unleash a mass spritzing of an aphrodisiac that turns straight men into gay men.
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&quot;Gotcha pal! Be careful next time,&quot; the radio crackled in the cockpit of a Russian-made Indian war jet as a US F-16 scored a &quot;kill&quot; during a multi-nation naval drill in the Bay of Bengal.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A mile offshore from this city's high-rise condos and spring-break bars lie as many as 2 million old tires, strewn across the ocean floor - a white-walled, steel-belted monument to good intentions gone awry.
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By BRIAN SKOLOFF  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Just below the sea's surface off Florida's southeast coast lies a virtual gold mine.  It's not sunken treasure or a Spanish galleon but rather nature's bounty: rows of coral reefs that generate billions of dollars a year in tourism spending.
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By MICHAEL TUTTON  GREENWOOD, N.S. (CP) - Bill Bond is haunted by the memory of three airmen he was unable to save when a Cormorant helicopter plunged into the ocean off Nova Scotia last summer.