United States Navy
Events Related To United States Navy
| 2001 | Week of Jan 23 |
President Clinton ordered the Pentagon to review a study which found that residents of a small Puerto Rican island where the Navy conducts bombing tests have a high rate of a rare heart condition caused by loud noises.» |
| Week of May 1 |
Former senator Bob Kerry admitted that in 1969 he led a Navy Seals commando unit that slaughtered at least 13 unarmed women and children.» | |
| Week of Jul 24 |
Vice President Dick Cheney thought it would be a good idea for the Navy to pay his $186,000 home electric bill.» | |
| 2003 | Week of Feb 11 |
Protesters in Shannon, Ireland, attacked a U.S. Navy plane with hammers, spray paint, and human blood. » |
| May 7 | Donald Rumsfeld, the secretary of defense, nominated an oilman from New Mexico to be secretary of the Navy.»[Associated Press] | |
| Oct 23 | A former Navy lawyer revealed that President Lyndon B. Johnson and Robert McNamara, his secretary of defense, ordered those who were investigating the 1967 Israeli attack on the American ship Liberty to conclude that the incident, in which 34 American servicemen died, was an accident, even though the evidence pointed overwhelmingly to the contrary.»[Associated Press] | |
| 2004 | Oct 20 | The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the world's whales had no standing to sue President Bush over the Navy's use of sonar equipment that kills them.»[Reuters] |
| Dec 4 | More photos documenting the mistreatment of prisoners in Iraq were acquired by American news sources. The pictures, many taken in the aftermath of raids, show Navy Seals abusing hooded and handcuffed men by sitting on them, holding guns to their heads, and stepping on their chests. A woman whose husband had served in Iraq had posted the pictures on a photo-sharing website, and an AP reporter found them through a Google search.»[AP] | |
| Dec 29 | Six Navy Seals and two of their wives sued the Associated Press for publishing photographs of the men posing and grinning amid hooded prisoners; a reporter found the photos after one of the wives posted them on smugmug.com, a website she had thought was secure.»[New York Times] | |
| 2005 | Jan 10 | More reports surfaced detailing torture in Iraq, this time with Navy SEALs and the CIA as the instigators.[Sacramento Bee]» |
| Mar 6 | The U.S. Navy was looking into whether sonar confuses dolphins, causing them to surface too quickly and get the bends.[Boston.com]» | |
| Jun 24 | The U.S. Navy sent a letter to Fola Coats, an eighty-year-old Arkansas woman, asking her to join the Seabees.[KATV.com]» | |
| Jul 10 | In Afghanistan, the Taliban beheaded ten Afghan soldiers and killed a Navy SEAL.[The Guardian]» | |
| Sep 25 | Thirty-six military-trained dolphins with toxic dart guns were reported missing in the Gulf of Mexico.[The Guardian]» | |
| Nov 30 | At the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, President George W. Bush gave a speech on the Iraq war. “As Iraqi forces grow more capable,” he said, “they're increasingly taking the lead in the fight against the terrorists.”[CNN.com]» | |
| 2006 | Mar 18 | The U.S. Navy said that it had killed a pirate off the coast of Somalia.[BBC News]» |
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