United States Navy

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** FILE ** This photo, displayed on a leaflet that was distributed by the U.S. military to civilians in Logar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on July 25, 2010, shows a missing U.S. Navy sailor, whom the Navy identified as Petty Officer 3rd Class Jarod Newlove, a 25-year-old from the Seattle area. (AP Photo)

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The U.S. Navy's Aegis destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG-56), arrives for joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises at Donghae Harbor, South Korea, Saturday, July 24, 2010. North Korea warned Saturday that joint U.S. and South Korean military exercises poised to begin this weekend amount to a military provocation that will draw a "powerful" nuclear response from Pyongyang. (AP Photo/Yonhap)

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** FILE ** A U.S. Navy E-2C Hawkeye aircraft is shown in 2006. A similar Navy Hawkeye crashed into the North Arabian Sea on Wednesday. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Photographer's Mate Airman Joshua Olson)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS The U.S. Navy's Zumwalt DDG 1000 destroyer

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** FILE ** In an Aug. 22, 2004, photo provided by the US Navy, General Dynamics test engineers rest in modified berthing facilities in the Torpedo Room aboard the pre-commissioned nuclear submarine Virginia during sea trials in the Atlantic ocean. The Navy is considering allowing women to serve aboard submarines for the first time, 16 years after bringing female sailors onto surface combat ships. (AP Photo/ US Navy, Petty Officer 1st class James Pinsky)

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U.S. NAVY The USS Chung-Hoon sails the Gulf of Mexico during her builder's sea trials in 2004. Last week, the destroyer came to the aid of a U.S. ocean surveillance ship being harassed by Chinese vessels in the South China Sea.