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  2. Navy Marine Corps Intranet - Wikipedia

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    Despite early challenges, NMCI will be the foundation on which the Navy and Marine Corps can build to support their broader strategic information management objectives. The U.S. Naval Institute reports that "Complaints about NMCI speed and reliability are near-constant" and a wired.com piece quotes an NMCI employee as saying:

  3. Flank speed - Wikipedia

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    Flank speed is an American nautical term referring to a ship 's true maximum speed but it is not equivalent to the term full speed ahead. Usually, flank speed is reserved for situations in which a ship finds itself in imminent danger, such as coming under attack by aircraft. Flank speed is very demanding of fuel and often unsustainable because ...

  4. Navy Office of Information West - Wikipedia

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    The Navy Office of Information West, also referred to as NAVINFO West, is a public affairs office in Westwood, Los Angeles that serves as the primary Navy liaison to feature films, documentaries, and television programs depicting or involving the US Navy. The office was founded in 1918. [1] This office also maintains close relations and ...

  5. Flanking maneuver - Wikipedia

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    Lists. v. t. e. The flanking maneuver is a basic military tactic with several variations. Flanking an enemy entails attacking from one or more sides, at an angle to the enemy's direction of engagement. There are three standard flanking maneuvers. The first maneuver is the ambush, where a unit performs a surprise attack from a concealed position.

  6. Marine Corps Installations West - Wikipedia

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    Kyle Wetter is the officer in charge of the marksmanship training division with Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations West, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, and was awarded the Navy and Marine Corps Medal. Subordinate commands. Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego is also a member of the MCICOM West Command.

  7. USS Long Beach (CGN-9) - Wikipedia

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    USS Long Beach (CLGN-160/CGN-160/CGN-9) was a nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser in the United States Navy and the world's first nuclear-powered surface combatant. [3] She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Long Beach, California . She was the sole member of the Long Beach -class, and the last cruiser built for the United ...

  8. USS Long Island (CVE-1) - Wikipedia

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    1 × 5 in (130 mm)/51 cal gun [1] 2 × 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal guns. Aircraft carried. 30. USS Long Island (CVE-1) (originally AVG-1 and then ACV-1) was lead ship of her class and the first escort carrier of the United States Navy. She was also the second ship to be named after Long Island, New York .

  9. USS Raton - Wikipedia

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    USS Raton (SS-270) during trials on Lake Michigan on 1 July 1943. USS Raton (SS/SSR/AGSS-270), a Gato -class submarine, was a ship of the United States Navy named for the raton, a polynemoid fish inhabiting semitropical waters off the Pacific coast of the Americas .