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** FILE ** Family members and friends in Norfolk, Va., welcome home the USS Enterprise after its 25th and final deployment, along with the 5,500 sailors and Marines who spent nearly eight months at sea. The Enterprise is the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. (Associated Press)

Navy issues furlough guidance to civilians

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

KEATING: The threat to the ships that carry the fight

By Timothy J. Keating

Loose lips save ships? Navy takes to Twitter to win sequestration PR battle

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

** FILE ** An F/A-18C Hornet takes off from the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in March 2007. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy, Paul J. Perkins, File)

From Top Gun to Risky Business: Budget cuts to force Navy to shutter four active aircraft carriers

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

**FILE** USS Harry S. Truman. (U.S. Navy)

Pentagon aims ax to make a point with sequester cuts, uses worst-case scenarios to force deal

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

**FILE** The graduation ceremony for the U.S. Naval Academy's class of 2012 at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium is held in Annapolis on May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Navy warns of reduced force amid spending cuts

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

In a scene from “SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama bin Laden,” actors portraying SEALs hunt down Osama bin Laden in his hideaway compound in Pakistan. (National Geographic Channels via Associated Press)

SEAL who killed bin Laden left uninsured, without pension

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Last week, a $3.3 billion overhaul and refueling of the Lincoln was postponed, with the budget sequester being cited. (U.S. Navy via Associated Press)

Military warns cuts would create ‘hollow force’ akin to 1970s

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

The deck of the aircraft carrier the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower is resurfaced as it is docked in Norfolk, Va., for repairs and maintenance, on Jan. 29, 2013. U.S. officials say that budget strains will force the Pentagon to cut its aircraft carrier presence in the Persian Gulf area from two carriers to one. The Eisenhower was in the Gulf but was brought home in December for maintenance. It will return later this month, but plans for the USS Harry S. Truman to deploy to the Gulf this week have been canceled. (Associated Press)

Navy delays aircraft carrier deployment to Middle East

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

**FILE** The U.S. Navy's Blue Angels fly over the graduation ceremony for the U.S. Navy Academy's class of 2012 at the Navy-Marine Corps Stadium, Annapolis, Md., on May 29, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Navy to clip Blue Angels’ wings if sequester hits

By Susan Crabtree - The Washington Times

**FILE** Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican (Associated Press)

Navy downsizes fleet to meet new needs

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Slain Navy SEAL sniper had new book in the works

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

**FILE** Navy Adm. Bill McRaven, commander of the U.S. Special Operations Command, addresses the National Defense Industrial Association in Washington on Feb. 7, 2012. (Associated Press)

Commander: Special ops to lose $1 billion

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

LYONS: Solving the Navy’s carrier shortage

By Adm. James A. Lyons

No amount of bragging rights about diversity in the ranks is worth failure in a mission or injury to our warriors, says columnist Christy Stutzman. If the standards are lowered for women Marines, what makes the institution elite? (U.S. Marine Corps)

Tough road ahead to move women into combat roles

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Rear Adm. Craig Faller, commander of the John C. Stennis Strike Group, is welcomed home by his wife, Martha, as the USS Stennis returned to Bremerton, Wash., in March. The stay was shortened from December to August. (Associated Press)

Close deployments, divided families

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Illustration U.S. Sinking Navy by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

LYONS: ‘Where are the carriers?’

By Adm. James A. Lyons Jr.

** FILE ** Family members and friends in Norfolk, Va., welcome home the USS Enterprise after its 25th and final deployment, along with the 5,500 sailors and Marines who spent nearly eight months at sea. The Enterprise is the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. (Associated Press)

Navy to stretch deployments; aircraft carrier fleet down to 9

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Congress blocks Pentagon from SAVING money

By Phillip Swarts - Washington Guardian

Family and friends of the crew of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower await pierside at Naval Station Norfolk on Dec. 12, 2012, as the ship approaches after a six-month deployment. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Julie Matyascik) **FILE**

Families struggle with long deployments of aircraft carrier crews

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times