Navy Lt. Melvin Spence Dry dropped out of a helicopter into choppy waters off the coast of North Vietnam in June 1972. On a classified mission to rescue two escaped U.S. prisoners of war, he died the moment he hit the water. ...more

February 26, 2008

The missile that took down a disabled spy satellite last week almost certainly destroyed a tank filled with potentially harmful hydrazine fuel, the Pentagon said Monday. ...more

February 26, 2008

The unprecedented downing of an errant spy satellite by a Navy missile makes clear that the Pentagon has a new weapon in its arsenal: an antisatellite missile adapted from the nation's missile defense program. ...more

February 22, 2008

WASHINGTON - Debris from an obliterated U.S. spy satellite is being tracked over the Pacific and Atlantic oceans but appears to be too small to cause damage on Earth, a senior military officer said Thursday, just hours after a Navy missile scored a direct hit on the failing spacecraft. ...more

February 21, 2008

A Navy ship in the Pacific Ocean will try an unprecedented shootdown of an out-of-control spy satellite loaded with a toxic fuel as it begins its plunge to Earth, national security officials said Thursday. ...more

February 15, 2008

Our country finds itself on the threshold of success in our long, hard-fought struggle toward racial tolerance and equality. Barack Obama, a product of a mixed marriage between a caucasian woman and a black man from Africa, won the Democratic caucuses in Iowa. This victory is of significant importance because the overwhelming majority of Iowa's population is caucasian. There are very, very few African-Americans in the entire state. Obama went on to win 13 other states on Super Tuesday. Furthermore, the candidacy of Obama has fueled a tsunami of political excitement among first-time voters — mostly those between the ages of 18 to 25. ...more

February 13, 2008

Al-Qaida, increasingly tamped down in Iraq, is establishing cells in other countries as Osama bin Laden's organization uses Pakistan's tribal region to train for attacks in Afghanistan, the Middle East, Africa and the United States, the U.S. intelligence chief said Tuesday. ...more

February 6, 2008

The U.S. missile strike that killed a top al-Qaida commander slightly more than a mile from a Pakistani military base shows how entrenched Islamic militants are in the lawless tribal regions, where extremists have launched increasingly bold attacks. ...more

February 2, 2008

William J. Crowe Jr., 82, the Navy admiral who held the nation's top military job as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the Cold War neared its end, died of cardiac arrest Thursday at suburban Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland. ...more

October 19, 2007

Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is troubled by the Iraq war. He thinks it has become such a consuming focus of U.S. attention that it may be overstretching the military and distracting the nation from other threats. ...more

October 1, 2007