The prime minister also edged out the police commissioner, Hardley Lewin, formerly a senior naval officer.
Washington says the ship was carrying with Iraqi oil and had an Iraqi naval officer on board.
Canada's government has moved to reassure allies, following the arrest of a naval officer charged with handing over secrets to a foreign power.
The choice of Fallon is surprising: A naval officer with little experience in the Middle East, he will be leading two ground wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In a rematch of a 2006 race, former naval officer Eric Massa beat GOP Rep. Randy Kuhl in a western New York district that generally votes Republican.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is recommending the nation's top Naval officer, Admiral Michael Mullen, to be nominated as the new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The widow of a naval officer who was shot dead by a junior rating on board a nuclear submarine has been awarded a medal to mark her loss.
Peacetime brought the return of Lieutenant Prince Philip of Greece, a handsome young naval officer who had, by all accounts, had won her heart when she was just 13.
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One Western naval officer says placing all the warships under a single command, perhaps of the UN, and adopting the same rules of engagement would help to make them more effective.
Fernandes has not responded to the charges against him except to say that before Bhagwat became the naval chief he had tampered with the annual confidential report of a naval officer.
It said the embassy personnel had been heading to a military installation in the town of El Capulin when a carload of gunmen opened fire on them and chased them, along with the Mexican naval officer accompanying them.
His personal views as a senior naval officer have been given, but they need to be balanced carefully against the professional views of the Service Chiefs who bear responsibilities for those who comprise their respective services that he does not.
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Tara Gaston, a 30-year old attorney in upstate New York, whose husband is a naval officer, says she understands why mothers, such as those with military spouses deployed overseas, may want to schedule a delivery so the husband can be present.
As a naval line officer, the commanding officer of a carrier is given broad responsibility for his ship.
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As a British Naval Intelligence officer, young Fleming rubbed elbows with some of those colorful characters at the hotel.
But retired naval Chief Petty Officer Stets says much more is at stake.
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The son of a retired naval chief petty officer, he experienced real poverty when, aged nine, his father died.
Kure, a grimy shipbuilding town down the coast from Hiroshima, was home to the Imperial Naval Academy (still an officer school).
"I lost my position as a Commanding Officer of a Naval Security Forces reserve unit at NAS Fallon because of the LAPD, " he wrote.
The absurdity of this situation was on display last week as the Navy's former senior officer, retired Chief of Naval Operations Vernon Clark, testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The Roundtable was followed by a working luncheon featuring remarks by Keynote Speaker Senator John Warner (R-VA), who has had a life-long and intimate association with the naval services in his capacity as an officer, as Secretary of the Navy, and now as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee's Sea Power Subcommittee.
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Better yet, he filed an unfair labor practices complaint after the officer turned him over to the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
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Sure, the Arsenal Ship was no favorite of vested naval interests who prefer vessels with lots of officer slots and who are wedded to the status quo.
Warner has had a life-long and intimate association with the naval services thanks to his previous roles as an officer in and Secretary of the Navy and his current responsibilities as Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee's Seapower Subcommittee.
In 2002, Gen Allen was promoted to Commandant of Midshipmen, the first Marine Corps officer to serve in this position at the Naval Academy.
As a former Navy surface officer himself, Allen knows first hand that naval support has limited effectiveness unless it is preceded by a close working relationship between ships and naval assets in the region.
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