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"Forgotten Sisters" Wrap-Up
Senior editor Rui Matos put together a wonderful campaign wrap-up for the successful “Forgotten Sisters” campaign. Check it out.
Wrap-Up
Community Build Session 3
It's getting to be that time again, mates, we have 11 days left in Build Session 3 of our "Community Build Contest".
Don't forget to record your progress with your best images, and have them uploaded and posted into your individual blogs by 9/01/08, EST, to be eligible for this sessions points!
Community Build
New Diorama Kit from Fujimi
Fujimi Models stopped by the newsroom to show off their 1/700 Shipyard Dock kit. The kit contains everything you would need to construct the shipyard dock and the crane used for construction and repairs. Fujimi plans to release this kit in the near future for an estimated retail cost of $18.00
This Day in U.S. Naval History
1952 - In inter-service air operation at Chang Pyong-ni, Korea, U.S. Navy, Marine and Air Force aircraft destroy 80 percent of assigned area.
1959 - USS Thetis Bay (LPH 6) completes six-day humanitarian operation after floods in Taiwan.
1969 - Navy Seabees and Sailors from Helicopter Training Squadron (HT) 8 evacuated 820 people from Pass Christian, Miss., after Hurricane Camille.
Russia launches new Arctic mission
The Russian marine research vessel Akademik Fyodorov headed off to the Arctic with equipment for a new drifting North Pole station.
The vessel carry 64 researchers and 11 crew members, two helicopters, as well as more than 570 tons of equipment. The ship on 18 August headed east towards the Vilkitski straits and further to the island of Wragel, where 150 tons of equipment for a new research station will be unloaded.
The Akademik Fyodorov also carries 420 tons of equipment for this year’s drifting North Pole station. The North Pole - 36 is planned to start on an ice floe on 10 September and last until next summer. A group of 18 researchers, under the leadership of the experienced explorer Katarev, will man the station, Regnum reports.
The Akademik Fyodorov is expected to arrive in Murmansk on 24 September.
Russian researchers have long experience within Arctic research. Only last month, the North Pole – 35 ended dramatically when the ice floe on which the station was based dissolved north of Spitsbergen.
Photo of the Day
Flight Deck personnel simulate firefighting and hose-handling techniques on a training aircraft aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Roosevelt is conducting operations off the Atlantic Coast.
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