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Today President Bush delivered the commencement address at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. (Transcript with audio) In a written statement, the president also saluted the Virginia Tech class of 2007, which will be having its graduation ceremonies this weekend. (Transcript) President Bush returned to the White House this afternoon to commemorate Military Spouse Day and to present the President’s Volunteer Service Awards. (Transcript with audio) Vice President Dick Cheney departed the United Arab Emirates and arrived on the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis in the Persian Gulf. There, the vice president received a warm welcome from 4,000 sailors...

NASA announced plans on Monday to build a new engine test stand at Stennis Space Center in Hancock County. The announcement represents an estimated $175 million investment in Stennis and serves to support the Constellation Project. That's NASA's plan to return the United States to the Moon and eventually to Mars. The new stand at Stennis will test NASA's J-2X engines, which will be used in the second stage of the Ares I launch vehicle. NASA officials say the new 300-foot-tall open-frame design will allow engineers to simulate conditions at different altitudes. The new stand will be completed in time...

ABOARD USS JOHN C. STENNIS, March 6, 2007 – Navy, Marine Corps and Army personnel are working side by side aboard the USS John C. Stennis Strike Group supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The Stennis Strike Group is afloat in the 5th Fleet area of responsibility, which encompasses about 7.5 million square miles and includes the Arabian Gulf, Red Sea, Gulf of Oman and parts of the Indian Ocean. “This is the epitome of a joint operation,” said Navy Rear Adm. Kevin Quinn, commander of Carrier Strike Group 3. “Our primary mission is to conduct air operations in...

USS JOHN C. STENNIS, At Sea (NNS) -- The USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) Carrier Strike Group (JCSSG) entered the U.S. 7th Fleet’s area of responsibility (AOR) Jan. 31, as part of a deployment to promote peace, regional cooperation and stability. While Stennis and the rest of the strike group, led by Rear Adm. Kevin Quinn, is scheduled to transit from 7th Fleet to U.S. Central Command to provide support for coalition forces operating there, JCSSG remains ready to respond to any mission in any theatre of operation. “Our strike group provides an agile, flexible, responsive and robust set...

With tears streaming down her cheeks, Petty Officer 2nd Class Krystal Perez gave her 2-year-old daughter a birthday hug yesterday morning, then stepped aboard the guided-missile destroyer Preble for deployment to the Persian Gulf. “It's really hard,” said Perez, who had not planned to spend her daughter's birthday shipping out. “It's my job and I've got to do it,” said Perez, whose tour could last six months or more. “My family e-mails me every day so I know she's OK, and if she's OK, I'm OK. With crews of 250 each, the Preble and the destroyer Antietam left the San...

CALIFORNIA (NNS) -- Five Sailors aboard USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) were treated to a trip to the California speedway to watch the Stater Brothers 300 NASCAR race Feb. 25. The Sailors were selected to represent Stennis as part of the U.S. Navy Motorsports Fleet Honoree program. The program also featured Stennis’ name on the hood of the No. 88 Navy “Accelerate Your Life” Chevy Monte Carlo driven by rookie driver Mark McFarland. “We found out Jan. 31 that Stennis had been selected to be the fleet honoree for the race in California,” said Lt. Justin Lewis, Stennis’ stock...

ABOARD USS JOHN C. STENNIS (NNS) -- Sailors from USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), assisted a grateful community in Pearlington, Miss., in October by removing old refrigerators from the area, which had become a health hazard after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast coastline. Stennis, homeported in Bremerton, Wash., sent 50 volunteers to the hurricane-ravaged area of southern Mississippi. The aircraft carrier is named for Senator John C. Stennis of Miss., and considers the state its adopted home. "These smaller communities receive little attention after [Hurricane] Katrina," said Rick Hines, a FEMA volunteer from the West Indianapolis, Ind., fire...

STENNIS SPACE CENTER, Miss. (NNS) -- The Navy will build a 100-home community and offer to pay leases for hundreds of employees to keep a highly skilled workforce intact at the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command after Hurricane Katrina left about 450 workers homeless. In response to the unprecedented destruction, the command has set up a Navy Housing office to find places to live for Stennis-based military personnel and civilian workers at the Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (CNMOC), the Naval Oceanographic Office, the Naval Research Laboratory, Naval Special Boat Team 22 and Naval Small Craft Instruction and Technical Training...

Welcome To Your New Home, USS Stennis January 8, 2005   By KOMO Staff & News Services          BREMERTON - Armed with a large red and black umbrella, Beth Wiruth stood ashore in Bremerton and anxiously watched Saturday as the USS John C. Stennis slowly made its way to its new homeport at Naval Base Kitsap. "The ship is in sight!" Wiruth shouted as she scanned the deck where more than 2,500 sailors wearing their winter dress-blue uniforms stood at attention. "Ahh, it's just the best sight. It's just the best sight!" Wiruth was one of...

    Official U.S. Navy file photo of an F-14D Tomcat assigned to Fighter Squadron (VF) 31. The return of the squadron marks the final deployment of the F-14 Tomcat to the Pacific Coast. View Larger Download HiRes   Tomcatters Return from Pacific DeploymentStory Number: NNS041029-01Release Date: 10/29/2004 7:24:00 AMFrom Commander, Naval Air Force, U.S. Atlantic Fleet Public AffairsNORFOLK, Va. (NNS) -- The “Tomcatters” of Fighter Squadron (VF) 31 will return to their home base at Naval Air Station Oceana Oct. 31, following a five-month deployment to the Western Pacific aboard the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN...

FReepers, with all of the contacts we have across the nation, I am hoping that someone can help. I want to speak with survivors of Senators John Stennis, Strom Thurmond, or John Tower. Nov. 12-15, 1971, leadership of the VVAW met in Kansas City and debated and voted on whether to assassinate seven senators, including those above named. Although John Kerry denied being there, witnesses place him at that meeting and then resigning his leadership position. I hope to contact surviving relatives of the three senators to see if any of them will go on record with a public question...

WASHINGTON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - An S-3B Viking warplane from the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis crashed during an exercise in the Pacific near Japan on Tuesday and four crew members are listed as missing, the U.S. Navy said. Search-and-rescue efforts were being conducted by the Stennis and another carrier taking part in the exercise, the USS Kitty Hawk, the U.S. Seventh Fleet in Japan said in a statement. The cause of the crash was being investigated, according to the statement. The incident took place 45 miles (70 km) off the coast of the island of Iwo Jima...

Why do the major dailies continue to spike the story of John Kerry's role in the Nov. 12-15, 1971, "assassination summit" in Kansas City at which Kerry participated in the secret discussion and vote by the executive board of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) on whether to murder seven U.S. senators and other leaders who continued to resist New Left demands that Vietnam be turned over to the Viet Cong? Tom Lipscomb, founding editor of (New York) Times Books, has nailed it all down in the New York Sun with an FBI surveillance report and six eyewitnesses, of...

This is the first of what I hope will be a series of one page, printable documents dealing with the election. I hope you will have the patience to read through to the punch line. Democrats Speak Out Against Tasteless Humor ''Those weapons of mass destruction have got to be somewhere ... "George Bush, March 24, 2004 ''This is a very serious issue,'' Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe said Friday on ''Good Morning America'' on ABC. ''We've lost hundreds of troops, as you know, over there. Let's not be laughing about not being able to find weapons of mass...

This is the American Forces Vietnam Network. < -snip- > News compiled from major commercial and military news sources. It’s 5 pm. In the top of the News, Senator John Stennis underwent a lengthy operation at Walter Reed Army Medical Center after he was shot during a hold up in front of his Washington home today. The surgery was for the removal of two bullets, one from the Senator’s chest, and one from his left leg. A hospital spokesman says that Stennis’ condition is listed as stable. White House News Secretary Ronald Ziegler says that President Nixon has been informed...

A Vietnam veteran who plotted to kill members of Congress in 1971 is reportedly ready to accept a position working in the presidential campaign of John Kerry. Leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War, including John Kerry, debated a plot to assassinate congressmen in November 1971, according to a report in the New York Sun. The Kerry campaign denies the senator and presidential candidate was present at the meeting, saying he quit the organization prior to the heated session in Kansas City, Nov. 12-15, 1971. However, Randy Barnes of Missouri Veterans for Kerry, disputes that account. Barnes participated in...

The anti-war group that John Kerry was the principal spokesman for debated and voted on a plot to assassinate politicians who supported the Vietnam War. Mr. Kerry denies being present at the November 12-15, 1971, meeting in Kansas City of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, and says he quit the group before the meeting. But according to the current head of Missouri Veterans for Kerry, Randy Barnes, Mr. Kerry,who was then 27,was at the meeting, voted against the plot, and then orally resigned from the organization. Mr. Barnes was present as part of the Kansas City host chapter for the...

The importance of beating Haley Robert Novak (archive) October 30, 2003 JACKSON, Miss. -- Rudy Giuliani was here earlier. Dick Cheney campaigned in the state Monday. George W. Bush on Saturday will make two stops in Mississippi. And to cap it off, auto driver Darrell Waltrip arrives before Tuesday's election. All are trying their best to elect as governor Haley Barbour, a major player in national Republican politics for a generation. No prominent national Democrat dares set foot in the state to help re-elect Gov. Ronnie Musgrove. He would meet Bill Clinton or Al Gore at the state line to...

Dateline: NBC News To Spotlight USS John C. Stennis By Journalist 2nd Class David-Michael Ross, USS John C. Stennis USS JOHN C. STENNIS, At Sea (NNS) -- After a 48-hour period of videotaping aboard USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw and his production staff have "wrapped" and headed back to New York to put together a one-hour program based on the day-in-the-life of a warship involved in battle. Brokaw said that he and NBC producers gathered to discuss the recent production of "Inside the White House: Inside the Real West Wing," a program that gave...