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By NSWC Indian Head Division Public Affairs Indian Head, Md., Expeditionary Exploitation Unit 1 (EXU-1) personnel are widely regarded as the Navy’s premier mobile explosive ordnance disposal expeditionary and technical exploitation unit. With the reception of the Navy Unit Commendation (NUC) from the Secretary of the Navy, Dec. 15, they can now say they have it in writing.  “I’m incredibly proud of the EXU-1 team and thankful for the recognition that this awa...

Correct. the geographical area were having to service and the damage that the city has received as far as huge. so having the deployment of resources, getting resources to several areas has been challenging in some instances because the roads are impassable or whatever the situations present themselves to be. weve managed to deploy task force-type teams. its a task force approach. were resourcing each of the forward command areas with rescue boats, high water vehicles, with rescue divers and add...

Are going to have many homes that are flooded. were confident were going to have many homes that are flooded as the worst part of it comes in later on this evening. >> are your first responders still able in these conditions as we feel a bit of a breeze, stronger winds, actually, coming through right now? are they still able to get to people calling for help, calling for rescue? >> we are doing that geographically. our county is 642 square miles so we have some portions of the county that are un...

Conducting more nightly activities much like what we did with the abu sayyaf takedown. we need more boots on the ground to provide quality intelligence, to direct a more efficient, more effective, more aggressive air campaign. we need more of our personnel in the command areas with the iraqi military to provide the actual support that they need in order to become more effective. we cant just do this remotely. everybodys tired of the war on terror. everybodys fired from edtired from iraq and afgh...

Some are command areas, some are ammunition dumps. also telecommunications were hit yesterday to try to keep gadhafi from communicating with his troops on the front in the benghazi area and around miz rote because thats what hes using to attack the civilians there. >> peter, maybe you can start with the question, but i would like you both to answer it. clearly, theres a desire to get gadhafi gone. but is the mission enough to happen. diplomacy doesnt seem to be working well. is what is happening...

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