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Guilty Plea in ‘Fat

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Leonard’ Scandal the World.

In what has become the largest corrup- tion scandal in U.S. Navy history, former

U.S. Navy commander Troy Amundson pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiracy to commit bribery, admitting that he con- spired with foreign defense contractor

Leonard Glenn Francis, a.k.a. “Fat Leon- ard,” and his Singapore-based company,

Glenn Defense Marine Asia (GDMA), to take bribes such as entertainment ex- penses and the services of prostitutes in exchange for sending business to the

GDMA.

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Cmdr. Troy Amundson (right) in 2010.

U.S. Navy photo by Jessica Bidwell

NASA, Navy Practice Recovery @ Sea

A joint team of NASA and U.S. Navy personnel are testing new equipment and practicing procedures for recovering astronauts that have splashed down in the Paci? c upon returning from space travel.

NASA’s deep space exploration systems will send a crew through space at 25,000 miles per hour, travelling some 40,000 miles be- yond the Moon before coming back home. When returning to Earth, the Orion spacecraft will slow to a mere 300 mph as it passes through the Earth’s atmosphere, eventually slowing to 20 mph before it safely splashing down in the ocean.

https://www.marinelink.com/news/spacecraft-practice433269

U.S. Navy photo by Abe McNatt

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