S&S - Still playing the name game with Navy and Marine Corps

From my archive of press clippings:

Stars and Stripes

Still playing the name game with Navy and Marine Corps


By Leo Shane III, Stars and Stripes

Stars and Stripes online edition, Wednesday, May 5, 2010


WASHINGTON — Rep. Walter Jones never expected changing the Department of Navy’s name would be a decade-long fight.

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Snippet(s):

"But each year since 2001 — the first year he proposed adding the Marine Corps to the official title — the North Carolina Republican has found himself on the House floor making an impassioned plea for the simple three-word change. And each year the measure has failed in the Senate."

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"The bill deals only with the formal title of the department, and would not change command structure or the missions of the Navy and Marine Corps."