Tempers barely cooled when President Bush announced last year that the Navy would withdraw in May 2003.

In the early 1970s, the Navy withdrew from the project.

The demands of the Vietnam War and the resultant pilot shortage caused the Navy to withdraw its commitment.

The Navy withdrew the report later, saying no American sailor had been killed.

The value of seniority, he said, can be seen in his ability to place other Federal agencies at the Charleston base after the Navy withdrew.

The South African Navy withdrew their last Wasp in 1990.

The Navy withdrew after the war, however, and in 1972, the National Park Service began reclaiming lands for urban parks.

Faced with utter destruction, the Vietnamese Navy withdrew, content to send an occasional reconnaissance flight over the region.

The vessels were not effective and the Navy withdrew them, selling most.

The Navy stopped bombing and withdrew from the land.