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girls gather outside their classrooms at a school
near Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. U.S. Army Reserve
soldiers from the 489th Civil Affairs Battalion
at Knoxville, Tenn., are working with contractors
to provide funding to repair the damaged school
house in the Jabel Seraj district. Photo by Staff
Sgt. Ricky A. Bloom, USAF |
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Rumsfeld: U.S. Will
Help Afghan
Authority Survive, Provide Services |
| By Linda D. Kozaryn / American
Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON,
May 8, 2002 — Given the nature of Afghanistan's porous
borders and the fact that some Al Qaeda and Taliban forces are
on the loose, U.S. and coalition forces still have work to do,
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday at
the Pentagon.
"There are still Al Qaeda and Taliban
(terrorists) in the country and in neighboring countries,"
the secretary said. "They still intend to do what they
can to destabilize the Karzai Interim Authority. We intend to
see that that doesn't happen."
U.S. defense officials have no intention of
announcing an end date for the mission, Rumsfeld said. "We
are some distance from effectively finishing the task of seeing
that the interim government is able to survive (and) is able
to provide the kinds of civil services that are going to be
important for the enormous number of refugees that are coming
back into that country at the present time," he said.
The U.S. role, Rumsfeld stressed, is to go
after Al Qaeda and Taliban forces, help train the Afghan army
and be supportive of the International Security Assistance Force.
It also includes encouraging other coalition countries to provide
humanitarian assistance and to participate in helping to train
the army.
"The Germans are helping to train the
police force," he said. "The French are helping with
the army. We are contributing to a more stable country by our
participation and presence in Bagram, to the north of Kabul,
and Kandahar to the south." More |
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| Eberhart
to Head U.S. Northern Command |
| By Gerry J. Gilmore / American
Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON,
May 8, 2002 — The commander of the U.S. military's space
and continental air defense assets has been chosen to lead the
nation's premier military homeland defense organization.
U.S. Air Force Gen. Ralph E. Eberhart has
been nominated by President George W. Bush to command the soon-to-be
established U.S. Northern Command, Defense Secretary Donald
H. Rumsfeld said Wednesday. The nomination requires U.S. Senate
confirmation.
Northern Command will take the homeland security
missions being performed by various combatant commanders and
put them under a single command. The new organization is slated
for activation Oct. 1 at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs,
Colo., as part of changes to the defense Department's Unified
Command Plan announced April 17. Eberhart currently wears three
hats as the commander in chief of both U.S. Space Command and
the North American Aerospace Defense Command and as Defense
Department manager for Space Transportation Systems Contingency
Support. A command pilot, Eberhart flew 300 combat missions
in Vietnam. Story |
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and women of the U.S. military by signing this
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Pentagon Chemical
Drill
Tests Threat Response |
| Gray smoke billowed
from a nearby explosive. Pleas for help mixed with the
shouted commands of police and other first responders.
Unlike Sept. 11, the chaos at the Pentagon Wednesday was
only a drill as officials tested emergency services' response
to a simulated chemical attack. Story |
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Rumsfeld Decides
Against
Crusader Artillery System |
By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON —
U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld announced Wednesday
that he has decided to terminate the Crusader artillery
system.
The decision is "not about one
weapon system," Rumsfeld said, but about "a
strategy of warfare that drives the choices we must make
about how best to prepare the nation's total forces for
the future. … We have an obligation to ensure that
U.S. forces will overmatch the capabilities of any potential
adversary now and into the future." Story
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| Linking Priorities to Aid
Community - Coalition Joint Civil Military Operations
Task Force (CJCMOTF) Kabul is co-hosting weekly
coordination meetings with the Afghan Assistance
Coordination Authority (AACA) and the NGO/IO community.
CJCMOTF began the meetings in an effort to communicate
Afghan Interim Authority priorities to the donor
community and to assist AACA in serving as the central
coordinating body for long-term development and
reconstruction projects until the ministries are
self-sufficient. The meetings provide a central
forum for information sharing and reviewing project
proposals to ensure they support the Authority's
National Development Framework priorities. Meeting
participants include the International Security
Assistance Force, U.S. Agency for International
Development, Department of International Development
(UK), U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Afghan
Information Management Service and other NGOs. |
| Contract to Repair Sole Veterinary
Clinic - Civil Military Operations Center-North
signed the final contract on the Veterinarian Clinic
repair project in Mazar-e-Sharif. The project entails
infrastructure repairs and equipment purchase for
the city's only veterinarian clinic, which serves
as a major hub for regional veterinarian care in
the second most populated Afghan province, Balkh.
The project will benefit approximately 90,000 people
in the region, many of whom depend on livestock
for their well being, both for subsistence and income.
The Overseas Humanitarian Disaster and Civic Aid
program is funding the project. |
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| Gerard P. Moran |
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 Gerard
P. "Jerry" Moran, 39, worked at the Pentagon
as an engineering contractor for the U.S. Navy,
doing video teleconferencing.
He studied photojournalism
at the University of Oklahoma and traveled the
world as a combat photographer for the Navy
from 1979 to 1984. He was a humorist and a humanitarian.
When not coaching softball, baseball or power
lifting, he enjoyed cooking, relaxing at home
with his family and trout fishing with his brother
Kevin.
Survivors include his wife
of 18 years, Joyce, a retired Navy photographer,
and two children, Shannon and Dane.
We will not forget him.
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