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catapult crew aboard USS Nimitz give the OK sign
to launch one of the new F/A-18F Super Hornets from
the ship's flight deck. Photo by Photographer's
Mate Airman Kristi Earl, USN |
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Powell Urges NATO to
Increase
Airlift, Modernize to Meet Threat |
| By Linda D. Kozaryn / American
Forces Press Service |
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WASHINGTON, May 16, 2002 — NATO is
as relevant today as it has been in the past, but the alliance
needs to develop its capabilities to combat global terrorism
and other new threats, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell
told NATO foreign ministers in Iceland.
"We all need to have highly mobile,
sustainable forces with modern combat capabilities —
forces that can get to the fight, wherever it is, and carry
out a mission with efficiency and precision," Powell
said. Specifically, he noted, NATO needs more airlift capability.
"The kinds of challenges NATO may be facing in the future
won't always be located in Central Europe. NATO has to have
the ability to move to other places."
During the meeting May 14 and 15, Powell
said the NATO allies reaffirmed their commitment to defeat
terrorism and committed their nations to strengthening both
national and collective capacities for doing so. He said greater
investment is needed in communications and intelligence capabilities
and navigation devices that can provide precise information
about a potential opponent and their own forces. More
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| Rumsfeld: Crusader
Not 'Transformational' |
| By Gerry J. Gilmore / American
Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON,
May 16, 2002 — U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld
told Senate Armed Services Committee members Thursday that the
Crusader is a good artillery system that doesn't fit the Defense
Department's vision of future forces.
Rumsfeld pointed out to committee members
that he is carrying out President George W. Bush's directives
as outlined in a 1999 Citadel speech to transform the U.S. military
to meet anticipated 21st century threats. At the time, Bush
was a presidential candidate; his speech has been called his
blueprint for defense policies and plans.
Future warfighting strategy involves using
lighter-weight, rapidly deployable forces in combined arms operations
with air- and indirect-artillery-delivered precision munitions,
as the Joint Direct Attack Munition used in Afghanistan.
The Crusader, Rumsfeld noted, may achieve
a higher rate of fire and better maneuverability than the M-109
Paladin
self-propelled howitzer it is envisioned to replace, but it
lacks the transformational element of precision fire. Precision
was not part of the picture when the Crusader was designed,
Rumsfeld said. More |
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May 16, 2002
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May is National Military Appreciation Month in
the United States. Send your thanks to the men
and women of the U.S. military by signing this
online thank
you note
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Urban
Warfare: Training
For Battles of the Future |
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| Preparing
for anything |
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| No one
knows where the battles of the future will be fought,
but wherever they occur, Florida's Camp Blanding
can help prepare warriors for them. The 73,000-acre
site offers everything from a desert environment
to woodlands and swamp. Recently a group of airmen
from Moody Air Force Base in Georgia trained there
in urban warfare. Story |
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Pentagon is
Exploring
Alternatives to Crusader |
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON —
With the cancellation of the Army's Crusader artillery
system, the U.S. Defense Department is looking at promising
technologies that could give the service even more accurate
artillery capabilities — and faster.
Michael Wynne, principal deputy undersecretary
of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics,
said the idea behind canceling the Crusader is to accelerate
Army transformation by investing in other technologies.
He said the Army recognizes that being able to precisely
aim and to hit targets gives the service battlefield dominance.
The service would like to do for artillery and indirect
fire systems what precision-guided bombs has done for
the Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. More
Briefing
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| Donated Blood, Supplies Delivered
to a Kabul Hospital - Coalition Joint Civil
Military Operations Task Force - Public Health Team
(CJCMOTF-PHT) delivered medical supplies, equipment
and donated blood to the Afghan Military Hospital
in Kabul. The blood donation is part of a CJCMOTF-PHT-coordinated
effort to provide blood not being utilized by the
U.S. military to the Afghan military hospital on
a continuous, as-needed basis. To date, approximately
113 units of blood have been donated to the Afghan
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| Khang Nguyen |
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 Khang
Nguyen, 41, worked at the Pentagon as
a systems administrator for a U.S. Navy contractor.
He grew up amid war conditions
in South Vietnam and immigrated to Washington,
D.C. in 1981. After earning a B.S. degree from
the University of Maryland, he worked for the
Defense Information Systems Agency at the Pentagon
for 13 years and had recently begun work as
a systems administrator. He loved working at
the Pentagon and would buy hats and T-shirts
with government logos. He devoured books on
the military, particularly about the Vietnam
War. His family said he relished his new stable
life.
Survivors include his wife Tu and son An.
We will not forget him.
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