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| BACK SEAT VIEW — A C-17 Globemaster III moves in to refuel from a KC-10 Extender over the Black Sea in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Photo by Tech. Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald, USAF |
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War on Terrorism, India-Pakistan
Hot Topics on Rumsfeld's Trip |
| By Gerry J. Gilmore / American Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON, June 3, 2002 — The war on terrorism and relations between India and Pakistan represent two hot topics on U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's agenda as he begins a trip Tuesday that will span Europe, South Asia and the Middle East, senior Defense Department officials said Monday.
The secretary's European schedule features a stop in London to meet with the British Secretary of State for Defense Geoffrey Hoon. Moving on to Brussels, Belgium, Rumsfeld is to attend multilateral North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense ministerial meetings, including first-ever NATO-Russia Committee talks, a senior Defense Department official noted.
The London and Brussels meetings will feature updates on the war against terrorism, he said. Another topic of discussion in Brussels, he noted, will involve selection of new NATO members during November meetings slated in Prague, Czech Republic.
Slated for discussion in Brussels will be possible NATO-Russia cooperative initiatives such as training and sharing airspace security information, an official said. Talks in Brussels will also focus on new NATO capabilities such as military air cargo and troop deployment issues, and the revamping of the alliance's command, control and communications systems.
Rumsfeld is scheduled to visit a NATO AWACS facility in Germany. He is to fly on to the Estonian capital of Tallinn to meet senior defense representatives from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, all of whom want to join NATO.
Rumsfeld will also visit India and Pakistan, a senior Defense Department official said, to meet with their senior defense officials and to help lessen current bellicose relations between the two South Asian nuclear powers. More |
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| Firefight Results in 'Friendly Force' Casualties |
| By Gerry J. Gilmore / American
Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON, June 3, 2002 — American and allied Afghan military forces conducting a raid May 31 mistakenly fired on other friendly Afghan troops, killing two and wounding three, a U.S. military official reported from Afghanistan Monday.
At about 1 a.m. local time, a U.S. Special Forces element and the allied Afghan troops engaged in a firefight near the village of Khomar Kalay in southeastern Afghanistan, said Maj. Gary Tallman, a public affairs officer with U.S. Army Combined Joint Task Force 180. The fight lasted less than two minutes. No Americans or accompanying Afghans were injured.
The U.S.-Afghan unit was in the area based on intelligence that a Taliban-Al Qaeda meeting was to take place in a compound in the vicinity. The unit went to the area to capture participants once they left the compound after the meeting. More |
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| The Greening of Kabul |
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| U.S. soldiers help clean up the Kabul Municipal Greenhouse |
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Jun 03, 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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U.S. Green Berets Help
Restore Children's Hope |
| As U.S. Army Lt. Col. Kevin McDonnell drove through the busy streets of Kabul, Afghan children waved and shouted "Thank you" and "Hello". His passenger, Afghan Col. Najibullah Sadiqi, observed that the children were "very trustworthy" of him. "How does it make you feel?" he asked. McDonnell smiled. "It makes me feel very good," he said. Story
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About Face! Civilians
Join Military on Tour |
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| Disembarking from an Air Force C-130 |
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| A group of 55 civic, business and industry leaders recently got up close and personal with the U.S. military. During a week-long program, they toured warships, flew in military aircraft, tried out training simulators, fired weapons and got top-level briefings at the Pentagon. Said one participant: "It gave me a new appreciation for the training and professionalism needed to be a part of our United States military." Story |
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Wolfowitz Visits U.S.
Troops on Basilan Island |
By Jim Garamone
American Forces Press Service |
BASILAN ISLAND, The Philippines, June 3, 2002 — Deputy U.S. Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz met with U.S. service members fighting the war on terrorism in a different, vital manner.
Wolfowitz traveled to this southern Philippine island today to meet with members of Joint Task Force 510 and to assess U.S. efforts in training and assisting Philippine forces to deal with terrorist groups that have found a haven here. The effort is due to end in July, and around 1,000 U.S. troops are in the area now.
Philippine Secretary of National Defense Angelo Reyes told reporters traveling with Wolfowitz that the Philippines favors extending the U.S. stay in the area. More |
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| Darin Howard Pontell |
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 U.S. Navy Lt. Darin H. Pontell, 26, worked in the Pentagon.
Upon graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1998 as an intelligence officer, he reported to the Navy and Marine Corps Intelligence Training Command in Dam Neck, Va. He was assigned to Carrier Air Wing Seven as the Collections Officer. He was later deployed to the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf aboard the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower. He received the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Naval Commendation Medal, Navy Achievement Medal and National Defense Service Medal. He was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal.
"He was thoughtful and generous and wanted to make everyone around him happy," said his wife, Devora Sue Wolk. " He would do whatever it took to make his family and friends smile."
We will not forget him.
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