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| TOMCAT — An F-14 Tomcat strike fighter jet assigned to the "Jolly Rogers" of Fighter Squadron One Zero Three conducts a mission over Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Photo by Capt. Dana Potts, USN |
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Rumsfeld Hails Troops’ Efforts
As Terrorist Pursuit Continues |
| By Gerry J. Gilmore / American Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON — U.S. Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld Tuesday said he continues to be impressed with the daily work of U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan in locating pockets of Al Qaeda and Taliban terrorists and uncovering weapon caches.
This weekend, the secretary pointed out to Pentagon reporters, Special Forces troops in Afghanistan took three suspected Al Qaeda fighters into custody. The alleged terrorists were then taken to Bagram Air Base, near the capital city of Kabul, for questioning, he added.
As part of the operation, Rumsfeld noted that U.S. troops also uncovered 10 high-explosive charges, 100 firing devices, 200 feet of detonation cord, five hand grenades and 82 mortar rounds.
This, the secretary said, was in addition to another weekend discovery of 50 rocket-propelled grenades, adding to "a mountain of arms and munitions" rounded up by U.S. and coalition troops in recent weeks.
By rounding up fugitive Al Qaeda and Taliban and their weapons, U.S. and coalition troops are providing the fledgling Afghan government the opportunity to develop, Rumsfeld noted. At the same time, Afghanistan's citizenry has the security environment they need to be able to return to a somewhat normal life, he said.
While saying the overall security situation in Afghanistan is essentially sound, Rumsfeld cautioned it is less so southeast of Kabul, where two competing warlords have not contributed to that region's stability. He said he believes that situation will eventually settle down enough for humanitarian workers to perform their missions. More |
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| Dr. William C. DeVries became famous as the pioneering surgeon who implanted the first permanent artificial heart. Now he's Lt. Col. DeVries of the U.S. Army Reserve. Seeing the flag flying on top of the hospital where he works "really means something to me," says the patriotic doc. "I feel like I'm just a small part of it, but I'm part of it." Story
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Experiment Blends Virtual
Battleground with Reality |
By Linda D. Kozaryn
American Forces Press Service
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WASHINGTON — Step behind the blue curtains with Annette C. Ratzenberger in the test bay at Millennium Challenge and you'll enter a world familiar to "Star Trek" fans.
Ratzenberger's "model simulation federation" isn't quite the futuristic holodeck where the fictional Starship Enterprise crew plays out their fantasies in the computer-generated, four-dimensional simulated environment. But the two-dimensional battle space Ratzenberger's computers generate is certainly a step in that direction.
Joint Forces Command's Millennium Challenge, currently under way in Suffolk, Va., is an experiment first and an exercise second, the chief of experimentation engineering said. About 80 percent of the forces involved are simulated. About 20 percent are real. The computer-generated battle scene enables military theorists and strategists to explore various operational concepts. Story
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Meta Waller, 60, worked in the Pentagon as special
programs manager for the administrative assistant
to the Army secretary.
She earned a bachelor's degree
from the University of Michigan and a master’s
from Harvard. She had an interest in the civil
rights movement and was inspired by her grandparents,
Meta Warrick Fuller, a sculptor, and Solomon
Carter Fuller, the first African American psychiatrist
in the U.S. She was a poet, a storyteller and
a world traveler.
We will not forget her.
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