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| FRIGHT
NIGHT — The 320th Expeditionary Medical
Support Group displays Halloween decorations at
their hospital at an undisclosed forward deployed
location. The fully functional hospital has an emergency
room, intensive care unit, a dental emergency area
as well as radiology and Computed Tomography Scan
(CAT scan) capabilities.
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| DANGER PERSISTS |
| Missiles
Fired at Kandahar Base |
| By Jim Garamone
/ American Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON,
Oct. 25, 2002 — The U.S. camp in Kandahar, Afghanistan
came under fire Oct. 24, U.S. Central Command officials said.
There were no casualties.
Officials
reported that someone fired two rockets at the field at about
10 p.m. The projectiles flew over the landing strip and impacted
on the other side of the base. Military commander alerted the
quick reaction force and soldiers searched the launch site,
an area about four miles from the base, and the impact area.
No suspects were found.
An
Afghan man turned in another arms cache at Orgun-e in Paktika
Province on the eastern edge of Afghanistan. Coalition soldiers
found 82 mm mortar rounds, hundreds of small arms rounds and
five anti-personnel mines. More |
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| U.S.
Can't Ignore Missile Threat |
| By Jim Garamone
/ American Forces Press Service |
| WASHINGTON,
Oct. 25, 2002 — The United States cannot afford to ignore
the threat posed by ballistic missiles, U.S. Deputy Defense
Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said during a speech to the Frontiers
of Freedom Institute here Oct. 24.
Wolfowitz said that, in the
aftermath the Sept. 11 attacks, some people have questioned
spending on missile defense. They maintain the United States
should expend funds on combating more obvious "low-tech"
terrorist threats.U.S. Cannot Ignore Ballistic Missile Threat.
"But the reality is that
we do not have the luxury of choosing to defend against only
one threat to the exclusion of others," he said. "The
horrific events of last year demonstrate the need to deal
with the full range of threats that we face." More |
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Chiefs Report Transformation
Progress |
| By Jim Garamone
/ American Forces Press Service |
WASHINGTON,
Oct. 25, 2002 — The most important aspect of defense transformation
is encouraging the mindset in personnel that change is an opportunity,
not a threat, America's uniformed service chiefs agreed here
recently.
"Cultivating that mindset
is the role of leadership," said Gen. James Jones, Marine
Corps commandant. He, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper,
Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. John Keane, and Adm. William Fallon,
vice chief of naval operations, appeared Oct. 17 at the 33rd
Fletcher Conference. They talked about their services' transformation
goals and the efforts to meet them. More |
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| TRAIN
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Special Forces soldiers train Georgian soldiers. |
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Since Oct.
7, 2001, 53 Americans have died supporting the war
on terrorism. On the one-year anniversary of the
start of Operation Enduring Freedom, we honor their
sacrifice.
American
Heroes |
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| "CINC"
Is Sunk |
WASHINGTON,
Oct. 25, 2002 — The term "CINC" is sunk.
U.S. Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld put out a memo Oct. 24 to DoD leaders
saying there is only one commander in chief in America
-- the president.
His
memo also forbids use of the acronym "CINC"
(pronounced "sink") with titles for military
officers.
The title
of commander in chief is enshrined in the U.S. Constitution.
Article II, Section 2, states, "The President shall be
Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United
States, and of the Militia of the several States, when
called into the actual Service of the United States."
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82 mm recoilless rifle rounds (File Photo) |
Soldiers
Find Largest
Weapons Cache Yet |
KHOWST,
Afghanistan (Army News Service, Oct. 24, 2002) - It took
soldiers from Company B and a platoon from Company C,
3rd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment two days
and 35 truckloads to move all the ammunition found in
a cache in the Khowst region of Afghanistan.
The cache, found earlier this month in Little Takhtebeg,
was the largest to date. It took the soldiers most of
each day to remove the ammunition to an undisclosed location,
only stopping because it was dark and too risky to move,
according to officials. More |
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Army Maj. Lee Reynolds |
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WASHINGTON
—- "Mr. Met," the orb-headed icon
of the New York Mets baseball team, used to be none
other than an Army Reserve officer.
Maj.
Lee Reynolds recently finished six months duty at
Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the only U.S.
naval base in a communist country. The global war
against terrorism cost Mr. Met the entire 2002 baseball
season.
Even though
the Mets didn't make it to post-season play this
year, Reynolds had mixed feelings about missing
the season as Mr. Met. "I love the job a lot,"
said Reynolds, who worked with Joint Task Force
160, the multiservice outfit responsible for detention
operations at "Gitmo."
"I
love baseball and was looking forward to being Mr.
Met for a fourth year. But, in light of what has
happened in the world, I felt I wanted to do something
to contribute as an American, especially as a New
Yorker. So I did what I really want to do. I was
where I think I should have been."
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| People Can Prevent,
Prepare for Terrorism |
| WASHINGTON
(Army News Service, October 24, 2002) — Many national
and senior Army leaders have said it's not a question
if terrorists will strike again; it's a matter of when
and where. Given that, residents of military bases as
well as civilians can benefit from learning what to do
to help prevent and prepare for terrorist attacks, according
to the Citizencorps Web site, located at www.citizencorps.gov.
Alice Bass of the Army's directorate of Intelligence and
Security recently offered advice on preventing terrorist
attacks: Story |
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