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U.S. Army Capt. John Gerald of the 431st Civil Affairs Battalion attached
to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and his Interpretor walk down the
street to their vehicles with their new friend Dianne in Mosul, Iraq, Aug. 14,
2003. U.S. Army photo by Pvt. Daniel D Meacham |
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| Defense Officials Sign Contract For Pentagon 9-11
Memorial |
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2003
Another milestone in the Pentagon Memorial project, which will honor the 184
lives lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack, was reached today as military
officials signed a contract to construct the memorial.
"This is a big day for us all," said Michael Sullivan,
Pentagon Renovation Program manager, as he introduced the individuals who would
sign the contract." We've been waiting for this moment. We're ready to move
forward now. This is a team effort and will remain a team effort until the day
we dedicate the memorial."
Rosemary
Dillard, who spoke on behalf of the family members, agreed. "This means an
awful lot to us," added Dillard, who serves as vice president, Pentagon
Memorial Fund, Inc. "To be teamed up with PENREN has been so exciting. They've
made sure that this is a team effort."
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| PRESIDENT BUSH |
| Terrorists 'Are Meeting the Fate They Chose for
Themselves' |
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Gerry J. Gilmore / American Forces Press Service |
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, 2003 The Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on America
inaugurated the first conflict of the new century, President George Bush told
U.S. sailors and Marines at a southern California military base today.
The 9-11 assaults - which killed thousands
of innocent American citizens - awakened the country "to new dangers," Bush
said during his visit to the Marine Corps Air Station at Miramar, Calif. On
that day, he said "threats that had gathered far across the world appeared
suddenly in our own cities."
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| President George W.
Bush |
| "Before you went in, Iraqis were an oppressed people, and
the dictator threatened his neighbors, the Middle East and the world. Today,
the Iraqis are liberated people, the former regime is gone, and our nation and
the world is more secure. " |
Remarks
at Marine Corps Air Station
Miramar,
Calif., Aug. 14, 2003 |
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Air Force Works to
Demobilize Guard,
Reserves |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, 2003 (AFPN) The
Air Force is working to return the nearly 28,000 mobilized Guard and Reserve
airmen to their families and civilian jobs as quickly as possible, according to
the services senior manpower official.
There are
a full range of initiatives that were undertaking to accomplish the mission
without mobilized Air Reserve Component airmen, said Michael L. Dominguez,
assistant secretary of the Air Force for manpower and reserve affairs at the
Pentagon.
Our goal is to return them to
their citizen-airmen status and let them go back home to their families and
their civilian careers, Dominguez said.
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DoD Identifies
Army Casualty |
| WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2003 Defense
officials today announced that Sgt. Steven W. White, 29, of Lawton, Okla., was
killed on August 13 in Tikrit, Iraq. White died of injuries sustained when his
M113 armored personnel carrier hit an antitank mine. White was assigned to
Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 4th Battalion, 42nd Field Artillery
Regiment, based at Fort Hood, Texas. |
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| Army Provides Temporary Homes For Displaced Iraqi
Families |
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| By U.S. Army
Spc. Ryan Smith / 372nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment |
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 BAGHDAD, Iraq, Aug. 15, 2003 In a dusty
corner of east Baghdad there is a community of families living in an old Iraqi
military complex. The buildings in the compound are less like family housing
and more like warehouses and offices. Its nothing new since coalition forces
entered the city, soldiers have found that there are thousands of squatters
living in abandoned government buildings all over town.
However, the people living at this compound had
been encouraged to move there many had already been evicted from other
government buildings, such as schools, fire departments, police stations and
other government facilities that are now needed by the new Iraqi government.
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| Assistant Commander Addresses Fuel, Water, Power
Concerns |
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| By U.S. Army
Staff Sgt. Mark Swart / 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) |
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MOSUL, Iraq The
second-in-command of Coalition Forces in Northern Iraq spoke to members of the
local media, Aug. 14 at Mosul City Hall about the ongoing struggle to restore
power, water and various fuels to Northern Iraq.
Brig. Gen. Frank Helmick, 101st Airborne
Division assistant division commander of operations, said that the power
situation "isn't just a problem in the Ninevah province, it's a problem in the
whole country."
A number of solutions are
in the works for the power situation, along with a schedule for routine power
outages. Power will remain on at all times in certain critical locations, such
as hospitals, water pump plants and water treatment plants.
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| Army Reserve Soldiers Help With Iraqi Food
Distribution System |
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| By U.S. Army
Sgt. Mark S. Rickert / 372nd Mobile Public Affairs Detachment |
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 BAGHDAD, Iraq The Iraqi food distribution
system started in the early 1990s after the first Gulf War ended. With the help
of the World Food Program in 1996 to help monitor the process, the system
proved effective, feeding nearly 60 percent of Iraq's population. The rest of
the population had no need to participate with the program the wealthy could
buy their own food, and the farmers grew their own.
Recent combat operations, however, nearly
derailed the food distribution system. Conflicts disrupted the flow of food,
money, and imports, and suddenly more people were depending on the food
distribution system. The system needed immediate action, or a lot of people
were going to be hungry.
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| Kenyan Military Forces Train with U.S. Horn of Africa
Task Force |
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| By U.S.
Marine Sgt. Bradly Shaver |
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NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug. 13,2003
Combined Joint Task Force Horn of Africa personnel instructed Kenyan Army and
Air Force military during the Africa Contingency Operations Training and
Assistance (ACOTA) program at Embakasi, a Kenyan airbase in Nairobi, from July
21 Aug. 15.
The ACOTA program provides
training in peacekeeping operations and regular military tactics to military
units from selected countries in Africa. CJTF-HOA defines the Horn of Africa
region as the total airspace and land areas of Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea,
Djibouti, Yemen and Ethiopia and the coastal waters of the Red Sea, Gulf of
Aden and Indian Ocean.
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Medevac Mission |
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U.S. Air Force Maj. Peggy Leon, 320th Expeditionary
Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, medical crew director, prepares to check a
patient's blood pressure in a C-130 during a mission over Iraq . The 320th is
responsible for the care and transport of patients throughout Afghanistan,
Iraq, and all other parts of Southwest Asia.
U.S. Air Force photo by
Staff Sgt Lee A Osberry Jr. |
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Powell Says Terrorist Arrests
Illustrate
U.S., Russian Cooperation
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State Dept. Washington File |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, 2003 The
arrests that took place August 12 in New York to stop an arms dealer from
selling shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles to potential terrorists in the
United States illustrates the significant cooperation between U.S. and Russia
intelligence agencies working to end this kind of arms trafficking, says
Secretary of State Colin Powell.
"Small arms,
surface-to-air missiles all of these in the hands of terrorists put us all at
risk," Powell said in an interview with the Univision Television Network August
13. "And, to think that there would be people in the world that would traffic
in a surface-to-air missile that would go up in the sky and hit [a] ... plane
full of innocent people as an act of terror is disgraceful to contemplate, but
there are such people."
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Bush Announces
Capture of Terrorist
Suspect
By Wendy Ross / Washington
File White House Correspondent |
Washington, Aug. 14, 2003 A chief
suspect in major terrorist operations in Southeast Asia has been captured,
President Bush announced August 14.
"In the last
few days, we captured a major terrorist named Hambali," Bush told U.S. military
personnel and their families in an event at a Marine Corps air station in
California.
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| U.N. Welcomes Iraqi Governing Council |
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| By Judy Aita
/ Washington File United Nations Correspondent |
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United Nations, New York The
U.N. Security Council August 14 established a "U.N. Assistance Mission for
Iraq" and welcomed the establishment of the Governing Council of Iraq.
The council adopted a resolution setting up the
mission by a vote of 14 to 0 with Syria abstaining. The resolution was
co-sponsored by the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Bulgaria, Guinea,
Chile, and Angola.
U.S. Ambassador John
Negroponte said that the council's support for the Governing Council of Iraq
"hastens the day when the people of Iraq are in full command of their own
affairs a condition they have not known for some three decades."
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| Rumsfeld: Anti-Terror War Drives Defense Dept.
Transformation Efforts |
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Gilmore / American Forces Press Service |
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, 2003 The ongoing war against global terrorism makes U.S.
military transformation efforts an imperative goal, DoD's top civilian and
uniformed officer said here today.
Accompanied by Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld opened a Pentagon town hall meeting
by thanking service members and civil servants both here and around the globe
for their "remarkable" efforts since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on
the United States.
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| America Pays Tribute to the
Troops |
| Support the Troops Rally |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15, 2003 Victorious
America, an organization dedicated to keeping America free from fear and
terrorism, is hosting a Support the Troops Rally, here Aug. 17.
The rally is scheduled to begin at 11 a.m. with a
march along Constitution Avenue to the Lincoln Memorial where a ceremony
honoring Americas war heroes will be held.
"The
theme of this rally is for America's victory over global tyranny and terrorism,
and to honor all our troops and their families who are prepared to make the
ultimate sacrifice for freedom," said Stanley Zir, president of Victorious
America in a press release.
"Now is the
time to show the rest of the world our unwavering support for our troops' noble
quest to secure liberty for the people of Iraq. This act of support will
demoralize and defeat those who would continue to put our troops and the rest
of the free world in harm's way," he concluded.
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more information on the rally, click here |
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Spears, Aerosmith to
Headline Sept. 4 Concert |
WASHINGTON, Aug. 14, 2003 On Sept. 4,
another a unique event will take place on the National Mall to help kick off
the NFL's 2003 season and salute America's military members.
Mary J. Blige, Britney Spears, Aerosmith and other
performers, joined by thousands of American military personnel, will perform
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