 Top general: Don't shift war aims in Afghanistan
 02.10.2009 7:49  27 wyświetleń  0 komentarzy
Tags: President, House, While, Taliban, White House, Biden, View, After, McChrystal, London, Pentagon, LONDON
LONDON -- The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, used a London speech yesterday to reject calls for the war effort to be scaled down from defeating the Taliban insurgency to a narrower focus on hunting down al-Qaida, an option suggested by Vice President Joseph R. Biden as part of the current White House strategy review. After his first 100 days in command in Kabul, Gen. McChrystal chose an audience of military specialists at London's Institute for Strategic Studies as a platform for a public airing of the confidential assessment of the war he delivered to the Pentagon last month, parts...
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| Northrop Grumman gets US$3.8B US Air Force deal
02.10.2009 4:42 25 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: Forum, Pentagon, Air Force
WASHINGTON: Northrop Grumman Corp. beat out rival Boeing Co. for a US$3.8 billion deal to provide logistics services for the KC-10, a fleet of aerial refueling tankers, the Pentagon said late Thursday. U.S. plane maker Boeing, based in Chicago, builds the KC-10 and currently...
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Northrop Grumman tops Boeing for contract to service Air Force tankers
01.10.2009 23:02 26 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: Forum, CHICAGO, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, TRIBUNE, Pentagon, Business, Air Force
CHICAGO TRIBUNE , Business - Northrop Grumman Corp. beat out rival Boeing Co. for a $3.8 billion deal to provide logistics services for the KC-10, a fleet of aerial refueling tankers, the Pentagon said Thursday.
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| Army reports first death from swine flu complications; soldier fell ill in SC basic training
01.10.2009 20:57 21 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: Department, Arts, Four, Hold, Defense, Pentagon
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A 23-year-old soldier from who was in basic training is 's first death from complications of , officials said Thursday. The death at Fort Jackson, the Army's largest training camp and just outside Columbia, may be the first such loss among the nation's 1.4 million men and women in uniform. Pentagon officials said they were trying Thursday morning to confirm details of the case. But as of late last week, Department of Defense spokesmen said no military deaths had been recorded since the broke out last spring. Spc. Christopher Hogg of , Fla., died Sept. 10th from...
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| Army: FL recruit death in SC is swine-flu related
01.10.2009 19:55 35 wyświetleń 0 komentarzy
Tags: Jackson, South, Florida, Arts, Four, Hold, Carolina, South Carolina, Associated, Pres, Associated Press, The Associated, H1N1, Officials, Pentagon
SUSANNE M. SCHAFER The Associated Press COLUMBIA, S.C. - The Army says an autopsy shows a soldier from Florida who died while at Fort Jackson in South Carolina passed away from pneumonia caused by the H1N1 flu virus. Fort Jackson officials said Thursday the death of 23-year-old Spc. Christopher Hogg of Deltona, Fla., is the first such death at the Army's largest basic training site. Pentagon officials say they're trying to confirm details of the case. Hogg died a week after he was taken to a the hospital with fever and respiratory problems. He was in his fifth week of basic training and would have graduated Oct. 15. Officials said as of Wednesday, 51 of the Fort Jackson's 13,000 soldiers had...
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