Provides the latest RSS feeds for U.S. Military News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Iraq Sun.com http://www.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/187cf2a69985adcf/ en-us Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:51:46 -0400 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 21:51:46 -0400 30 Washington, July 3 : US' top military official has reportedly said that he has all the authority for targeting senior Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders inside Pakistan's tribal areas from across the Afghanistan border. But, he refused to say if the US troops were also allowed to operate inside the Pakistan territory. http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/377872/cs/1/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:00:41 -0400 Iraq Sun.com http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/377872/cs/1/ America's military chief has dampened expectations that the United States is preparing a military attack on Iran. http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/377867/cs/1/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:19:00 -0400 Iraq Sun.com http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/377867/cs/1/ Jun 28, 08 6:59 AM CDT Taliban militants in Afghanistan have regrouped “into a resilient insurgency” that has US allies "losing ground and slipping backwards," a new Pentagon... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15952381/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:59:31 -0400 Newser http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15952381/ The presumptive Democratic Party U.S. presidential nominee, Barack Obama, says he will begin ending U.S. troop involvement in the war in Iraq on his first day in office.Obama told reporters Thursday... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15952707/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:38:15 -0400 VOA http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15952707/ The U.S. military is about to begin construction on a new state-of-the-art medical facility in the Washington, D.C. suburbs. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports President Bush officiated at the official groun... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15952659/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:38:12 -0400 VOA http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15952659/ WASHINGTON - The U.S. military's top officer warned Wednesday that an Israeli airstrike against Iran would make the Middle East more unstable and could add to the stress on overworked American forces ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15953127/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 20:28:22 -0400 Sun-Sentinel http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15953127/ Military officials from the United States, Pakistan and Afghanistan are meeting again this week as part of a joint investigation into a cross-border engagement in June that killed 11 Pakistani soldi... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15954081/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:42:18 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15954081/ 7/3/2008 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- Seldom in our nation's history has this anniversary fallen at so critical and dangerous a time.  Al-Qaida has been beaten back in Iraq, but it is not defeated. ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15952087/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:50:25 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15952087/ 7/3/2008 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFPN) -- As oil prices continue to soar, Air Mobility Command officials here are looking for ways to lower the amount of aviation fuel used by the command's... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15952086/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:50:26 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15952086/ An agreement was signed in February 1903 by Cuban President Estrada Palma and U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt leasing certain land and water areas in Guantanamo Bay for coaling (fueling) and a nav... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15950101/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:22:11 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15950101/ A 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team honor guard prepares to fire a volley Wednesday during a memorial service for Sgt. Ryan James Connolly. http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15950102/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:21:48 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15950102/ 7/3/2008 - SEYMOUR JOHNSON AIR FORCE BASE, N.C. (AFPN) -- An F-15E Strike Eagle pilot from the 4th Fighter Wing here received the American Fighter Aces Association's Francis S. Gabreski Award Jun... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15950693/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:13:22 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15950693/ 7/3/2008 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFPN) -- Since October 2001, more than 48,000 Soldiers, Marines, Sailors and Airmen have been aeromedically evacuated in support of the war on terrorism for both... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15950692/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:13:22 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15950692/ Iraqi firemen respond to a simulated fire on an Iraqi C-130 June 16 at New Al Muthana Air Base, Iraq. The simulation was part of a ground emergency exercise to test the Iraqi's notification and respon... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15949424/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:32:49 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15949424/ 7/3/2008 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations July 2, ac... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15949423/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:32:49 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15949423/ Workers help guide the 9,000-pound Apollo Boilerplate #1206 capsule onto a flatbed truck for transportation to a local refurbishment facility July 1 at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. On loan here to the... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15949422/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:32:48 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15949422/ 7/3/2008 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- We mark the 232nd birthday of our nation this week, and proud citizens across the country will display the American flag throughout the Fourth of July weekend as a cele... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15946495/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:06:32 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15946495/ 7/3/2008 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- Acting Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley directed the delay of the global wing organizational structure implementation July 2. The global wing struct... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15946496/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:06:31 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15946496/ Keith Stansell stands at the top of the cargo ramp of a C-17 Globemaster III, shortly before stepping onto U.S. soil at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, July 2. He was one of three U.S. contractors res... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15944666/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:07:49 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15944666/ 7/2/2008 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Air Education and Training Command officials welcomed their new commander in a change-of-command ceremony July 2 at Randolph Air Force Base. Gen.... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15944664/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:07:48 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15944664/ An AC-130H Spectre gunship from the 16th Special Operations Squadron conducts a flyover at Arlington National Cemetary during a memorial service for Senior Master Sgt. James Caniford May 28. Sergeant ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15944663/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:07:47 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15944663/ Former Secretary of the Air Force Dr. Robert C. Seamans Jr. died June 28 at his home in Beverly, Mass. He was the ninth secretary of the Air Force. (U.S. Air Force photo) http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15944662/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:07:46 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15944662/ 7/2/2008 - ARLINGTON, Va. (AFPN) -- Officials from the Air Force, Army and Navy are now funding a Finnish research program that explores new approaches for improving telecommunications network managem... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15944661/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:07:45 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15944661/ 7/2/2008 - ARLINGTON, Va. (AFPN) -- Approximately 200 California National Guard members were ordered by the state governor July 2 to provide direct ground support to the California Department of Fores... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15944660/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:07:44 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15944660/ Although Army officials acknowledge it's a political non-starter, the Defense Department has resurrected the idea of transporting chemical weapons from Colorado and Oregon to Utah - a practice that ha... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15937723/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:37:22 -0400 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15937723/ For years, the military has insisted that there is no safer way to destroy its chemical weapons than the incineration process used at the Deseret Chemical Depot. But when the Pentagon floated the id... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15937777/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 03:37:20 -0400 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15937777/ WASHINGTON (AP)— The Pentagon's inspector general is resigning after just over a year in the job and at a time when defense spending has skyrocketed but personnel shortfalls in the oversight offi... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15937778/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:38:02 -0400 Deseret News http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15937778/ WASHINGTON -- Most overseas storage sites for U.S. nuclear weapons, particularly in Europe, need substantial improvements in physical security measures and the personnel who guard the weapons, accordi... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15935195/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:59:24 -0400 The China Post http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15935195/ Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, warned Wednesday that an Israeli airstrike on Iran could destabilize the region and lead to political and economic chaos. He made the remarks d... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15935058/ Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:24:26 -0400 People's Daily http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15935058/ The agreement being negotiated would be in effect only one or two years and it would not sanction any permanent U.S. bases, Zebari said at a news conference. "That's why this is not, as it has been... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15931500/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:12:16 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15931500/ US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,113 Currently Viewed 7 days ago - 7 days ago - 8 days ago - 8 days ago - 10 days ago - 13 days ago - 16 days ago - 17 days ago - 21 days ago - http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15931988/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:18:59 -0400 Examiner http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15931988/ WASHINGTON - The Pentagon's inspector general is resigning after just over a year in the job and at a time when defense spending has skyrocketed but personnel shortfalls in the oversight office have s... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15933969/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 22:16:09 -0400 MSNBC http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15933969/ A new sign inside the main gate at Misawa Air Base, Japan, posts more information about incidents involving driving under the influence of alcohol, including the consequences of such behavior. Misawa ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15932365/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:18:46 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15932365/ Han Chang-kweon, chairman of the Association of North Korean Defector Organizations, describes escaping North Korea in 1992. Han is one of approximately 13,500 defectors living in South Korea. http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15932364/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:18:36 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15932364/ Military trainers at Guantanamo Bay based an entire interrogation class on a chart of "coercive management techniques" copied from a decades old report on methods used to obtain confessions, many of... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15932363/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:18:22 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15932363/ The U.S. Navy on Wednesday completed an unprecedented simulated ballistic missile exercise between ships operating in different bodies of water, Navy officials said. The five-day exercise, which st... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15932362/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 21:18:21 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15932362/ Location: Trumpington Road, Cambridge CB2 2AJ. The nine-hole, par-3 golf course is off of Trumpington Road, about a mile south of the city center and two miles from junction 11 of the M11 motorway. ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15929559/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:28:13 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15929559/ The female competitors at Ultrabodies IX flex their muscles at the show Saturday at RAF Mildenhall, which drew a crowd of 200 and was judged by professional bodybuilders from the British Natural Bodyb... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15929558/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:28:08 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15929558/ Lingering hip problems are forcing a 9-year-old military working dog named Whiskey to retire later this summer. The German shepherd currently chills out at the 48th Security Forces Squadron kennel ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15929561/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:28:06 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15929561/ Former faculty members and alumni walk past abandoned classrooms in the vacant campus of London Central High School. Memories resurfaced as the small group toured the campus last week. http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15929560/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:28:02 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15929560/ (Updates with Mullen comment on Straight of Hormuz) WASHINGTON (AFP)--Opening up a third front would be "extremely stressful" for the U.S. military, a top U.S. military chief said Wednesday amid con... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15924743/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:02:03 -0400 Smart Money http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15924743/ Acting Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley held a town-hall style meeting with members of the Air Force Space Command July 1 at Peterson Air Force Base, Colo. In his first visit to an Air For... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15927712/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:41:17 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15927712/ 7/2/2008 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations July 1, ac... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15927714/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:41:16 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15927714/ An Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would be a high-risk move that could destabilize the Middle East, the top U.S. military officer said Wednesday.At a Defense Department news conference, ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15924747/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:22:49 -0400 Haaretz http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15924747/ Posted on: Wednesday, 2 July 2008, 12:00 CDT Comtech Telecommunications has announced that its subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom has received orders totaling $5.6 million under its Movement Tracking... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15925117/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:45:56 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15925117/ How heartbreaking - this young man died for the country he loved so much - and not yet being awarded his citizenship. I hope that he will be allowed that privelege posthumously... For hes service, for... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15927697/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:47:38 -0400 MSNBC http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15927697/ 7/2/2008 - WASHINGTON (AFPN) -- As the Air Force transitions from the legacy battle dress to the modern airman battle uniform, questions and concerns are bound to come up, said the head of Air Force u... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15927713/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:41:16 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15927713/ 7/2/2008 - TINKER AIR FORCE BASE, Okla. (AFPN) -- Air Force and civilian industry leaders spoke about convergence between industry and aerospace at the seventh annual Aerospace Summit and Expo June 23... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15927715/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:41:15 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15927715/ An MQ-9 Reaper sits on the flightline at Creech Air Force Base, Nev. June 19. The Reaper is capable of carrying both precision-guided bombs and air-to-ground missiles. Gen. John D.W. Corley, Air Comba... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15927716/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:41:14 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15927716/ An Israeli strike on Iranian nuclear facilities would be a high-risk move that could destabilize the Middle East, the Pentagon's top military officer said Wednesday. At a Defense Department pres... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15921509/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:31:28 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15921509/ 7/2/2008 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Vince Fonner walks into the newly constructed operations center at the Air Force Personnel Center here to check on a couple of new high-resolution m... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15923398/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:23:39 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15923398/ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. military officer said on Wednesday he favored more dialogue with Tehran to avoid a confrontation as a senior Iranian leader indicated his country was open to negoti... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15921539/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:43:25 -0400 Reuters http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15921539/ 7/2/2008 - SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. (AFPN) -- Air Force officials recently proposed a plan to develop its enlisted and officer corps into Airmen who specialize in establishing, controlling and ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15923396/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:23:38 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15923396/ 3,000 gallons of fire retardant is deployed over the Airmen of the 302nd Air Expeditionary Group operating out of McClellan Airfield in Sacramento, Calif., and are flyingC-130 Hercules aircraft that c... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15923395/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 13:23:38 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15923395/ ivan@caribbeannetnews.com PARAMARIBO, Suriname: Medical personnel and engineers from the US Southern Command launched a three-month humanitarian mission in Suriname on Monday in which locals in rural ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15917626/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:12:03 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15917626/ ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. Navy and its Gulf allies will not allow Iran to seal off the strategic Strait of Hormuz, the commander of American naval forces in the Persian Gulf... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15917542/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:44:43 -0400 USA Today http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15917542/ WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has revised its policy for recruits who must get waivers for past bad behavior, but officials stopped short of eliminating waiver requirements for petty crimes, T... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15917854/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:18:17 -0400 New Jersey Online http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15917854/ Soldiers from Company B, 1st Battalion, 502d Infantry Regiment patrol through the early morning streets of Shula on the way to the site of a supposed weapons cache. Commanders say such tips have start... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15918287/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:08:50 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15918287/ ') The announcement comes one day after Elbit Systems completed its acquisition of Tadiran Communications. The T-45 will replace aging T-39s as a key element in the US Navy's Undergraduate Military Fl... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15913544/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:14:15 -0400 Globes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15913544/ By ROBERT BURNS AND FOSTER KLUGASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon said Tuesday that Lithuania would be a "good alternative" to Poland as the site for a U.S. missile defense base if... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15914353/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:36:42 -0400 Seattle Post-Intelligencer http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15914353/ PENTAGON (AP) - It may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Pentagon intelligence gathering. This has little to do with bombs and missiles, but everything to do with whether fo... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15913738/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:14:47 -0400 WISH TV8 http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15913738/ contract solicitation posted a week ago says that the Army is looking for a contractor to keep an eye on the Internet for possible threats to U.S. interests and forces. http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15913774/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:10:48 -0400 TechWeb http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15913774/ MANILA, Philippines -- The United States military has agreed to try before its court an American soldier accused of raping a Filipina in Okinawa, Japan, an official of the Department of Foreign Affair... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15913611/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:58:14 -0400 Inquirer http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15913611/ WASHINGTON -- A new report by Army historians levels tough, candid criticism against Pentagon leadership for its failure to plan beyond the initial invasion of Iraq. "On Point II: Transition to the Ne... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15913767/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:58:03 -0400 Inquirer http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15913767/ ) July 2, 2008 -- Decisive Analytics Corporation (DAC) announced today that it has been selected by the US Air Force to develop new technologies for identifying terror networks. This asymmetric threat... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15914354/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:43:07 -0400 PR Web http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15914354/ WASHINGTON (AP) ― The Pentagon will buy and operate one or two commercial imagery satellites and plans to design and build another with more sophisticated spying capabilities, according to gov... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15911729/ Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:36:30 -0400 UPN 31 http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15911729/ WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has revised its policy for recruits who must get waivers for past bad behavior, but officials stopped short of eliminating waiver requirements for petty crimes, The Associate... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15906816/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:23:31 -0400 MSNBC http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15906816/ Most U.S. troops in mainland Japan and Okinawa saw a dip in their paycheck July 1 as the cost-of-living allowance dropped throughout the country. In two weeks, COLA has fallen either four or two poi... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15907035/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:16:43 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15907035/ MIAMI -- The Pentagon announced Monday it would seek the death penalty against a Saudi Arabian accused of plotting the October 2000 terrorist attack on the destroyer Cole that killed 17 U.S. sailors.... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15902892/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:28:59 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15902892/ A Delta 4 rocket sends a spy satellite skyward from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on a classified mission in June 2006. Officials say the Pentagon intends to send up additional spy satellite... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15902323/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:42:11 -0400 MSNBC http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15902323/ Army Cpl. Joseph Browning, assigned to 2nd Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, honors Capt. Gregory Dalessio and Pfc. Bryan Thomas during a memorial ceremony Tuesday at a chapel in Baumholder. Browning,... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15903326/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:35:42 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15903326/ Tech. Sgt. Christopher Conaway weighs Matt Mobley June 23 at the recruiting office in Summerville, S.C. Mr. Mobley weighed 253 pounds when he started the process of joining the Air Force and lost near... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15905470/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:27:58 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15905470/ Once upon a time, the Heidelberg princes bought a small palace to use as a hunting lodge. It proved a wise investment. The palace housed many nobles over the centuries, including the mistress of on... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15900109/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:26:23 -0400 Stars and Stripes http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15900109/ 7/1/2008 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- If an Air Force civilian employee is injured on the job, time can be vitally important in getting that injury treated. One of the best solutions ... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901233/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:17:48 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901233/ A basic cadet is welcomed to the Core Values Ramp after exiting a bus during inprocessing as the Class of 2012 .June 26 at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Colo. Inprocesing marks the start of 38 days of B... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901234/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:17:48 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901234/ 7/1/2008 - LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- National Security Agency officials recently selected the 13th Intelligence Squadron here as the Air Force winner of the 2007 Director's Trophy, awar... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901236/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:17:49 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901236/ 7/1/2008 - RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- The deputy assistant secretary for budget received the 2007 Eugene M. Zuckert Management Award during a ceremony recently at the Pentagon.... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901237/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:17:49 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901237/ U.S. Air Force Academy record-holder Dana Pounds placed second in the javelin throw in the finals of the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials June 30 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Ore. (U.S. Air Force photo) http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901238/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:17:48 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901238/ 7/1/2008 - HICKAM AIR FORCE BASE, Hawaii (AFPN) -- Sixty years have passed since the Air Force set out to deliver hope to Berlin -- a city of 2.5 million citizens -- blockaded by the So... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901235/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:17:49 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901235/ 7/1/2008 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations June 30, a... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901239/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:17:47 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901239/ Maj. Paul Carlton straps himself into an F-2 Typhoon June 16 at Royal Air Force Coningsby, England. Major Carlton is an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot on an exchange program. (Courtesy photo) http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901240/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:17:47 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15901240/ NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the wake of the National Basketball Association's Tim Donaghy gambling scandal, the league Tuesday named retired U.S. Army Major General Ronald Johnson to a newly created posit... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15899900/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:11:17 -0400 Reuters http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15899900/ July 1, 2008 · The Defense Department is the government's largest consumer of petroleum products, like gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.And if it costs $100 to fill up an SUV, just imagine what it... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15895028/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:09:30 -0400 NPR http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15895028/ 7/1/2008 - SAN ANTONIO (AFPN) -- In the latest issue of Airman magazine, Airmen who maintain the twin-tailed A-10 Thunderbolt II in Afghanistan know their gun-toting jets spread fear among insurgents.... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15898173/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:32:02 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15898173/ Matt Poirier mans the controls of a T-6A Texan II flight simulator during a June 27 tour of Randolph Air Force Base, Texas, June 27. Mr. Poirer, a wounded war veteran, and 12 other wounded warfighters... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15898172/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:32:01 -0400 Air Force Link http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15898172/ In the first case to review the U.S. government's secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accusations against a Chinese man held fo... http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15890792/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:49:19 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.iraqsun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/187cf2a69985adcf/id/15890792/