02/29/2000
Shelton Honors Past, Present Military Heroes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 29, 2000 - U.S. Army Gen. Henry Shelton recently honored the nation's military heroes, past and present, during Pentagon Pops 2000, a musical tribute to the American GI.
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02/28/2000
Quality of Life a Core Business Issue
SEATTLE, Feb. 28, 2000 - Quality of life may have been considered a ‘soft’ issue by DoD leadership in the past, but the times they are a changin’.
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02/25/2000
Travel Card Use Mandatory March 1
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2000 - Starting March 1, with some exceptions, DoD personnel must use the government travel card for expenses arising from official travel.
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02/25/2000
GI Joe: Man of the 20th Century
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2000 - "There are millions of people today who owe their freedom to GI Joe," author-historian Stephen E. Ambrose proclaimed during a tribute to "The Hero of the Century -- the American GI."
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02/24/2000
Europeans Contemplate a New Defense Identity
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2000 - “The problem in NATO is not too much America, but too little Europe.” German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping's one-liner last December put in a nutshell the problem Europeans are having building what they call a security and defense identity.
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02/24/2000
'Pentagon Pops' Salutes Military Heroes
WASHINGTON, Feb. 24, 2000 - It was a night for heroes, and they came here, more than 60 strong, wearing blue-ribboned awards of valor -- the Medal of Honor.
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02/23/2000
General Says Minorities Face Many Challenges in 21st Century
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23, 2000 - The military has made great strides for equal opportunity in its ranks, "but we still have some things to do," Air Force Gen. Lester Lyles told the audience during the recent Pentagon observance of National African American History Month.
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02/22/2000
DoD Helps Promote Global Military Reform
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2000 - When it comes to downsizing, the U.S. Defense Department has got it down. Base closures? Been there, done that. Modernizing? Yup -- doing that, too.
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02/22/2000
Women's Health Seminars Take Arlington Memorial Stage
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department's top doctor is the scheduled kickoff speaker of a women's health seminar series beginning noon March 1 at the Women in Military Service for America Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery here.
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02/22/2000
Health Officials Battle Combat Stress
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2000 - DoD is aiming to ensure that the services treat people for stress reactions from combat and other traumatic events.
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02/22/2000
From 'Shell Shock' to 'Combat Stress'
WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2000 - Stress casualties have decimated U.S. fighting forces in all wars this century, but the way we treat them has changed considerably.
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02/22/2000
Top NCOs Push Quality of Life Before Congress
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2000 - Family housing, adequate child care, medical care and fitness centers were among the quality of life initiatives the senior enlisted members of the armed forces want Congress to address in the fiscal 2001 defense budget.
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02/22/2000
Housing Allowance Inequity Remedied
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2000 - Service members who move into areas where the basic allowance for housing rate dropped on Jan. 1 will still be paid at the higher 1999 rate, DoD officials said Feb. 22.
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02/18/2000
U.S. Will Offer Logistics Support to Congo Mission
PRETORIA, Republic of South Africa - Once there is a peace agreement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the United States is willing to provide logistics support for a U.N. peace mission, but it has no plans to contribute ground forces.
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02/18/2000
Mandela Appeals for U.S. Help in Congo
PRETORIA, Republic of South Africa - The more peacemakers in the Congo the better, Nelson Mandela, former president of the Republic of South Africa, recently told Defense Secretary William S. Cohen.
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02/17/2000
Daring Rescues Snatch Pilots from Jaws of Enemy
FORT BELVOIR, Va. - The night of May 2, 1999, was a helluva nightmare for F-16C Fighting Falcon pilot “Hammer 34.” He’d bailed out of his crippled jet fighter and was prone in a pitch-black, thickly wooded area trying to conceal his whereabouts from Serbian troops.
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02/17/2000
DoD Clarifies Exemptions to Anthrax Vaccination Program
WASHINGTON, Feb 17, 2000 - DoD officials are in the process of approving a policy that standardizes exemptions to the anthrax vaccination program. But, they said, they provided exemptions because it’s “good medicine,” not because of any concerns about the vaccine’s safety or efficacy.
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02/17/2000
DoD Officials Disagree With House Report on Anthrax
WASHINGTON - DoD officials today said they had no intention of ending their program of mandatory anthrax vaccinations for service members, despite a House of Representatives panel's recommendation that the program should be suspended.
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02/16/2000
Kosovo Violence Spotlights Need for More Police
CAPE TOWN, Republic of South Africa, Feb. 16, 2000 - Defense Secretary William S. Cohen called on the international community Feb. 16 to double -- even triple -- the number of police in Kosovo following weekend violence in the provincial town of Mitrovica.
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02/14/2000
U.S.-Moroccan Training, Cooperation to Expand
MARRAKECH, Morocco, Feb. 14, 2000 - U.S. troops can expect to see more of their Moroccan counterparts in the future, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen said here Feb. 11.
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02/11/2000
Air Force Rules at 2000 Armed Forces X-C Meet
PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - Air Force runners nailed three individual cross-country titles here Feb. 6 on their way to their second consecutive team crown in the Armed Forces Cross Country Championships.
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02/11/2000
'Ties Yes, U.S. Troops No' in Africa, Cohen Says
MARRAKECH, Morocco, Feb. 11, 2000 - The United States is strengthening ties in Africa, but Defense Secretary William S. Cohen sees no significant role for the U.S. military in settling disputes on the continent.
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02/10/2000
Coast Guard's 'Dr. Master Chief' Calculates Climb to Top
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10, 2000 - In 1972, Vincent W. Patton III had an unrealistic dream for a young black man. He wanted to be master chief of the Coast Guard. But in those days, finding a black face in the Coast Guard was tantamount to finding the proverbial needle in a haystack.
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02/09/2000
World's Largest, Most Modern USO Center Opens Doors
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2000 - More than 250,000 service members and their families are expected to find "a home away from home" annually at the recently opened USO lounge at Baltimore- Washington International Airport.
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02/09/2000
DoD Aids Global Demining Efforts
FORT BELVOIR, Va., Feb. 9, 2000 - Thousands of people worldwide die each year from land mines. Thousands more are maimed.
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02/09/2000
Biological Defenses On the Horizon
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9, 2000 - What if your red blood cells could be armed to fight off disease? What if one vaccine could protect you from a host of biological agents? What if you could purify a canteen of water in minutes?
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02/09/2000
Medic Receives Long-delayed Medal of Honor
WASHINGTON - "This award is not really mine; it's for those who were with me that day," a humble, soft-spoken Alfred Rascon said after President Clinton presented him the Medal of Honor during White House ceremonies Feb. 8.
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02/08/2000
Exercise BALIKATAN Kicks off in Philippines
WASHINGTON - About 2,500 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines will mark a U.S. return to the Philippines this month when they participate in Exercise BALIKATAN 2000 this month.
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02/08/2000
Robertson Calls for Europe to Do More
MUNICH, Germany, Feb. 8, 2000 - The need for more modern, more mobile forces was the first lesson of Kosovo, said NATO Secretary-General George Robertson.
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02/08/2000
Shelton Says DoD Must Live up to Medical Promises
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2000 - Calling the military medical system "not user-friendly," the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said TRICARE "must be fixed and the over- all health-care system must be improved."
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02/08/2000
Fisher Houses to Open in San Antonio, Honolulu, Landstuhl
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2000 - Two more Fisher Houses in the United States and the first one in Germany are scheduled to open by spring 2001 to provide free lodging for out-of-town families visiting family members being treated at military medical centers.
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02/08/2000
NATO Chief Says More Police Vital in Kosovo
WASHINGTON - In the absence of enough international police, U.S. and allied forces in Kosovo are involved in a dangerous, stressful mission, according to NATO's top military commander in Europe.
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02/08/2000
Budget Request Reflects Lessons Learned
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8, 2000 - Based experiences in Kosovo, DoD is asking Congress for more money for precision strike munitions, electronic warfare, and intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.
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02/07/2000
Defense Leaders Commentary: Protecting Our Military
WASHINGTON, DC - Defense Leaders is a feature of the American Forces Press Service. It provides senior DoD leaders with an opportunity to speak directly to military service members, their families and DoD civilians on subjects of current interest.
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02/07/2000
Missile Defense Would Counter Nuclear Blackmail
MUNICH, Germany - The National Missile Defense program would allow the United States to defend against rogue states threatening international blackmail, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen said here Feb. 5.
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02/07/2000
Proposed Defense Budget Attacks Housing, Medical Problems
WASHINGTON - The president's proposed fiscal 2001 defense budget calls for a 3.7 percent military and civilian pay hike, proposes eliminating out-of-pocket off-post housing expenses and aims to fix the military health system.
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02/04/2000
Bosnia Mission Helps Solidify Total Force Integration
WASHINGTON - When a large contingent of the Texas National Guards 49th Armored Division deploys to Bosnia this month to take over for the 10th Mountain Division, it will be anything but just another rotation of troops in and out of that country.
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02/04/2000
Cohen Ties Together European, NATO Proposals
MUNICH, Germany - Defense Secretary William Cohen willDefense Secretary William Cohen will make the case for tying together the European Security and Defense Identity and NATO’s Defense Capabilities Initiative at the annual Wehrkunde Conference here.
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02/03/2000
Sea Service Docs Provide Medical Care to Jordanians
WASHINGTON - Navy doctors and corpsmen used their skills and gained valuable experience in the past 10 days by providing basic medical care to about 600 civilians in several Jordanian villages.
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02/03/2000
Clinton Unveils Vieques Plan, Calls for Vote
WASHINGTON - The people of Vieques, Puerto Rico, will decide the fate of Navy and Marine Corps training on their island, President Clinton announced Feb. 1 in a videotaped address to the people of Puerto Rico.
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02/03/2000
WWW.Huh?: Voting Info Available via Internet
WASHINGTON - You can tell it's an election year, because there's a nonstop media barrage telling which candidates are saying what where. But where do uniformed members find clear-cut information on how to vote in their home districts?
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02/03/2000
Defense Leaders Commentary: No Shortchanging Defense
WASHINGTON, DC - Defense Leaders is a feature of the American Forces Press Service. It provides senior DoD leaders with an opportunity to speak directly to military service members, their families and DoD civilians on subjects of current interest.
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02/02/2000
Stars "Enlist" to Spotlight Military
WASHINGTON - Because films like "Top Gun" attract young people's interest in the military, Defense Secretary William S. Cohen is enlisting Hollywood's star power to promote the armed forces.
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02/02/2000
Cohen Gives Peek at Fiscal 2001 Budget
WASHINGTON - DoD will hit the $60 billion mark in procurement in its coming fiscal 2001 DoD budget request, Defense Secretary William Cohen said Jan. 28 to the Defense Writers Group.
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02/01/2000
Black WAC Joined to Be What She Wanted to Be
WASHINGTON - Catherine L. Bowie watched her three brothers go off to war in 1942 and decided a year later to get into the fight, too. Later, when her brothers went home, she liked the Women's Army Corps and stayed.
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02/01/2000
Shelton Ready to Tackle TRICARE Issues
WASHINGTON - DoD has made huge strides in quality-of-life issues, but healthcare for service members and their families still needs serious work, the nation's top military officer said Jan. 31.
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