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03/31/2003
More than 100,000 Coalition Troops in Iraq
WASHINGTON - More than 300,000 coalition troops are deployed in support of combat operations, with more than a third of those inside Iraq, defense officials said today.
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03/31/2003
Coalition Bringing All Powers to Bear on Iraq
WASHINGTON - Coalition forces are bringing all powers to bear on the Iraqi regime, Army Brig. Gen. Vincent Brooks, vice director of operations for U.S. Central Command said today during a briefing in Qatar.
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03/29/2003
U.S. Troops' Remains Found Near Nasiriyah
WASHINGTON - The remains of American troops have been discovered in southern Iraq near where paramilitary forces loyal to Saddam Hussein have been accused by the Pentagon of executing U.S. service members after they'd surrendered.
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03/28/2003
Programs Support Troops, Help Military Families
WASHINGTON - Press reports about the American public sending thousands of e-mails in support of troops are only partly correct, according to Navy Cmdr. Rudolph "Rudy" Brewington.
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03/28/2003
New York Firemen, USS Nassau Sailor Form Bond
WASHINGTON - In the spring of 2001, Vince Farrell was en route home from Boston when he heard on his car radio that his former high school in Brooklyn, N.Y., was having its 29th reunion. He decided to attend.
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03/28/2003
82nd Airborne Launches Operation Near Bagram
WASHINGTON - Coalition forces in Afghanistan launched another battalion-sized operation March 27, this time in the Kohe Safi Mountains near Bagram Air Base, Combined Joint Task Force180 officials said.
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03/27/2003
Myers Speaks to Arab World via Al Jazeera
WASHINGTON - The United States has absolutely no desire to stay in Iraq any longer than necessary, the U.S. military's senior officer told the Arab world today.
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03/27/2003
Pentagon and Homeland Security Chiefs Talk Money With Congress
WASHINGTON - Justifying the president's request for $75 billion in emergency funding for the cost of war in Iraq and the global war on terrorism, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told House and Senate Appropriations Committees today that "whatever the cost, it is worth it."
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03/26/2003
DoD Provides Teens on the Move With Online Help
WASHINGTON - Moving to a new school. Making new friends. Those are just a few of the stressors that plague teenagers and children of military families more often than their civilian peers.
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03/26/2003
Guard Flexes Muscle in the War Against Terrorism
ARLINGTON, Va. - More than 141,000 members of the Army and Air National Guard were mobilized, placed on alert or identified for possible mobilization by March 24, five days after Operation Iraqi Freedom began, National Guard Bureau officials have reported.
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03/25/2003
U.S., Aid Agencies Ready to Assist Impoverished Iraqis
WASHINGTON - United States and international relief workers are poised to enter the Umm Qasr port to address acute shortages of public drinking water and unsafe sanitary conditions in southern Iraq, particularly in the city of Basra to the northwest.
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03/25/2003
405th Commanders, Bomber Pilots Talk War's Optempo
WASHINGTON - Right now, deployed at an undisclosed location, the 405th Air Expeditionary Wing is in what Col. James Kowalski calls "surge operations." That means that all the unit's aircraft, primarily B-1 bombers, are flying at rates higher than what would normally be planned in time of war.
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03/25/2003
Escalating 'Sensor War' Is the Face of Future Conflict
WASHINGTON - Military commanders of the future will employ high-tech sensing equipment to detect the strength and positions of enemy forces, including those attempting to hide from prying electronic "eyes."
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03/25/2003
CENTCOM Charts Operation Iraqi Freedom Progress
WASHINGTON - All of Iraq is a battlefield and coalition forces are challenging the heart of Iraqi resistance around Baghdad, Air Force Maj. Gen. Victor Renuart said today in Qatar.
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03/24/2003
DefendAmerica Speakers Keep the Public Informed
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department is committed to keeping the American people informed and involved in the global war against terrorism, according to Brent Krueger, public liaison director in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs.
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03/23/2003
Battle Intensifies Around Nasiriyah
WASHINGTON - Today was a tough day for American forces in Iraq, but coalition forces still made good progress on the ground, air and sea, said Army Lt. Gen. John Abizaid, deputy commander of the Combined Forces Command.
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03/23/2003
12 Americans Missing Following Ambush
WASHINGTON - Twelve American soldiers are unaccounted for following actions around the Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, U.S. Central Command officials said today.
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03/22/2003
Franks: Iraq Campaign Is 'Unlike Any Other in History'
WASHINGTON - U.S. and coalition forces will liberate Iraq, end Saddam Hussein's regime and find and confiscate the dictator's weapons of mass destruction, Operation Iraqi Freedom's senior military commander said today.
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03/21/2003
DoD Hosts Women's History Month Observance at Women's Memorial
ARLINGTON, Va. - Since the Revolutionary War, women's military participation has evolved from exclusion, to traditional jobs such as clerical and nurses, and to nontraditional occupations such as fighter pilot or astronaut, according to Charles S. Abell.
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03/21/2003
More Money Coming Coast Guard's Way for Homeland Security
WASHINGTON - Before testifying before the House Subcommittee on Appropriations March 20, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said, "our thoughts and prayers are with the men and women overseas fighting in the latest front in the global war on terrorism to protect all Americans and make the world a safer place."
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03/21/2003
DoD Leaders Urge Iraqis to Surrender
WASHINGTON - Over the past month, coalition aircraft have dropped more than 15 million leaflets over Iraq urging soldiers not to fight and telling civilians how to protect themselves.
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03/21/2003
Myers Charts Coalition Military Actions to Date
WASHINGTON - American ground forces are 100 miles inside Iraq and driving on Baghdad, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Richard Myers said today during a Pentagon news conference.
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03/21/2003
Pentagon Seeks Clarity in Environmental Laws Affecting Ranges
WASHINGTON - At Fort Stewart, Ga., home of the 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), heavy tanks coexist with endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers. The San Clemente Island Range complex in California is home to the even more endangered San Clemente Island loggerhead shrike -- and a Navy ship-to-shore live-fire range.
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03/21/2003
Ground War Kicks Off; Helicopter Crash in Kuwait Kills 16
WASHINGTON - A Marine helicopter crash is believed to have killed at least 16 coalition troops in northern Kuwait just hours before a major ground offensive kicked off in the Persian Gulf. Defense Department officials confirmed the Army's 3rd Infantry Division rolled into southern Iraq late March 20.
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03/20/2003
Saddam's Days Numbered, Rumsfeld Says
WASHINGTON - U.S. Central Command exercised "flexibility" in attacking a senior Iraqi leadership compound last night, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today.
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03/19/2003
Homeland Defense Chief Speaks of New Responsibilities
WASHINGTON - The symbolism couldn't be better: The new Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense is located in the section of the Pentagon destroyed in the terrorist attack of Sept. 11, 2001.
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03/19/2003
Info Technicians Must Be Mindful of Web Site Content
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military uses the Internet as an electronic conduit to quickly disseminate information. From a security perspective, however, stretches of that worldwide information highway contain potholes.
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03/19/2003
Coalition Aircraft 'Paper' Iraq With Leaflets
WASHINGTON - With President Bush's deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq fast approaching, coalition aircraft dropped almost 2 million leaflets over Iraq March 19, U.S. Central Command officials said.
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03/19/2003
Technology, Doctrine Changes Allow for Better Bombing Runs
WASHINGTON - In the first 24 hours of Operation Desert Storm in 1991, coalition military aircraft "struck more targets than were struck in all of 1942 and 1943 by 8th Air Force during the Combined Bomber Offensive," an Air Force officer said in the Pentagon today.
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03/18/2003
Alaskan Scouts Guard Anchorage Airfield
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - An Alaska Army National Guard infantry scout who has more heart than body has proven to himself and his older brother that he has what it takes to help keep America safe from terrorists and anyone else who would do it harm.
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03/18/2003
Pentagon Plans Heavy Investment in UAV Development
WASHINGTON - The Defense Department today unveiled a billion dollar roadmap for unmanned aerial vehicles during the next 25 years. Plans call for developing joint interoperable UAVs that are capable of everything from surveillance to air strike.
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03/17/2003
Powell Accuses Iraq of Playing Games with U.N. and U.S.
WASHINGTON - Iraq is playing the United Nations and some of America's friends on the Security Council like a fiddle, Secretary of State Colin Powell said during a March 16 appearance on ABC News' This Week show.
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03/14/2003
Art Contest Winners Show Patriotism, Love of Family
ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Three winners announced today in the 2003 Armed Services YMCA Art Contest weaved flags into their drawings of their military families, while a fourth drew an American bald eagle as her centerpiece.
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03/14/2003
Pentagon Officials Say Depleted Uranium Powerful, Safe
WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials showed pictures today from the 1991 Gulf War of an Iraqi tank completely destroyed by a 105 mm round made of depleted uranium. The round had pierced the tank's thick armor, leaving only a burned out shell.
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03/13/2003
U.S. Iraq Policy Developed Over Two Administrations
WASHINGTON - U.S. policy toward Iraq has been shaped by a dozen years of defiance by Saddam Hussein and at least two presidential administrations, Secretary of State Colin Powell explained to some members of Congress today.
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03/12/2003
"Gift of Groceries" Can Help Military Families
FORT LEE, Va. - Deployments are on the rise, Guard and Reserve personnel are being activated by the thousands, and the upheaval in the lives of military families can involve economic needs as well as emotional.
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03/12/2003
New Film, 'Above & Beyond,' Heralds Women's Centennial in Aviation
ARLINGTON, Va. - The Women's Memorial theater was packed with aging women pilot pioneers from World War II and their current-day counterparts for a private screening and reception for the film "Above & Beyond: 100 Years of Women in Aviation" here March 10.
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03/11/2003
Homeland Security Money Goes to State, Local Communities
WASHINGTON - With the Department of Homeland Security now a reality, resources are being provided to the state and local partners that assist the organization in safeguarding America, Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said here today.
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03/11/2003
DoD, USAID Teams Readying to Rebuild Iraq, Provide Assistance
WASHINGTON - "Free Iraqis" who have lived in the United States and other democratic countries will provide valuable liaison between local Iraqi government officials and U.S. officials overseeing the country after any potential conflict.
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03/11/2003
DeCA Announces Best Commissary Winners for 2002
FORT LEE, Va. - In one of the closest competitions ever, five commissaries instead of the usual four have been named winners of the Defense Commissary Agency's 2003 Best Commissary awards.
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03/11/2003
Northern Watch Flies Top Cover for U.S. Envoy in Northern Iraq
INCIRLIK AIR BASE, TURKEY - What started out as a request for 48 hours of combat air patrols turned into six days of practically nonstop flying as Operation Northern Watch kept skies clear while a U.S. envoy met with Iraqi opposition leaders in northern Iraq.
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03/11/2003
Rumsfeld: Defense Department Stands Ready for Action
WASHINGTON - Saddam Hussein is "an accomplished deceiver" who will stop at nothing to "deceive the world and his own people," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in his Pentagon briefing today.
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03/10/2003
National Communications System Joins Homeland Security Department
ARLINGTON, Va. - After a nearly 40-year relationship with the Department of Defense, the National Communications System became part of the Department of Homeland Security March 5 during ceremonies at the Defense Information System Agency's Skyline 7 auditorium here.
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03/10/2003
Coalition Strikes Targets, Drops Leaflets
WASHINGTON - Coalition aircraft have conducted a series of strikes in the Southern No-fly Zone since March 8, U.S. Central Command officials said today.
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03/07/2003
Iraqi Cooperation Improved, Blix, ElBaradei Say
WASHINGTON - Iraq has improved cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors, but questions remain, the two men in charge of inspections reported to the U.N. Security Council today.
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03/07/2003
Stars and Stripes to Deliver Personal Messages From Home
WASHINGTON - U.S. troops deployed to the Persian Gulf region and other overseas locations will soon receive personal messages from family members, friends, neighbors, colleagues and supporters via the pages of Stars and Stripes.
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03/06/2003
Rumsfeld: DoD Transformation Still on Track
WASHINGTON - The Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks on the United States underscored DoD's need to transform to meet the challenges of the 21st century, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today.
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03/05/2003
Marine Describes Chemical, Biological Defenses
WASHINGTON - The U.S. military will be able to function in a chemical and biological warfare environment, a Marine specialist told The Chris Core Show on ABC radio March 4.
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03/04/2003
Stars and Stripes Carrying the News Where The Action Is
WASHINGTON - As the United States readies for a potential offensive on Iraq, Stars and Stripes is gearing up to cover the war and to distribute the daily newspaper to thousands of troops deployed throughout the Persian Gulf region.
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03/03/2003
Coalition Aircrews Target Iraqi No-Fly Zone Violations
WASHINGTON - While world attention focuses on the looming possibility of war with Iraq, American and coalition aircrews patrolling the Northern and Southern No-fly zones over that country face potential conflict with the Iraqi military every day.
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