LONDON, UK – 31st Jan­u­ary 2011 — Indus­try-lead­­ing glob­al design­er and man­u­fac­tur­er of tac­ti­cal mil­i­tary trucks and armoured wheeled vehi­cles, Oshkosh Defence will be show­cas­ing their M-ATV vehi­cle capa­bil­i­ties at Inter­na­tion­al Armoured Vehi­cles Exhi­bi­tion, tak­ingWeit­er­lesen…

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2011 — The Defense and Ener­gy depart­ments are work­ing under a gov­­ern­­ment-to-gov­­ern­­ment agree­ment signed Jan. 19 with Chi­na to estab­lish a region­al cen­ter of excel­lence there for nuclear secu­ri­ty, a Pen­ta­gon offi­cialWeit­er­lesen…

Five ships with approx­i­mate­ly 600 sailors and offi­cers par­tic­i­pat­ing depart­ed Syd­ney Har­bour this morn­ing to com­mence Navy’s lat­est train­ing pro­gram, Exer­cise Tri­ton Storm.

State­ment by the EU High Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Cather­ine Ash­ton on Tunisia Cather­ine Ash­ton, the High Rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Union for For­eign Affairs and Secu­ri­ty Pol­i­cy and Vice-Pres­i­­dent of the Com­mis­sion, made the fol­low­ing state­ment today :Weit­er­lesen…

OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb., Jan. 28, 2011 — Air Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton passed the flag of U.S. Strate­gic Com­mand to Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler today, giv­ing the nation’s nuclear deter­rentWeit­er­lesen…

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2011 — Inter­na­tion­al Secu­ri­ty Assis­tance Force offi­cials joined Afghan Pres­i­dent Hamid Karzai in con­demn­ing a sui­­cide-bomb attack that killed sev­er­al civil­ians in the country’s cap­i­tal of Kab­ul, mil­i­tary offi­cials report­ed.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28, 2011 — The plan to end the ban on gay men and les­bians serv­ing open­ly in the mil­i­tary is pro­gress­ing quick­ly, senior Defense Depart­ment offi­cials said here today.

NAVY Com­pos­ite Engi­neer­ing Inc.*, Sacra­men­to, Calif., is being award­ed a $31,461,842 cost-plus-incen­­tive-fee con­tract for the design, devel­op­ment, inte­gra­tion and test of the sub­son­ic aer­i­al tar­get (SSAT). Work will be per­formed in Roseville, Calif. (58 per­cent),Weit­er­lesen…

BETHESDA, Md., Jan. 27, 2011 — In the list of prob­lems that can con­front ser­vice mem­bers after a com­bat deploy­ment, few can be hard­er to talk about or more dev­as­tat­ing than the inabil­i­ty to resumeWeit­er­lesen…

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2011 — A new whole-of-gov­­ern­­ment approach will bring the fed­er­al government’s vast reach to help mil­lions of ser­vice mem­bers and their fam­i­lies, a senior Defense Depart­ment offi­cial said yes­ter­day.

This week the Army, Navy and Marine Corps announced a decrease in acti­vat­ed reservists, while the Air Force and Coast Guard announced an increase. The net col­lec­tive result is 1,695 few­er reservists acti­vat­ed than lastWeit­er­lesen…

WASHINGTON — Col­lab­o­ra­tion is at the heart of the government’s new mil­i­tary fam­i­ly sup­port direc­tive and is the key to sup­port­ing ser­vice mem­bers and their fam­i­lies in the months and years ahead, a Defense Depart­mentWeit­er­lesen…

PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan — The grave­yard shift requires wak­ing while oth­ers are leav­ing work, work­ing while oth­ers sleep and sleep­ing while the world moves through the nor­mal hus­tle and bus­tle of its day. Army 1stWeit­er­lesen…

WASHINGTON — Deb­o­rah and I attend­ed a Jan. 24 White House event host­ed by the Pres­i­dent and First Lady announc­ing an excit­ing new effort that renews and enhances our Nation’s com­mit­ment to our mil­i­tary fam­i­lies.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2011 — A senior Navy offi­cial yes­ter­day crit­i­cized a major “think tank” for its out­look on the devel­op­ment of alter­na­tive fuel tech­nolo­gies and mar­kets. Tom Hicks, deputy assis­tant sec­re­tary of the NavyWeit­er­lesen…

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2011 — A new con­cus­sion care pro­gram being field­ed by the Marine Corps in Afghanistan is giv­ing psy­chi­a­trists, physi­cians and even chap­lains and sergeants a bet­ter way to treat those with theWeit­er­lesen…