Monat: Juni 2011

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2011 — The rela­tion­ship between the Unit­ed States and South Korea has nev­er been stronger, the com­man­der of U.S. Forces Korea said …

MCLEAN, Va., June 29, 2011 — The par­ents of a Marine Corps sergeant killed in Afghanistan accept­ed a posthu­mous Nation­al Intel­li­gence Medal for Val­or on …

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 29, 2011 — The slug­gish growth of the econ­o­my will make it dif­fi­cult to main­tain cur­rent defense fund­ing, the Defense Department’s chief …

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2011 — Nations and orga­ni­za­tions of all kinds must join togeth­er to take on the chal­lenges posed by a grow­ing num­ber of …

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 29, 2011 — The Defense Department’s bud­get land­scape is chang­ing, but the logis­tics com­mu­ni­ty must con­tin­ue pro­vid­ing U.S. troops the best pos­si­ble …

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2011 — Sec­re­tary of Defense Robert M. Gates has sent a mes­sage to every post, ship, base and instal­la­tion thank­ing ser­vice mem­bers …

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2011 — Afghanistan Pres­i­dent Hamid Karzai, the country’s Min­istry of the Inte­ri­or, and the Inter­na­tion­al Secu­ri­ty Assis­tance Force joint­ly con­demned yesterday’s insur­gent …

COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 29, 2011 — Per­sis­tent glob­al con­flict cou­pled with efforts to reduce the nation’s $14 tril­lion debt will require the entire Defense Depart­ment …

ARMY                  Smiths Detec­tion, Edge­wood, Md., was award­ed a $248,512,500 firm-fixed-price mul­ti­ple award task order con­tract, between sev­en con­trac­tors, for the pro­cure­ment of non-intru­­sive inspec­tion …

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2011 — Army Gen. James D. Thur­man told the Sen­ate Armed Ser­vices Com­mit­tee that he would work to strength­en the U.S.-South Korea …

WASHINGTON — Recruit­ing and reten­tion remain steadi­ly on track through­out the mil­i­tary ser­vices, with every com­po­nent report­ing strong year-to-date num­bers through May and full con­fi­dence …

Speech by Min­is­ter for Defence Stephen Smith MP Defence and Indus­try Con­fer­ence 2011 Open­ing Address Con­ven­tion Cen­tre, Ade­laide Wednes­day 29 June 2011 Thank you Mark …

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2011 — If he becomes the new com­man­der of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Marine Corps Lt. Gen. John R. Allen …

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2011 — Amer­i­cans con­tin­ue to express high con­fi­dence in the armed forces, with more than three-quar­ters of those sur­veyed in a recent …

BETHESDA, Md., June 27, 2011 — Just two months remain before about 150 inpa­tients at Wal­ter Reed Army Med­ical Cen­ter in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., many of …

WASHINGTON, June 28, 2011 — A com­bined Afghan and coali­tion secu­ri­ty force dis­cov­ered 992 pounds of mar­i­jua­na in the Pan­jwa’i dis­trict of Afghanistan’s Kan­da­har province …

NAVY             The Navy is award­ing inde­f­i­nite-deliv­­ery/in­de­f­i­nite-quan­ti­­ty mul­ti­ple award con­tracts to 333 con­trac­tors that will pro­vide for their com­pe­ti­tion for ser­vice …