NASA Technical Reports Database Goes Dark March 21st, 2013 by Steven Aftergood This week NASA abruptly took the massive NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) offline. Though no explanation for the removal was offered, it appeared to be in response to concerns that export controlled inf...
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Pentagon Delays Sending Furlough Notices to Civilian Workforce American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 21, 2013 Pentagon officials have put off sending furlough notices to civilian employees until they’ve had a chance to analyze how pending legislation that would fund the fe...
Statement from Pentagon Press Secretary George Little on Civilian Employee Furlough Notices The Department of Defense has decided to delay the issuance of civilian employee furlough notices for approximately two weeks. This delay will allow the department to carefully analyze the impa...
-- The Air Force Academy's annual Independence Day celebration has been canceled due to budgetary concerns from sequestration, Academy officials announced March 20. Sequestration has forced the Academy to cut back on many activities it would normally support, said Academy Public Affai...
http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2013/03/military-congress-saves-tuition-assistance-for-all-but-coast-guard-032113w/ Congress saves TA for all but Coast Guard By Rick Maze - Staff writer Posted : Thursday Mar 21, 2013 11:25:40 EDT Congress has voted to restore the military’s tuition ...
F-16’s onderscheppen Russische bommenwerpers 21 maart 2013, 15.59 uur Een duo Nederlandse F-16´s is vanmiddag vanaf Vliegbasis Leeuwarden opgestegen om 2 Russische bommenwerpers te onderscheppen. De Russische vliegtuigen, van het type TU-95 Bear kwamen het Nederlands verantwoordelijkh...
The US State Department and the United Nations added Ansar Dine, a Mali terrorist group with close ties to al Qaeda, to their lists of Foreign Terrorist Organizations. Today's designations follow the addition of the group's emir, Iyad ag Ghali, to the US and UN's lists of global terro...
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Preparing to testify before the House Armed Services Committee's Subcommittee on Military Personnel Thursday, March 21, 2013, at the U.S. Capitol are, left to right, Jacqueline Garrick, acting director of the DOD's Defense Suicide Prevention Office; Lt. Gen. Howard B. Bromberg, Army D...
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In a scathing letter sent to CBS, Vietnam War veteran and American Legion National Commander James E. Koutz called for the Tiffany Network to apologize for "its disgraceful slap-in-the face administered to American war heroes" during a prime time broadcast Sunday night. "The show is c...
Air Force issues a formal fantasy football RFI By Michael Hoffman Thursday, March 21st, 2013 11:17 am Posted in Air This is a pretty good example of why some people might get frustrated when the service chiefs go before Congress and use words like devastation and destruction when aske...
Last night, jihadists in northern Mali launched a complex suicide assault against an airport in Timbuktu. French and Malian troops repelled the attack, and claimed to have killed 10 of the 30 fighters involved in the raid, according to Reuters . The suicide bomber targeted a checkpoin...
Modesto, California, Community Based Outpatient Clinic by Hans Petersen, VA staff writer Thursday, March 21, 2013 Over 800 Sites Save Veterans Time and Travel In the early 1990s, the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) began developing a strategy to expand its capacity to provide out...
http://www.armytimes.com/news/2013/03/military-congress-saves-tuition-assistance-for-all-but-coast-guard-032113w/ Congress saves TA for all but Coast Guard By Rick Maze - Staff writer Posted : Thursday Mar 21, 2013 11:25:40 EDT Congress has voted to restore the military’s tuition assi...
Over the past thirty years, dozens of indiscriminate mass shootings in America have resulted in 547 deaths and an additional 476 injured victims, according to a new tabulation by the Congressional Research Service. The new CRS report examines the phenomenon of mass shootings, like the...
NATO’s essential purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of its members through political and military means. POLITICAL - NATO promotes democratic values and encourages consultation and cooperation on defence and security issues to build trust and, in the long run, prevent co...
Tunisian salafist jihadists announced their allegiance to al-Qaeda this week, accepting the group's invitation to wage a holy war. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's call on Sunday (March 17th) to fight the French, westerners, secularists and other so-called "enemies" was welcomed by T...
National Guard Kicks Off ’Joining Community Forces’ By By Army Sgt. Darron Salzer National Guard Bureau WILMINGTON, Del., March 21, 2013 The National Guard has kicked off a new effort to support service members, veterans and their families at the community level. Army Brig. Gen. Mar...
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Veteran reservist nurse and grandmother of five Major Marie Semple, of 204 Field Hospital, is considering retirement from frontline duties at the age of 55 upon finishing her third tour. The experienced sister of wards from Ballymena in Northern Ireland joined in 2003 at the age of 43...
Southcom Chief: Iran Working to Expand Influence in Latin America By Nick Simeone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, March 20, 2013 U.S. Southern Command’s top officer told Congress today that Iran is actively working to expand its presence in Latin America to cultivate allie...