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The unit deployed from Camp Lejeune, N.C., in March. It is operating in Regional Command South under NATO's International Security Assistance Force.
Just to reemphasize what the secretary said, ... this deployment of Marines is seven months, and they're going to come out toward the end of the year, Mullen said.
As the drawdown of surge forces in Iraq continues, Gates said, the time may come to consider shifting more troops into Afghanistan. Despite his repeated calls on NATO to send more combat troops, the alliance has not come through with forces in the numbers needed and without restrictions on how they can be used.
We are still going to be looking at what the options are in terms of augmenting our presence during 2009, Gates said. (But) at this point, as far as I know, there's no specific planning going on along those lines.
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The congressionally mandated study looks to ensure the department is organized effectively and in ways to make it easier for the warfighter, a senior military official, speaking on background, said.
He and a senior defense official said the report will be finished in November and must be turned in to Congress before the fiscal 2010 budget is submitted in February.
The study is a joint effort by the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Congress specifically asked DoD to look at eliminating unnecessary duplication of capabilities and efforts across the services. However, the department and the Joint Staff will take the opportunity to examine six other specific issues: unmanned aerial systems, intratheater airlift, cyber operations, irregular warfare, internal department organization and responsibilities, and interagency roles and missions capabilities.
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John J. Young Jr., undersecretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, presented the Commander in Chief's Annual Awards for Installation Excellence.
The highlighted installations have distinguished themselves through effective leadership and management as well as being good stewards of tax dollars, Young said at the ceremony.
Installations are the backbone to our armed forces, Young said, noting that military posts provide training, billeting, maintenance, research and development, and other valuable facilities, and also serve as U.S. power-projection platforms.
Military installations also provide a safe place for our military members and their families to live, to work and play, Young said.
This year's awardees are: Fort A.P. Hill, Bowling Green, Va.; Marine Corps Base Camp P... Read Full Article...
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The Minerva Consortia, as it's called, would have the academic and intellectual communities focus on certain physical and social sciences, Thomas Mahnken, deputy assistant secretary of defense for policy planning, said in a teleconference with online journalists and bloggers.
We, as a Defense Department, don't have the expertise that we really need, Mahnken said. We, as a nation, need to cultivate that expertise.
While DoD already researches both basic and applied physical sciences, Mahnken said, research in social science needs beefing up.
Though some issues surround research of social sciences, Mahnken said, funding should not be one of them.
One of the virtues of social science research, as opposed to the physical science research, is it's relatively inexpensive, Mahnken said. This is ... Read Full Article...
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Reach Out and Read, a national nonprofit organization, uses several methods to promote early literacy as part of routine pediatric care, including having volunteers reading aloud in pediatric waiting rooms.
Its main approach, though, is to promote literacy during well-baby or well-child visits for children from ages 6 months through 4 years. Pediatric providers trained in the Reach Out and Read model offer age-appropriate tips to emphasize to parents and caretakers the importance of reading aloud to children. The parents also are encouraged to invent stories to go with pictures in the books.
During each of these visits, the child receives a new developmentally appropriate book to keep.
Reach Out and Read's programs are located in more than 3,700 hospitals and health centers in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Unit... Read Full Article...
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-- In Baghdad, coalition detained a wanted man who allegedly is part of al-Qaida operations north of the city. Another suspect also was detained.
-- Sixty miles west of Baghdad, coalition forces captured a wanted man linked to the movement of terrorists into Iraq.
-- Coalition forces detained 10 more suspected terrorists during operations in northwestern Iraq.
-- Coalition forces used Hellfire missiles to kill nine insurgents in New Baghdad.
-- Another insurgent was killed in Kadhamiyah when the roadside bomb he was emplacing detonated.
In yesterday's operations:
--In Adhamiyah, local Sons of Iraq citizen security group members found explosives that had been picked up accidentally by a sanitation truc... Read Full Article...
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The Defense Department is hoping to find new and even better ways to help the nation's warriors as it researches a field called regenerative medicine that would enable people to generate new skin and even grow new limbs, Army Col. (Dr.) Robert Vandre told online journalists and bloggers in a conference call yesterday.
Vandre, research area director for combat casualty care research at the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, has fielded the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine, a consortium that has the top scientists in the field working with the Army to drastically improve the quality of life of wounded servicemembers.
Statistics show that 82 percent of returning wounded servicemembers have extremity injuries, 33 percent have wounds to the face or head, and 5 to 6 percent have burns, Vandre said. He noted that thanks to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency... Read Full Article...
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