Operations
Other Conflicts
Defense Policy / Programs
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Current Operations

• TASK FORCE IRONHORSE REPOSITIONS FORCES III Corps 22 Mar 2003 -- Task Force Ironhorse - built around the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Carson, Colo., and including other U.S.-based Army units - will reposition its equipment and troops where required to prepare for and support Operation Iraqi Freedom, currently underway in Iraq and other countries in the U.S. Central Command area of operations.
• NAVAIR Depot Aids Marines in Kuwait Navy NewStand 22 Mar 2003 -- "This is our job. It's what we do, and we're proud to do it," said Kayres Stockdale, a supervisor with Naval Air Systems Command Depot North Island Field Services. Stockdale led a seven-man team of volunteers to Kuwait to perform an airframe change on a Miramar-based Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet that left for a mission to the Middle East before having an airframe change.

Other Conflicts

Defense Policy / Programs

• Tons of knowledge resides in Air Force Web site AFPN 22 Mar 2003 -- Just about anything worth knowing about the Air Force, especially on the maintenance and acquisition side, can be found through a collaborative Web system called Knowledge Now.

• Statement by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson NATO Press Release 22 Mar 2003 -- Lord Robertson, the Secretary General of NATO has noted media reports stating that additional Turkish forces have today crossed into Northern Iraq.

News Reports

• ASIA PNEUMONIA VOA 22 Mar 2003 -- China's Minister of Health says doctors in southern China did not recognize that many pneumonia patients were suffering from a deadly new disease. The disease, now known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, could be linked to outbreaks in 13 countries